🤖 About The Role

We're in search of a mid-level Backend Engineer skilled at Ruby on Rails to join us on our mission to build a borderless world. In this role, you'll turn complex ideas into streamlined, efficient global mobility solutions. You'll be at the forefront of driving our product roadmap, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our development process. If you're passionate about creating exceptional user experiences and thrive in a collaborative, remote work environment, we want to hear from you!

🙌 About The Team

Join a close-knit team of frontend and backend engineers, engineering managers, product managers, designers, and UX researchers. Our remote collaboration spans multiple time zones, facilitated by tools like Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, and the Google suite. We value transparency, respect, and a shared dedication to simplifying our customers' lives, whether they're HR managers, case managers, or employees undergoing life-changing relocations.

👾 About Our Technology

We serve our customers through a web app built with React, TypeScript, Webpack, NextJS, and other technologies, which communicates with a REST API built with Ruby on Rails, Postgres, and Redis. We use GitHub for version control and code reviews, Semaphore and Github Actions for CI/CD, Rollbar for production error tracking, and rely on Heroku for infrastructure management.

👩‍💻 What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and implement backend solutions that drive our product roadmap.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end engineers, product managers, and designers, to create exceptional user experiences.
• Identify and prioritise product enhancements that align with the company's strategic goals and objectives, ultimately driving business value.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that follows industry best practices.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure top-notch quality and provide constructive feedback to your peers.
• Continuously contribute to improving our development process.
• Troubleshoot and debug application code.
• Contribute to architectural decisions to scale our application.

🔍 What We're Looking For

You'll thrive in this role if you:

• Have 3+ years of coding experience, with 2-3 years of Ruby on Rails experience; SQL knowledge is a plus!
• Demonstrate proficiency in backend/server-side programming.
• Boast a track record of building JSON APIs and backends that interact with relational databases for performing CRUD operations. (Postgres experience is a bonus).
• Are familiar with ORM libraries, particularly ActiveRecord.
• Have experience in designing, developing, and documenting REST APIs.
• Have familiarity with Automated Testing, especially unit tests.
• Appreciate the value of Test-Driven Development, even if you haven't used it recently (we use RSpec).
• Have experience in application debugging.
• Are familiar with monitoring tools such as New Relic and Rollbar.
• Have exposure to CI/CD practices.
• Possess strong English communication skills.

🦙 Why Choose Us

At Localyze, we offer:

• Inclusion in our passionate and globally diverse team, where three female founders lead the way, with over 55% female Localitos.
• A Macbook for your remote work setup, allowing you to work from Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, or the UK.
• Statutory healthcare coverage and enticing perks.
• A market-related salary, inclusive of employee stock options.
• An annual learning & development budget to continuously expand your knowledge.
• A work-life balance with access to Nilo Health, featuring eight 1:1 coaching/counseling sessions annually, plus unlimited access to courses, digital resources, and roundtable discussions.
• Paid time off and parental leave, along with an extra day of celebration!
• Participation in company-wide events and international retreats - we connected face-to-face in Portugal in 2022 and Italy in 2023!