Senior Back End Software Engineer - Ruby

We have a remote-first culture and this position can be based anywhere from Australia or New Zealand. This role can be fully remote or a hybrid if you are in Melbourne. We encourage you to work in the way that best suits you.

About the opportunity

How you can help make a better world of work.

We are looking for a Senior Ruby Engineer to join our newly spun up Recognition team. If you are experienced in driving technical change and excited by building tools and establishing patterns that amplify other engineers, then we'd love to speak with you. As part of this team, you will play an instrumental part in mentoring the Back End Engineers toward writing a modern, event sourced codebase.

In part of this team of amazing humans, 

You will 

• Write clean, scalable, testable code
• Share knowledge from your team with other engineers via documentation
• Collaborate with other teams to define specifications for new events we want to consume
• Coach other experienced developers in the team, toward writing clean event based code

You have

• Experience with Ruby, or other modern programming fundamentals
• Experience with or knowledge of distributed systems and/or Kafka 
• Data modelling skills
• A growth mindset - you’re keen to learn from those around you and want to share your knowledge as well.
• Collaboration - our teams are cross functional and you’ll be working with other engineers, delivery leads and product managers to deliver great outcomes together.

Optional

• Experience/knowledge of AWS
• Experience with or knowledge of distributed systems and/or Kafka 
• Experience in a modern simplified Ruby framework Hanami, https://hanamirb.org/

Please keep reading!

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply for roles unless they meet all the criteria — unlike majority candidates that meet significantly fewer of the requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re at all interested: we’d love to learn how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

We believe that inclusive businesses are better, not only for company performance, but for the world. We have a strong commitment to anti-racism and lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). View our current commitments to anti-racism.

We ensure you have the tools and support you need to thrive, both inside and outside of work:

• A MacBook — for you to do great work where it suits you
• Share options — it’s important to us that everyone is an owner and can share in our success
• Excellent parental leave and in-work support program — for those starting or growing their family
• Flexible working arrangements — wherever we can we aim to make work support the life you want to lead
• Fun and inclusive digital and (in the future) in-person events

And most importantly: an opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives.

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