Backend Engineer - Ruby on Rails
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Zappi helps global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth, shape new product development, and enhance their advertising and branding efforts. We help them predict success and disrupt their industriesThe time available to businesses for decision-making has decreased, while consumers’ choice of products and their exposure to ads is growing. In the absence of preemptive research, 85% of products fail in their first year. Zappi puts the consumer at the heart of all your business decisions and eliminates risk. - Zappi automation makes data collection and modeling faster, more economical, and easier- Zappi reporting suite yields deeper insights, compounding its learning through analytics features and centralized data - Zappi technology learns the way your experts interpret data, allowing for scaled expertise globally
The Fieldwork team
The Fieldwork team works to ensure we source the right consumers to answer our surveys and contribute towards our research. The team constructs projects and communicates the project requirements to 3rd party providers through direct API integrations. The team is continuously working towards innovative ways to better optimise our project management processes through automation. They also provide tools and services to support our internal functions.
In order to achieve their goals, each team works in close partnership with our design and research functions and leans on learnings from customer’s experiences. Each team consists of Javascript and Ruby developers working with React talking to Rails API services via REST. You will work closely with other engineering teams, building systems which can describe, manage and execute audiences in a scalable and meaningful way. You will work in an engineering function that practises continuous integration and deploys to production multiple times per day on autoscaling Kubernetes cluster running on AWS.
Who we’re hiring
- You will need to be able to demonstrate the characteristics of an experienced engineer (this is generally more than 2 years experience)
- You are able to demonstrate how you add value to a team as an intermediate engineer, and what you expect from a high performing team
- You have transferable technical experience. We don’t require deep expertise in our tech stack if you can demonstrate your ability to learn new technologies
- You have the right to work in the location advertised or in any of our supported remote working countries
What do the first 30,60,90 days look like?
In your first 30 days you’ll take part in our Zappi 101 engineering onboarding where you’ll get familiar with our business and engineering domains, you’ll meet your buddy, team and manager, and work towards your first code change. Over the next 60 days you’ll have established a pattern of impactful contributions to our codebases, execute a collaborative code/system design, begin influencing the direction of the team and contributing to team ceremonies (e.g planning).
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
- Salary range R660,000-R1,044,000 per annum + equity and bonus. Salaries are benchmarked annually.
- Unlimited holidays – we want well rested and motivated teams so encourage people to take plenty of time off. We don’t cap your allowance but do set a minimum of at least 20 days per year plus national holidays.
- Private medical healthcare cover
- Group risk, life & disability contributions
- Flexible working arrangements, including remote (unless otherwise specified)
- Thoughtfully designed offices to support both individual work and collaboration without interrupting others.
- Support setting up your home office, if appropriate (chair + desk, etc)
- Wellbeing benefits such as free yoga and access to trained therapists / counsellors
- Tailored personal development through training allowances, coaching, mentorship and career frameworks.
Why join us?
We’ve been recognized as one of the hottest martech companies in 2022 by Business Insider and named Best Place to Work by Quirk’s Media for our engaging and inclusive workplace culture. We’re committed to both people and the planet.
Our belief in inclusion means we’re building an organisation of diverse individuals and helping brands eliminate cultural presumptions in their research. Read our Diversity Manifesto here.
We are a values and behaviours driven business and believe that Trust, Truth, Ownership, Ambition and Humility describe Zappi employees on our best day. This is how we strive to show up for our customers, for each other and for our communities.
Earning B Corp certification assures us we’re on the right track and have structures in place to become the business we want to be.
Our commitment to minimise our impact on the environment means being honest with ourselves and transparent with you—about everything from carbon emissions to tree-planting initiatives. We achieved our goal of becoming Net Zero in 2021!
Zappi Company Culture Highlights
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Women 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Work-Life Balance 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Compensation 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Women 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Diversity 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Culture 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Happiness 2022
- Winner of Newsweek’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK 2022
Check out what our current employees have to say about us on Comparably
Equal Opportunity
Zappi is an equal opportunity employer; our diversity is a major strength. We maintain a constant dialogue with our teams and wider communities about how we can become a more inclusive place to work.