Sr. Back End Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to play an integral role in the planning and growth of our platform and engineering team. You'll be working with a high IQ / high EQ, lean-but-mighty and growing Engineering team and brilliant Product team to understand, and solve the biggest challenges that world-class journalists and brands face to genuinely engage their audiences. As the team grows, this person will act as the backend lead for our business. They have strategic vision and can take a high-level 1-3 year plan for growth at a business level and translate that into a technology roadmap. The ability to manage and simplify complexity is the hallmark of this role; working with this person should leave team members feeling like they are going to leave with something significantly better than they came into. Upcoming initiatives include: intelligent/automated content ideation, content recommendation engines, and a new suite of content editing tools. This is in addition to supporting the broad ecosystem of technology that powers our popular and existing workflow and analytics tools.

What You'll Do

• Guide the architecture of our Rails based back-end applications
• Migrate existing monolithic Rails server-side-rendered applications to APIs that power our front-end applications
• Maintain and improve the stability and performance of Ruby, Javascript, and Python back-end systems which power the overall tech stack
• Creatively solve problems
• Work collaboratively with other developers, product managers and UX
• Produce solid, thoroughly tested features (including automated tests)
• Lead and help set the standards of best practices for productive software development
• Participate in code reviews
• Work closely with and mentor other engineers

Who You Are

• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Highly proficient in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Bonus points for strong Python and/or Javascript skills.
• Experience with TDD & BDD process and frameworks
• Basic SQL experience (Postgres, MySQL or equivalent)
• Interested in Object-oriented programing and design
• You want to be part of a growing and entrepreneurial company with proven users and business model
• You want to learn more, build your experience, and contribute within a fast-paced agile environment