Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Remote - Anywhere Full Time

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Jobandtalent is the world's leading digital temp staffing marketplace. Our on-demand staffing platform aims to tear down all the barriers to job search and hiring, and make the increasing flexibility of the labour market beneficial for businesses and workers alike. We believe we can play a key role in reducing unemployment and putting workers in control of their livelihoods, while also giving businesses a platform to grow and flourish.

At the heart of our Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform is our proprietary job matching technology which connects businesses and job-seekers in record time. Together with integrated messaging, scheduling, contract-signing and payroll, Jobandtalent radically simplifies hiring while protecting all parties from legal risk.

To date, we have served over 10M job seekers and 150K businesses across 6 countries in Europe and the Americas, and have ambitious plans for further expansion.

You will be working in one of our product teams inside the Backend guild to design and implement real world staffing problems solutions in a Service Oriented Architecture platform. 

Company KPIs drive the prioritization of features you will build using your well known software engineering best practices to deliver maintainable and scalable code on-time.

Our current more common stack is Rails 6.0 with Postgresql as RDBS, RabbitMQ as message bus provider, and Redis with sidekiq for async processing. But you will be able to code in different Rails versions, Elixir and Javascript with React. All our services are containerized with docker and all our real production platform is simulated in development using this technology.

 

Requirements and Skills:

 

  • 5+ years of software development experience, preferably web and API development. At least 2+ years of experience building Ruby/Ruby on Rails, customer-facing applications
  • Strong entrepreneurial spirit, understanding problems and looking for solutions out of the box
  • A thirst for analyzing key business metrics & qualitative feedback
  • A hands-on approach to understanding and tackling business challenges
  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies (inc. Scrum, Kanban, …) & working with a Design team
  • BA/BS or higher in computer science or equivalent work experience
  • You have worked on front-end web technologies (i.e. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, React, Vue or Angular), and large scale apps experience is a big plus for us.
  • You're a programming language polyglot and learn new languages and tools for fun and profit, but always choosing the right tool for the job (we like Ruby, Elixir, Python, Go, Scala, Rust, …)
  • You know your way through Linux servers and app deployments
  • Strong RDBMs knowledge (query analysis, database transactions, …) and some No-SQL experience (Redis).
  • Experience working with distributed systems.
  • You master git and the GitHub workflow, which we use extensively at jobandtalent
  • Fluent in English

 

  • Ownership of projects with direct impact on the product.
  • Salary in the 40k-60k range (wide range, depending on experience).
  • Transparent Equity package.
  • Discount on Health insurance.
  • A yearly budget for Conferences/meetup/self-learning.
  • The opportunity to either work remotely or in our offices in Madrid and Barcelona.
  • Free fruit, free coffee and free lunch on Fridays!
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