Back End Developer (Ruby)
Published on September 14, 2024
Sensor Tower, named one of "The 50 San Francisco Tech Companies You Should Know in 2020" is a market-leading competitive intelligence solution in the mobile app market. As a globally distributed team that has hit profitability with minimal funding ($1 million seed round), we attribute our success to both our innovative & trusted product and our talented employees. We put a great emphasis on hiring self-starters that are both driven and humble enough to recognize that there is always more to learn and more that each of us can do on our mission of being the Trusted Source of Mobile Insights.
Public companies like DocuSign and Expedia, as well as fast-growing startups like Hotel Tonight, Ticketmaster, and Robinhood turn to Sensor Tower to make key business decisions. Our insights are cited by the world's leading news and finance publications, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Washington Post, and Reuters.
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About this role:
From efficiently scaling database operations to supporting the growing amount of data (tens of terabytes), we are looking for engineers that have the creativity and skills to gather meaningful data and insights.
As an engineer at Sensor Tower, you will make sure we're building the best possible products and features to support our users. In our lean and flat organization, you will also have a meaningful say in what and how we build out all aspects of our product.
A Day in the Life:
Interviewee: Senior Software Engineer - Sasha Elhovenko
What does your day to day look like working as a Software Engineer?
I work with tons of data and the volume of this data is constantly increasing. My job is to make sure our customers can access it as quickly as possible and provide them convenient tools for data consumption.
How do you collaborate with your team as a remote employee?
Sensor Tower has a great atmosphere of a distributed team. I like to pair with my colleagues remotely to combine our knowledge in order to get the job done efficiently.
- Participate in the full development life cycle, including design, implementation, quality polish, and release.
- Leverage your strengths and interests to work on full feature implementation from the front end, to the API, all the way to the back end.
- Develop and optimize high performance data aggregation and analysis pipelines at scale.
- Perform code reviews, and suggest improvements to tools and processes.
- 3+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Meaningful github contributions and other coding samples.
- Strong foundation in programming, algorithms, and software application design.
- Solid understanding of RESTful systems and the principles of good API design.
- You have an understanding of the basics of cloud environments, and ideally you’ve had some exposure to AWS.
- Required: Ruby on Rails (or Python and willing to learn Ruby on Rails).
- Nice to have: Clickhouse, MongoDB, Sidekiq, TypeScript, React.js, ES6.
Read more about some of our Technical challenges here (written by members of our engineering team): https://sensortower.com/blog/speeding-up-the-backend-with-graph-theory
About Sensor Tower
Sensor Tower cultivates responsibly sourced market intelligence that provides visibility into the trends shaping the global digital economy. Our customers use these insights to help them make better business decisions.
Why Sensor Tower?
Our flexible work environment allows employees to live in greater connection with the people, places, and activities they love!
Our benefits for full-time positions include:
- Flexible time off so employees can shape their time away from work.
- Health and wellness stipend to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle through physical and mental fitness.
- Monthly internet stipend and a one-time $500 home office stipend.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, and veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. If you have a disability or special need, please do not hesitate to let us know and we'll do our best to accommodate.