Senior Ruby Engineer - Remote Europe

Published on April 13, 2023

A friendly place for authors to learn, create and market the best indie booksWe're a community of 1,000,000 authors and freelance publishing professionals. We help authors find top editors, designers and marketers: reedsy.comAnd we're fully remote! ⛰ Read about our co-founder Matt spending 3 months living and working from the Alps: businessinsider.com/i-live-and-work-in-my-car-heres-how-2018-5. And a bit more about how we started here: starterstory.com/book-publishing-services-marketplace.

Europe-based applicants only
About Reedsy
We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer.
We’ve grown to a community of 1,000,000 authors and over 3,000 freelancers in just a few short years, while picking up a number of industry awards along the way 🏆
Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!
Responsibilities 
We have built a number of products at Reedsy, including a marketplace (https://reedsy.com) and a book discovery platform (https://reedsy.com/discovery). We're currently building a new authentication app and an email marketing tool. We have a number of new features in the pipeline for each of those and we need your help!
Here's what you'll be doing:
  • Architect and develop highly scalable web applications;
  • Work closely with our designers and engineers to design, build, and ship new features from scratch;
  • Evaluate and improve the performance, durability, and security of applications in production;
  • Take ownership for your tasks and see features through from start to finish;
  • Build RESTful APIs.
Requirements
  • 5+ years with Ruby on Rails at production level
  • Experience with SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis) databases
  • Unit tests (RSpec) and QA testing tools and techniques
  • Git advanced knowledge
  • Strong emphasis with Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
  • Perfectly fluent in English, great communication skills
  • Experience working remotely
Bonus points
  • Experience with Elasticsearch
  • Experience with deployment automation tools
  • A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor
Benefits
  • Work from home;
  • Paid paternal and maternal leave; 
  • Reedski, our annual ski trip.
Salary range:
€60k – €100k