Senior Ruby Backend Engineer

Welcome to SkillLab

At SkillLab, we envision a world where everyone has a pathway to employment. We enable and lead a radical change - a focus on a skill-based approach to employment services. Our AI-driven technology creates more inclusive and efficient labor markets by empowering people to turn their skills into careers. SkillLab is working with employment and career services in 25+ countries and seeks to transform labor and education markets globally.

Your opportunity

• You will apply your experience in developing the backend components of a large and growing software platform based on Ruby on Rails exposing a JSON API for a React front-end.
• You will write code for new and existing features and components in close collaboration with our developers, UX, QA, Ops and PM teams.
• You will create, extend and optimize features in a Ruby on Rails application backed by PostgreSQL, Redis and Solr.
• You will experience the culture of a technology start-up and work in an international environment with SkillLabers from +28 countries.

Your team

You will join our engineering team as the new Senior Backend Engineer. The engineering team is comprised of three small squads. The three squad leads are Yasser, Lala and Aaron. Aaron is also the Head of Engineering at Skilllab. Other SkillLabers who make the engineering team awesome are:

• Barry, Nubar and Refai as our backend engineers.
• Ivana, Kilani, Ibraheem, Nouraldin and Mojtaba as front-end engineers.
• Gaspar as our full-stack engineer and domain lead.
• Luiza and Nathany who take care of our QA processes.
• Hamza is managing our DevOps work.

We are proud of the people we collaborate with and excited to work at a company with a strong social mission. We hope you will be too!

Your impact

• You will familiarize yourself with the business and product requirements by reviewing, giving feedback and contributing to the product requirements for your features.
• You will write technical documentation that can be easily understood by others.
• You will write RoR code that meets high-quality technical standards and needs minimal improvements after QA (Quality Assurance) processes.
• You will triage error reports, debug and optimize existing features while finding opportunities to improve scaling, database performance and balancing modularity/code-reuse.
• You will provide code reviews to support other developers to improve their code while providing assistance and direction.

Requirements

Your skills

• You have 5 to 8 years of web development experience in Ruby on Rails.
• You can demonstrate problem solving and debugging skills.
• You have experience with testing via minitest, webmock and/or similar tools.
• You have experience with PostgreSQL and optimizing database queries.
• You have a strong understanding of git based version control, project management tools such as Jira and Agile software development practices.
• You are comfortable taking the lead on architecting and planning development for major features. Furthermore, you are enthusiastic to support and mentor others.

Extra awesome

• You can read, understand and contribute to the Typescript/React-front end in collaboration with our experienced front-end team.
• You are experienced in optimizing Docker-based builds.
• You have experience with deploying Kubernetes both manually and via IaaC systems such as FluxCD.

Salary & start-date

• We use a salary benchmark for the Dutch high-tech sector to set your salary based on your experience. We expect that the annual gross salary for the experience we are looking for ranges from 68k-80k Euro per year.
• We accept applications on a rolling basis, and we envision a start date as soon as possible.

Benefits

• You will enjoy 25 paid vacation days per year (20 days as the statutory minimum holiday entitlement in the Netherlands plus 5 extra days from SkillLab).
• You can work flexibly both from our office in Amsterdam or remotely within the Netherlands. You can also extend your holiday stay in a different country and work from abroad for a limited period of time.
• You will get an extensive relocation support to move to Amsterdam including visa sponsorship, 30% ruling application, your plane tickets, covered real estate agent fees etc.
• You will have a personal learning budget to invest in your professional development.
• You will have access to mentors & coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator).
• You will have access to a monthly flexible budget of benefits via Alleo app. You can spend this budget on a large selection of providers, ranging from gym memberships to bike subscriptions and online stores.
• You will join our bi-annual company offsite retreats in different locations like Belgium, Netherlands etc.

What else to know

• This is how we lead tech projects at SkillLab: [https://lala-rustamli.medium.com/leading-technical-projects-the-skilllab-way-717a6c5ac268>
• SkillLab is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion at the workplace. We welcome applications of candidates from all backgrounds. Read more about DEI at SkillLab: [https://skilllab.io/en-us/news/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-at-skilllab>
• Read more about our compensation framework: [https://skilllab.io/en-us/news/skilllab-compensation>