Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails - Developer Experience & Architecture)
Paris or Remote (France Only)
Tech /
Permanent /
Hybrid
Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create impactful communities.
Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Boeing, the Obama Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy, the British Heart Foundation, the Imperial College London, the P&G Alumni France, and Le Wagon Alumni.
We employ over 170 people across our entities in Paris, New York, the UK, and Sydney, and 30+ nationalities are represented in our team! 🌍
At Hivebrite, we believe in the importance of balancing your work commitments and personal life. You’re able to have a real impact on meaningful communities while prioritizing your personal life and goals. Our work policy encourages a healthy work-life harmony with a flexible schedule.
We also have many initiatives to keep our global team connected, offering opportunities to meet and socialize with team members virtually and in-person! 👋
For these reasons, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France last year! 🏆
Jump aboard, and join the hive! 🚀
🌟 YOUR ROLE WILL BE
- Own & maintain critical components and infrastructure of the platform
- Maintain and develop tools/scripts to improve developer experience (CI/CD pipelines, local dev environment)
- Contribute to performance optimization, scalability, security across the platform
- Responsibilities span across coding, infrastructure, and architecture
🌟 YOUR MISSION WILL BE
- Practice disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing efficiency code).
- Develop integrations with 3rd party software programs (Webhooks, API, deep integrations).
- Design, develop, test and implement new product features.
- Try new things ! POC is a cool word :)
- Be a leader on sharing knowledge. Animate and debate during architecture reviews, find a common ground and deliver the solution.
🌟 YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF
- 6+ years of programming experience in Ruby 🚂
- Programming experience in Golang and Python is also a big plus
- Experience working on large-scale backend systems
- Track record of designing and implementing complex and scalable software services
- Experience in architecting, deploying and operating asynchronous work queues, high-volume storage systems, and highthroughput systems
- Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism
- Docker has no secret for you
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment
- You have a great oral and written communication in English
🌟 RECRUITMENT PROCESS
- Meet Ruben, our Tech Recruiter, for a first video-call to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions (60 mins).
- Meeting with Samy (Engineering Manager) and Valentin (Software Engineer) to discuss performance issues, product-driven approach and some RoR patterns (60 mins).
- Meet 2 Senior Backend Engineers to discuss around a technical architecture review exercise (90 mins).
- Meet Tarek, our CPTO, to talk about your long-term involvement with Hivebrite (60 mins).
🌟HIVEBRITE'S PERKS & BENEFITS:
Work-Life balance:
Remote work:
- Nomad days policy (work from somewhere else between 1 and 12 weeks per year) - check out the full policy here ✈️
Family time:
- 2 months of paid leaves for the second care-giver 👨🍼
- Up to 5 days off for parents with sick kids per year 🤒
- Up to 3 days off per year to spend quality time with your kids 👶
- A special family plan with extra leaves for certain situations 🏠
- Around two weeks of RTT to enjoy more time off with your friends and familly 🏝
Chill & Care time:
- A paid day off for your birthday 🎉
- A paid volunteer day : volunteer for a cause that you care about during a paid day off 🌱
- Support for mental health via Moka Care (sessions paid by Hivebrite, collective sophrology sessions, etc.) 💆
Office life:
Our offices:
- Morning's office in the center of Paris with a rooftop just for us!
- Pool 🎱, foosball ⚽️, and a gym room 🏋️
- International team - you will easily hear 3 different languages in the same conversation 🌍
Events:
- Team building with dedicated budget for events every month with your team and yearly with your entire department 🎉
- Squads days for our engineering team - two days per month we meet at the office 💡
- Recurring events to gather together and spend fun times 🥳
The growth:
- Internal mobility and professional training to support your career 🚀
- Personalized well-being and growth follow up 📈
On the financial side:
Legal benefits, but more better:
- Alan: Covering and insurance package boosted (extra for vision, dental care, alternative medicines,...) 🩺
- For Paris employees, 100% of your Navigo Pass reimburse 🚇
- Lunch vouchers with Swile 🥧
- CSE advantages with Swile 🎁
About your work:
- A 200€ remote equipment allowance to build your work-from-home starter kit (desk, chair, etc…) 🖥️
- The latest Apple’s equipment 🍏
- A competitive salary package - we constantly ensure that we're aligned with the market 🤝
If you want to know everything you need about Hivebrite, check out our Welcome To The Jungle page : here!
