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Senior Backend Engineer (New Business)

1 month ago
Europe
Full-time
Senior
Backend Engineer
Software Development
Docker GraphQL Kafka Kubernetes Ruby Ruby on Rails SQL
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Toptal

Toptal

Toptal is a curated talent marketplace connecting freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, product managers, and project managers with businesses globally. With a focus on top 3% talent in software engineering, design, and finance, To...

Construction & Engineering
5K-10K
Founded 2010
$4M raised
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Description

  • Write elegant, efficient, testable Ruby code that is easy to maintain and debug.
  • Cover code with tests, perform manual testing of features, and review colleagues’ work.
  • Work on the infrastructure side of the project in collaboration with Infrastructure Engineers.
  • Continuously improve team processes, share ideas, communicate status, and track progress.
  • Mentor team members, provide feedback, and support ongoing professional growth.
  • Learn new concepts and technologies and help evaluate and adopt them.
  • Design, develop, document, analyze, create, test, or modify computer- and cloud-based systems and programs.
  • Contribute to product development, software planning, maintenance, and codebase improvements.
  • Lead technical initiatives and drive improvements to the codebase and team processes.
  • Support onboarding and mentorship for new team members over time.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of web development experience with Ruby/Rails.
  • 5 years of experience with SQL databases.
  • Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, automated software testing, and essential development/testing methodologies.
  • Knowledge of GraphQL and Kafka is preferred but not required.
  • Ability to evaluate tradeoffs across user impact, failure tolerance, maintainability, implementation time, security, and performance.
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle varied challenges, deadlines, and contacts.
  • Genuine interest in technology and openness to trying new things.
  • Ability to solve complex problems by considering multiple solutions and choosing the best course of action.
  • Must be a world-class individual contributor; this is not a managerial role.
  • Remote work requires resumes and communication in English.
  • No visa sponsorship or assistance is provided.

Benefits

  • Full-time remote position.
  • Work with a global fully remote workforce.
  • Opportunity to develop new features and improve an existing production codebase.
  • Exposure to modern technologies including Ruby, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, GraphQL, ML models, and OpenAI.
  • Opportunity to lead technical initiatives and mentor others as you grow.

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