Junior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Location: Kaunas or Vilnius, Lithuania; hybrid work with 2 recommended office days per week

Salary: €2,575 gross per month

Company

hirify.global is a Lithuania-founded second-hand marketplace group operating hirify.global Marketplace, hirify.global Go, and hirify.global Pay across Europe.

What you will do

• Learn and contribute to one of the world's largest Ruby on Rails codebases using MySQL (Vitess) and Redis.
• Participate in extracting small, manageable components from a monolithic application.
• Monitor code with Grafana, Kibana, and Datadog.
• Implement product changes and improve user experience through experimentation.
• Collaborate through GitHub pull requests and code reviews while applying Agile and Scrum principles.
• Work with an experienced engineer and participate in technical workshops and ongoing learning sessions.

Requirements

• Some experience with object-oriented languages such as Ruby, Java, PHP, or similar.
• Some coding skills and a strong interest in backend engineering.
• Problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Willingness to learn, commit, take ownership, and create.
• GitHub account.
• Availability to work full time from 1 March 2027; a 0.8 contract option is available for university students.

Nice to have

• Understanding of backend frameworks such as Symfony, Ruby on Rails, Django, or Laravel.
• Experience with MySQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch.

Culture & Benefits

• Six-month paid contract consisting of a two-month technical induction and four months in a hirify.global engineering team, with an opportunity to join permanently afterward.
• Hybrid work with flexibility to decide when to work from home and when to work in the office.
• Remote workation of up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 days globally; non-EU citizens may work worldwide for up to 21 days.
• 25 working days of holiday, private health insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program for employees and families.
• Learning budget starting at €3,000 per year and up to 10 working days over two years for development.
• Share options, team-building events, hirify.global shopping budget, and office-specific meals or lunch allowances.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted from 9 November to 29 November at 23:59 EEST; aligned junior profiles receive an online Codility assignment.
• Selection includes a technical take-home assignment, technical interview, and culture-fit interview, followed by offers around late January or early February.