Sr. Back-End Software Engineer - Ruby/Rails

Remote - US Full Time Senior

Published on October 22, 2024

Knowde is the leading marketplace for ingredients, polymers, and chemistry. For the first time ever, R&D teams and buyers can search, learn, engage, sample, quote and purchase from every major producer on earth – all in one place. Knowde provides chemical producers the technology required to move online quickly and meet the new needs of customers who want a better online buying experience.

Raw material suppliers and their customers are the hidden innovators behind the end-products we rely on every day. Chemistry is used to make every physical good on earth, including the products we love from Tesla, Glossier, Apple, Nike, 3M and J&J.

However, the largest and most impactful industry in the world is still doing business the same way it did 100 years ago.

Until now.

The industry is the building blocks of the entire world.

15,000+ suppliers provide every single ingredient, polymer and chemistry that make up every physical product in existence. Yet, the expansive world of chemistry had gone largely unorganized and remained inaccessible to many.

The industry craved a single destination to efficiently conduct research, compare and purchase raw materials without the hassle of scouring thousands of websites, calling and emailing sales reps and attending costly in-person trade shows. Welcome to Knowde.

About Knowde
Knowde is a global software company digitally transforming the $5 trillion chemical industry by solving the root problem holding the industry back: organizing and digitizing product data. Knowde provides touchless product master data and a suite of purpose-built, integrated tools to accelerate digital transformation, helping Chemical Industry suppliers and distributors unleash the hidden power of their product information and get it into the hands of the people who drive value — sales, regulatory, supply chain and, of course, their customers. More than 8,000 of the world's largest suppliers and distributors use Knowde to accelerate their digital transformation and drive business growth.
We’ve raised over $100M from the world’s leading investors, including Sequoia Capital and Coatue, to realize our vision.
Come Join Us!
Knowde is looking to add an immensely talented Senior Backend Developer to join our Engineering team. As one of the founding engineers, you will help us invent, design, refine, and deliver the products that will enable this digital transformation. The products we will create together simply do not exist today. This is your chance to fundamentally affect how product innovation occurs globally across industries.
What You’ll Be Doing
  • As a small, remote team you’ll be empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and the future of the product.
  • Be a trailblazer by contributing to the build of a complex ecommerce marketplace, the first of its kind in the Chemicals space.
  • Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality.
  • Own your projects from software design to implementation and deployment.
  • Take pride in your work by implementing cutting-edge technologies and writing state-of-the-art code.
  • Emphasize simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate.
What You Should Have
  • 5+ years experience building highly scalable Ruby on Rails applications
  • Expert level knowledge of Ruby. 
  • Ability to take initiatives from requirements to deployment
  • Ability to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor
  • Ability to work and collaborate within distributed, multidisciplinary teams
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills
  • High bar for quality and a phenomenal attention to detail
  • Experience with DevOps, cloud infrastructure services (AWS/GCP), and containerization (Docker)
  • Experience managing release activities
  • A passion for CI/CD pipelines
  • Ability to design and build scalable, high-availability mission-critical systems and APIs
Our Stack
  • Ruby on Rails
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL / Elasticsearch / Redis / S3
  • React / Angular / TypeScript on frontend
Our Perks & Benefits
  • We offer “Knerds” a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans, designed to fit you and your family’s needs
  • 401K program to help you invest in your future
  • Education & learning stipend for personal growth and development
  • Fully remote position
  • Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend
  • Paid parental leave to support you and your family
We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Knowde upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.
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