Backend Engineer (Ruby) (Fintech)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Ruby): Responsible for scaling database operations and supporting a growing amount of data (tens of terabytes) with an accent on gathering meaningful data and insights. Focus on optimizing endpoints, performing code reviews, and working on challenging products.

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global provides data and insights.

What you will do

• Participate in the full development life cycle, including design, implementation, quality polish, and release.
• Work on full feature implementation from brainstorming the architecture design to backend implementation.
• Optimize endpoints that touch billions of rows in the database by applying profiling to Ruby code and understanding ClickHouse queries.
• Perform code reviews and suggest improvements to tools and processes.
• Work on challenging products like SDK Insights, developing a robust backend and understanding how mobile SDK teardown works.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer (meaningful GitHub contributions considered).
• Strong foundation in programming, algorithms, and software application design.
• Solid understanding of RESTful systems and the principles of good API design.
• Understanding of the basics of cloud environments, ideally with some exposure to AWS.
• Required: Ruby on Rails (or Python and willing to learn Ruby on Rails).

Nice to have

• ClickHouse, MongoDB, Sidekiq, TypeScript, React.js.

Culture & Benefits

• Simplicity: Avoid over-engineering and prefer straightforward solutions.
• Quality: Write readable code and polish to a high level before shipping.
• Extreme Ownership: Understand the "why" behind your work and own the ultimate goal of fixing problems at their root cause.
• Prioritization: Focus on what is important, not just what is urgent.