Software Engineer, Backend (CSI)

Our client is a 3D data and technology company for home improvement and property insurance professionals. With a team of investors, including Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, the company is committed to continuing our success and facilitating growth.

Why the company wants you:

The company is looking for a strong Rails Engineer who has deep knowledge of the framework and hands-on experience building and scaling web apps and backend services. We’re a small but growing group of engineers, so beyond the prerequisite senior technical ability, we’re looking for someone with exceptional initiative, a passion for building awesome stuff for the pure excitement of it, and a love for pushing the envelope while building high quality, scalable and extensible products.

You’d be joining our Core Services & Insurance (CSI) Team - a team that partners with all the company teams to deliver stable & consistent experiences for all customers. You will join as a member of our backend engineering team and be responsible for the architecture and evolution of our platform. Like all engineering roles at the company, this is a cross-functional role at its core. You will also work in coordination with other engineering teams (frontend, graphics, automation, mobile), and non-engineering teams (product, design) in an agile development environment.

You will contribute by:

• Write clean, tested, and documented code
• Stay at the cutting edge of your discipline through communication, collaboration, and mentorship opportunities (including code reviews and occasional pair programming)
• Build new features in our product, integrate image processing, 3D rendering and machine learning code, and optimize it against one of the world’s biggest datasets of residential property imagery
• Your background includes:
• Current experience (2+ years) building reliable, scalable, maintainable high-traffic Ruby on Rails applications
• Interest or experience working on the frontend with a modern framework (React, Vue, etc)
• Experience with all aspects of testing fullstack applications: unit, functional, feature, and end-to-end
• Experience with the usual suspects (PostgreSQL, Redis, rspec, git, Resque)
• Comfortable on a bash shell and SQL console
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Must-Have

• 1-2 years of Ruby on Rails experience is a requirement
• Must be willing to work in Ruby on Rails
• Good testing practices.

Strongly Preferred (Positives)

• Experience in similar size companies (350 employees). Extremes won’t work, if they’ve only worked at <10 people startup or someone only from Google. Need to see the fit. Experience in startups is not necessarily a requirement.
• Business minded candidates are doing very well. They work well with Product Manager, can communicate well. Teams are very cross functional in nature. They need to have exposure to different functions like Design, PM, QA.