Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Plan: Portfolio Experience

2 нед. назад

CanadaUnited StatesWorldwideSeniorRemote

ruby

Senior Backend Engineer role focused on developing and improving backend systems for 's Portfolio Experience team.

О компании

We are a team of 4 - 2x Backend Engineers, 2x Frontend Engineers located across Europe and Canada. We own the work item hierarchy, including Epic, Issue, and Task relationships, and top-down planning capabilities such as status rollup and capacity planning. We work async-first in two-week iterations, with retrospectives and a weekly sync.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

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We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for 's Portfolio Experience team . You'll be an experienced product engineer who incorporates user needs into feature decisions and brings full stack experience, with a current focus on backend. You'll spend as much time understanding user needs and shaping how features should work as you do building them, working directly with product, users, and open source contributors.
You'll help evolve the backend architecture that powers the work items platform, which must serve millions of work items in a single user's view across tens of thousands of groups and projects.
Collaborate with product and other engineers to shape requirements, understand user needs, and break complex projects into shippable iterations.
Design and implement backend and real-time features in the monolith, including GraphQL and RESTful APIs and subscriptions, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user impact.
Build and evolve portfolio planning capabilities, including work item hierarchy, status rollup, and capacity planning.
Improve PostgreSQL performance at scale through query and write optimization, indexing, denormalization, partitioning, and moving suitable workloads to Elasticsearch or ClickHouse.
Create proofs of concept for complex work, maintain extensive automated test coverage, and support safe rollouts with feature flags and strong observability.
Mentor engineers and open source contributors through code reviews, pairing, regular feedback, contributor issues, and hackathons.
Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve the team's development and review processes.
Experience representing the user perspective while working through trade-offs with product managers, engineers, and users.
Experience leading projects involving several engineers over multiple months and supporting others through thoughtful code reviews, feedback, hiring, career development, and mentoring.
Full stack experience with a current backend focus, including proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails and an understanding of how complex modern frontends work.
Strong PostgreSQL skills and experience improving database performance at scale through query and write optimization, indexing, denormalization, and partitioning.
Experience designing and evolving GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs with attention to scalability, backward compatibility, and clear contracts with frontend clients.
Experience improving large automated test suites, including the performance and reliability of the tests themselves.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for an asynchronous, distributed environment.
Experience integrating artificial intelligence into development workflows. Experience building artificial intelligence-powered features or working with Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, or Python is a plus.
We welcome candidates with different backgrounds and transferable skills. If you're excited about this role but don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
Flexible Paid Time Off 
Team Member Resource Groups
Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Growth and Development Fund
Parental Leave  
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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