Senior Backend Engineer - Ranking and Pricing

We’re the world's leading carsharing platform, with millions of users around the world, sharing thousands of cars in over 950 cities across 7 countries. Our mission is simple: Make our cities better places to live through carsharing.

Carsharing empowers people to move in a smarter and more sustainable way: studies show that one shared car replaces between 5 and 8 privately owned cars, which frees up space in our cities while giving communities 24/7 access to cars when they need them.

With our connected car technology, users can quickly and easily book and unlock a wide variety of vehicles directly from our app, without ever having to meet anyone in person, carry an access card, wait in line, or coordinate picking up keys.

To reach our vision of a world where all cars are shared, we need a strong team to help us disrupt car ownership. We look for people who are curious, positive, and engaged; who can adapt and learn quickly; who have the skills and smarts to reach their goals autonomously while having the generosity and mindset to work collaboratively. No matter your role, background, or level of experience, we believe that every member of the team can have an impact.

We’re extremely proud to be certified in the “Best Workplaces” in 2023!

Your Mission

• As a Backend Engineer on our Ranking and Pricing squad, you'll play a key role in developing the systems and tools that power our pricing algorithms and ranking mechanisms. Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, frontend and mobile engineers to deliver robust and scalable backend services. Your work will directly impact our users and market, driving our mission to make carsharing ubiquitous.
• You’ll be a key member of our international team, working closely with two backend engineers in France and two in the US, as well as other multidisciplinary team members. You will work closely with one of our engineering managers, who is dedicated to supporting your growth and development.

What You’ll Do

• Build New Features: Take features from initial exploration through conception, development, testing/QA, release, documentation, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code, adhering to best practices.
• Architectural Development: Contribute to shaping the squad's vision by using continuous refactoring to build a more decoupled architecture and create user-friendly abstractions for other developers.
• Code Reviews: Review your peers' code to share knowledge and ensure code updates meet our product and tech standards.
• Technical Expertise: Provide technical insights for estimating and prioritizing the most valuable features.
• Team Rituals: Participate in team rituals to refine processes, manage day-to-day requests, explore, and estimate upcoming work.

Tech Stack

• Backend: Ruby on Rails 7 with Ruby 3
• Frontend: Haml, TypeScript, and React
• Background Jobs: Sidekiq
• Testing: Rspec
• Continuous Integration: Docker and CircleCI
• Continuous Deployment: Deploy multiple times a day to AWS (K8) using Shipit, our homemade tool
• Databases: MySQL, Redis, Snowflake, each used for different purposes
• Monitoring: New Relic and Bugsnag

What You’ll Bring

• Proven Experience: 5+ years of experience. You've shipped and maintained code running in production environments.

• Backend Proficiency: Strong knowledge of at least one backend object-oriented language (Ruby preferred).

• Database Skills: Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.

• Meticulous Engineering: You prioritize reliability in the backend services you create, maintaining a meticulous engineering approach.

• System Design: Good understanding of system design, data structures, and overall architecture.

• Communication: Strong communication skills in English, essential for collaborating effectively with both technical and non-technical team members, including fully remote colleagues.

• Detail-Oriented: Capable of challenging specifications and always ready to offer solutions. You balance technical and business needs effectively.

• User Focused: You understand that the ultimate goal is to enhance user value through your contributions.

• Team Player: You have an egoless programming mindset and can take constructive feedback on the code you produce.

If you don't tick all the boxes but still believe you'd be a great fit for this role, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse skills and experiences and are always looking for fresh perspectives that can drive innovation and growth

What we offer

• 👥 A solid engineering team with a lot of experience.

• 🧘‍♀️The peace of mind of a large test suite and pull requests to stay sane and ship often

• 🔧"Hack days" to experiment with new technologies and ideas as well as other team events

• 🏡 A remote-friendly policy: this position is based in our Paris office with up to 3 days of remote work per week.

• 🌎 Getaround Europe is a fast-growing company with offices in Paris and Oslo. We offer one of the most dynamic and diverse company cultures in town and give every employee the opportunity to grow and the power to define their impact at Getaround.

• 🌱 The opportunity to have a positive impact on climate change. Cars are responsible for 17% of carbon emissions. In France, an independent study has shown that each connected car shared on Getaround replaces more than 5 self-owned cars.

• 🧠 A place to learn and grow with weekly 1 on 1 meetings with your manager, frequent 360° feedback from your teammates, personal objectives to develop your potential, optional annual training, plus a team wiki that you’ll contribute to improve

• 🌐 An international team and company: our product is live in the US, France, Norway, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Austria.

• 📝 A monthly subsidy to cover part of your work-related expenses at home

• 🤝 Getaround is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity, equity and inclusion of all our Getarounders

• 🗓 Unlimited 30% vouchers for your Getaround bookings

• 💫 Health insurance

• 🍽 A Swile lunch card

• 🧑‍💼An employee committee (CSE)

• 💻 Apple equipment

Linkedin, Twitter and/or Github usernames are appreciated! Don't hesitate to give our backend challenge a try.