Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails - Developer Experience & Architecture)
Published on October 01, 2024
Hivebrite is one of the first Paris start-ups listed in seedtable.com. They help other organizations foster stronger bonds with, and between, their members and constituents. It was launched in 2015 and now has over 400 clients in over 40 countries. On a daily basis, they develop a product that automatises all activities connected with creating, maintaining and increasing community members' engagement. They dedicate their solutions for 4 sectors (all B2B): educational (mostly alumni from universities), connected with professional networks (workers), corporate alumni and non-profit organisations (supproters around the case). There are "all the features you need, and more".
Tech-stack: Ruby 2.6, Rails 5.2/6, Golang, JavaScript/ES6, React.js 16.9, Backbone.js, PostgreSQL, Microservices, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker.
Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create impactful communities.
Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Boeing, the Obama Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy, the British Heart Foundation, the Imperial College London, the P&G Alumni France, and Le Wagon Alumni.
We employ over 170 people across our entities in Paris, New York, the UK, and Sydney, and 30+ nationalities are represented in our team! 🌍
At Hivebrite, we believe in the importance of balancing your work commitments and personal life. You’re able to have a real impact on meaningful communities while prioritizing your personal life and goals. Our work policy encourages a healthy work-life harmony with a flexible schedule.
We also have many initiatives to keep our global team connected, offering opportunities to meet and socialize with team members virtually and in-person! 👋
For these reasons, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France last year! 🏆
Jump aboard, and join the hive! 🚀
🌟 YOUR ROLE WILL BE
- Own & maintain critical components and infrastructure of the platform
- Maintain and develop tools/scripts to improve developer experience (CI/CD pipelines, local dev environment)
- Contribute to performance optimization, scalability, security across the platform
- Responsibilities span across coding, infrastructure, and architecture
🌟 YOUR MISSION WILL BE
- Practice disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing efficiency code).
- Develop integrations with 3rd party software programs (Webhooks, API, deep integrations).
- Design, develop, test and implement new product features.
- Try new things ! POC is a cool word :)
- Be a leader on sharing knowledge. Animate and debate during architecture reviews, find a common ground and deliver the solution.
🌟 YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF
- 6+ years of programming experience in Ruby 🚂
- Programming experience in Golang and Python is also a big plus
- Experience working on large-scale backend systems
- Track record of designing and implementing complex and scalable software services
- Experience in architecting, deploying and operating asynchronous work queues, high-volume storage systems, and highthroughput systems
- Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism
- Docker has no secret for you
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment
- You have a great oral and written communication in English
🌟 RECRUITMENT PROCESS
- Meet Ruben, our Tech Recruiter, for a first video-call to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions (60 mins).
- Meeting with an Engineering Manager to discuss performance issues, product-driven approach and some RoR patterns (60 mins).
- Meet 2 Staff Engineers to discuss around a technical architecture review exercise (90 mins).
- Meet Tarek, our CPTO, to talk about your long-term involvement with Hivebrite (60 mins).
🌟HIVEBRITE'S PERKS & BENEFITS:
Work-Life balance:
- Support for mental health via Moka Care (sessions paid by Hivebrite, collective sophrology sessions, etc.) 💆
- A Gymlib access for you to practice any physical activity you want 💪
- A really flexible remote policy detailed here 🏡
- Around two weeks of RTT to enjoy more time off with your friends and familly 🏝
- Paid leaves for parents with sick kids 🤒
- Nomad days policy (work from almost anywhere you'd like, up to 12 weeks per year, at once or throughout the year) - check out the full policy here ✈️
Office life:
- International team - you will easily hear 3 different languages in the same conversation 🌍
- Morning's office in the center of Paris with a rooftop just for us!
- Squads days for our engineering team - two days per month we meet at the office 💡
- Internal mobility and professional training to support your career 🚀
- Check out our instagram page here to discover our team and this page, to know more about us 📷
- Your Employee Journey detailed here 🍃
On the financial side:
- Of course, all the mandatory benefits, but with the best companies to support you (Alan, lunch vouchers with Swile, etc.)
- CSE advantages with Swile 🎁
- A competitive salary package - we constantly ensure that we're aligned with the market 🤝
- A 500€ remote equipment allowance and a work-from-home starter kit (desk, chair, etc…) 🖥️
- The latest Apple’s equipment 🍏