Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Job Description

Posted 9 months ago

• The API team is responsible for building and maintaining all aspects of the Unsplash backend, including: all user facing features, search infrastructure, caching, database performance, experimentation framework, and contributor statistics. More here.
• Ruby on Rails API handling 10B+ requests per month, powering 10,000+ products including unsplash.com, Medium, Buzzfeed, Squarespace, Facebook, Google, Wix, more: https://unsplash.com/developers
• Current team of 4 Ruby engineers, 4 web engineers, 1 mobile engineer, 1 data engineer, shipping features to 25M monthly active users, 70M+ monthly API users.

• Make key decisions on architecture, infrastructure, patterns, etc. for new systems and iterations of current systems
• Support and design the technical implementation of the visual search engine, recommendations, and related content algorithms
• Support scaling of API platform to 100B+ requests per month

• 2+ years experience working with a large Ruby on Rails codebase
• 2+ years experience working on a high-traffic Ruby on Rails site
• Experience working with search systems and Elasticsearch

• Pragmatism
• Good at communicating asynchronously via text
• Organized
• Ships early and often
• Self motivated