Backend Engineer Senior (Ruby on Rails)

Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create impactful communities. 

Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Boeing, the Obama Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy, the British Heart Foundation, the Imperial College London, the P&G Alumni France, and Le Wagon Alumni. 

We employ over 170 people across our entities in Paris, New York, the UK, and Sydney, and 30+ nationalities are represented in our team! 🌍

At Hivebrite, we believe in the importance of balancing your work commitments and personal life. You’re able to have a real impact on meaningful communities while prioritizing your personal life and goals. Our work policy encourages a healthy work-life harmony with a flexible schedule.

We also have many initiatives to keep our global team connected, offering opportunities to meet and socialize with team members virtually and in-person! 👋

For these reasons, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France last year! 🏆

Jump aboard, and join the hive! 🚀

🌟 YOUR ROLE WILL BE

• We are looking for someone capable to build and scale the services powering our interactive web application. 🦝
• Some context? Well, we are starting to export some services outside from our good old friend "Monolith". 🏰
• Why? Isolate the services which need to be scaled. (performance and volume issues).
• Also, we go to API First to get closer to our customers and to isolate our frontend/backend. You know the drill! 😘
• Your future squad → User Journey Tribe is dedicated to build new features to improve the user journey, craft proof of concepts on new projects that focus on the user experience. They are responsible for the front-office and public-office, and their features: LiveFeed, Search, etc.

🌟 YOUR MISSION WILL BE

• Practice disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing efficiency code).
• Develop integrations with 3rd party software programs (Webhooks, API, deep integrations).
• Design, develop, test and implement new product features.
• We want from you that you try new things. POC is a cool word :)
• Be a leader on sharing knowledge. 
• Animate and debate during architecture reviews, find a common ground and deliver the solution.




• Our stack 👉 https://stackshare.io/hivebrite/hivebrite

🌟 YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF

• 6+ years of programming experience in Ruby or with another language like Python or Java. 🚂
• Experience working on backend systems at a large-scale internet service.
• Track record of designing and implementing complex and scalable software services.
• Experience architecting, deploying and operating asynchronous work queues, high-volume storage systems, and high-throughput systems.
• Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism.
• Docker has no secret for you.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment.
• You have a great oral and written communication in English. 🇺🇸

🌟 NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with Kubernetes.
• A rock-solid foundation in Computer Science (data structures, algorithms, software design).
• Experience in document oriented databases like Elasticsearch.
• Deep knowledge in microservices architectures.
• Experience with another language like Golang.
• Comfortable with DevOps aspects.
• Open-source contributions.

🌟 HIVEBRITE'S BENEFITS

• A competitive salary package. 🤝
• Computer allowance and a work-from-home starter kit (desk, chair, etc…). 🖥️
• 50% of your healthcare subscription. 👩🏻‍⚕️
• "Tickets Resto" with Swile - 8€ per day (50% covered). 🍔
• RTT (8 days). 🏝
• Budget to improve your craft. 📚
• Nomad days policy (Work from anywhere you'd like, up to 12 weeks per year, at once or throughout the year). ✈️

🌟 OFFICE & TEAM LIFE

• International team. 🌎
• Full remote policy. 👾
• WeWork's office in the center of Paris with a rooftop just for us! 🏰
• Pool 🎱, foosball ⚽️, gym room 🏋️‍♂️ at the office.
• Squad days (two days per month we meet at the office). 💡
• Team building events. 🎉
• Check out this page, to know us more. 🏄‍♂️

🌟 RECRUITMENT PROCESS

• Meet Clément, our Engineering Recruiter, for a first video-call to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions (60 mins).
• Meeting with of one of our Backend mate to discuss performance issues, product-driven approach and some RoR patterns (60 mins).
• Meet two Backend Senior to discuss around a technical architecture review exercise (60 mins).
• Meet Sergiu, our VP of Engineering, to speak about your long-term involvement with Hivebrite (60 mins).