Senior Backend Developer

Job Description

Posted 3 months ago

About the job

We are Europe’s largest airlines’ innovation unit and work on a variety of innovative projects from new ways of booking flights to the future of climate-neutral flying.

As a senior developer, you are someone who can see projects through from beginning to end, coach others, and self-manage. We’re looking for an eager person who can bring our team to the next level with their technical knowledge, people skills, and real-world experience.

On the technical side, extensive experience building high-traffic websites using Ruby and Ruby on Rails is a hard requirement. Experience with DevOps (AWS services, Terraform) is a plus but not required.

The Stack

Ruby on Rails backend we’re experimenting with Sorbet

Open API Specs for contract testing

Postgres

Terraform

Bonus: Amazon Web Services (RDS, ECS, Lambda, Cloudwatch)

Bonus: TypeScript, React/Vue

How we work

Our biweekly sprint planning call is our only regular meeting

For complex features, write a design doc before coding

All code goes through code review, reviews are split out evenly across the team

A dedicated “runner” fields ad-hoc requests and bug reports each week, so that everyone else can focus

We use Tuple for pair programming

About you

### Technical Skills Experience

You’ve built complex apps in a Ruby on Rails + modern frontend stack before, with a codebase optimized for performance and scale

You’ve designed shipped large applications with many components and data structures

You have a proven ability to design interfaces that stand the test of time, showing anticipation of future product changes

You have experience integrating complex third party APIs

You are able to successfully refactor existing code and get rid of tech debt without regressions

Personality

You are able to handle ambiguity, and can push projects forward even when there is not a clear best path

You see things through from start to finish

You can manage yourself but you also work well with others

A good sense of humor and a great team player

Fluent English and an excellent communicator

Compensation

This is a full-time position and you can work from anywhere within ±6 hours of CET. The salary range is between $90 - 120k.

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