About the role
SUMMARY:
You will join a cross-functional squad responsible for building and maintaining high-scale, customer-facing services. The role involves contributing to new product features, evolving system architecture, improving code quality, and ensuring operational reliability in a modern, cloud-based environment.
The ideal engineer thrives in a collaborative, autonomous culture that values experimentation, continuous learning, and shared ownership. This position plays a key part in shaping technical decisions, supporting platform evolution, and delivering impactful solutions at scale.
WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING:
You will be joining our engineering team and will be a valued member working closely in a collaborative, autonomous, cross-functional team. You will help with the following:
Feature Delivery & Collaboration
- Participation in the design and delivery of new product features in collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams. - Exploration of feasibility options and contribution to customer-focused engineering decisions. - Commitment to clear goals, delivery expectations, and shared team objectives. - Clear and responsible communication within the squad to support alignment and transparency. - Communicating your needs clearly and responsibly.
Architecture & Technical Decision-Making
- Contribution to system architecture discussions and evolution of technical design within the squad. - Application of OOP, SOLID principles, and clean coding practices to build maintainable Ruby services. - Participation in establishing engineering patterns, standards, and long-term architectural improvements. - Support in building highly available, resilient, and scalable systems.
Code Quality & Testing
- Development of high-quality Ruby code that is maintainable, readable, and structured for long-term sustainability. - Adoption of strong testing practices using RSpec or Minitest to ensure robust test coverage. - Improvement of existing systems to enhance reliability, modularity, and testability. - Contribution to a culture of automated testing and continuous quality improvements.
Operational Excellence
- Support in building and maintaining services operating under significant scale and traffic. - Participation in monitoring, troubleshooting, and enhancing system resilience. - Contribution to observability practices, operational readiness, and continuous improvement of production systems. - Engagement in deployments and incident support as part of the team’s shared operational ownership.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Core Technical Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Ruby for building production applications. - Ability to deliver maintainable, well-structured code aligned with OOP and SOLID principles. - Proficiency in automated testing using RSpec or Minitest. - Experience working with Git and collaborative development workflows.
Backend Engineering Fundamentals
- Experience building scalable, API-driven backend services. - Understanding of concurrency, asynchronous processing, and distributed system interactions. - Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB for data persistence and caching. - Ability to design and troubleshoot systems operating under heavy load and high availability requirements.
Operational & Performance Awareness
- Familiarity with diagnosing performance bottlenecks and implementing optimisations. - Strong understanding of observability principles, including monitoring, logging, and system health analysis. - Experience supporting and iterating on production systems.
Communication & Collaboration
- Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal. - Ability to contribute positively to team collaboration, solution discussions, and knowledge sharing.
AWESOME BUT NOT REQUIRED:
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). - Familiarity with Rack, Sinatra, or Rails frameworks. - Exposure to EventMachine or event-driven architectures. - Experience with ELK, Datadog, or similar observability stacks. - Knowledge of AWS services such as ECR, EC2, S3, and RDS. - Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native practices, or infrastructure tooling.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
- Be part of our collegial environment where responsibility and authority are shared equally amongst colleagues, and help create our company culture - A culture in which we don’t criticise failure but ensure we learn from our mistakes - An Agile environment where your ideas are welcome - The possibility to grow and experience different projects - Fully remote - Ongoing Training & Mentoring - The possibility of travelling
- ATTENTION! THIS POSITION IS FOR PORTUGAL OR BRAZIL-BASED ONLY
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