Software Engineer (Back End)

Who we are:
CityBase supplies government agencies and utility companies with technology to make it easier for their constituents and customers to find, apply, and pay for public services. Our unified online presence and physical kiosk solutions democratizes access to services for constituents who may or may not have access to a computer or mobile device.
Engineering @ CityBase
We are remote-first and have team members throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in our headquarters in downtown Chicago. We value our collaborative, team-first culture which supports a healthy work-life balance.
At CityBase we are organized into cross functional teams and use an agile methodology (Scrum) with a two week sprint. While we collaborate during design phases and sometimes utilize pair programming, we often work independently when coding. We maintain high standards through peer reviews and automated testing. Using ArgoCD and Kubernetes, we are able to quickly spin up an environment to validate our work and deploy on demand.
Who you are:

• Dedicated team player with strong interpersonal skills, values humility and respects others
• Lifelong commitment to improving your skills, work habits, and productivity
• Professional who is comfortable with providing and receiving constructive feedback and managing deadlines
• More than one year of experience writing in backend technologies; Ruby on Rails and Elixir preferred
• Possess a disciplined approach in creating readable and testable code
• Proficient in version control fundamentals such as branching, rebasing, and providing peer reviews by way of pull requests
• Experience operating in an agile environment
• Resourceful and comfortable working without complete information
• Ability to prioritize tasks and self manage
• US or Canadian citizenship or green card holder

What you would do:

• Expand our platform to best serve our customers, who are typically government agencies, through a highly available, scalable, reliable, and easy to implement architecture
• Build, test, deploy and maintain applications for the delivery of digital services and payments
• Write maintainable and extensible code that meets acceptance criteria with minimal defects
• Work with your team to break down and define work
• Document software functionality
• Perform code reviews for work being done across the CityBase organization

Helpful experience:

• Ruby on Rails
• Elixir & Phoenix
• GraphQL
• Postgres / Redis
• Git / GitHub / GitHub Actions / ArgoCD
• Docker / Kubernetes

Benefits:
At CityBase, we've created an inviting environment that fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation. Some of the benefits our team members enjoy include:

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible vacation policy
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible spending account and dependent flexible spending account
• Pre-tax commuter program
• Short and long term disability and life insurance
• Fitness membership stipend

What to expect from the interview process:
We are nice people and take our interview process seriously to ensure there is a good mutual fit. There are four rounds of interviews which encompass behavioral questions, a coding challenge, and system design. We are interested in how you think, problem-solve and who you are. We are not expecting perfection, so please don't be nervous - we are rooting for you! We believe in embracing new perspectives and optimizing impact. If you have relatable experience and relevant transferrable skills but feel you may be missing a few of the requirements, we encourage you to apply! We recognize that people have unique career journeys and if you're excited about this role and know you can bring something great to the team, then we want to hear from you.
Please know CityBase is committed to providing a comfortable and accessible interview process for every candidate. If there are any accommodations our team can make throughout our hiring process (big or small), please let us know. Upon request, appropriate accessible formats or arrangements will be provided as soon as practicable.