Senior Ruby Back-End Engineer
Surprise.com, Georgia

Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations.

We are currently looking for a Lead Back-End Software Engineer to join our development teams in Kyiv (Gulliver) or Lviv (Magnus) or to work remotely and help us continue delivering a world-class product to our users.

• Making our product better, stronger, faster;
• Implementing new features in partnership with our Product Department;
• Tuning the application to make it more performant and scalable;
• Innovating lightweight, robust, platform-agnostic RESTful APIs;
• Designing an easy-to-maintain, easy-to-extend back end infrastructure;
• Shipping the best code you can, and helping other developers through code review and mentorship.

• Upper Intermediate English or higher (B2+);
• 5+ years of Rails development;
• A BS or higher in a technical field (Computer Science, Math, Physics, etc.);
• Experience in developing API-only applications;
• Strong knowledge of Ruby 2.6+, Rails 5-6;
• Relational DB’s (preferably PostgreSQL);
• Background processing (Sidekiq), Redis;
• Experience in leading at least 1 pod of engineers before;
• Track record of making all local technical and architecture decisions;
• Track record of building a strong local engineering culture and holding everyone accountable;
• Extensive experience doing code reviews and coaching more junior developers;
• Experience in high-velocity feature development focused projects before (b2b, b2c);

• Experience contributing along the full web stack (Rails, Postgres, Javascript, HTML, CSS);
• An interest in collecting data from disparate sources, whether via APIs or other means;
• Experience working within a geographically dispersed team;
• Demonstrated ability to expertly manage conflicting priorities;
• High-bandwidth, high-energy, competitive, and creative individual;
• Driven to outperform; dedicated to self-improvement.

• Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category
• Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company
• Competitive salaries
• Option of equity
• Close collaboration between UA and US team members
• Ultramodern office in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver)
• Flexible working hours
• Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!)
• English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office)
• Ability to travel to the US
• Corporate activities and parties
• Dedicated wellness area in the office
• 20 working days of paid vacation
• 15 days of paid sick leave
• And, of course, we use Surprise internally!

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