If you believe in delighting customers, have high standards and are resourceful, we want to hear from you.
Mission
Write production-ready software designed for supporting business growth and bringing Grain's' delightful
experiences to customers through teamwork and discipline.
Outcomes
- Contribute to the backend service performance and reliability, including our Ruby on Rails servers, GCP deployments, and Cloudflare workers.
- Write high-quality code that is accompanied by robust and meaningful tests.
- Be proficient with profiling and solve performance bottlenecks.
- Create scalable and informative documentation to scale knowledge and communication.
Competencies
- Proficient in writing Ruby.
- Proficient in writing tests with RSpec.
- Proficient in writing Javascript / Typescript.
- Experienced with Ruby on Rails framework.
- Proficient in writing SQL.
- Experienced with Postgres.
- Strong understanding of command line and toolchains (e.g. Zsh, Vim, Tmux).
- Have a good grasp of serverless paradigms including deployments, scaling and security.
- Experienced in GraphQL or is willing to learn.
Responsibilities
- To lead the engineering team by setting high standards and creating scalable processes.
- Own the engineering team outcomes and support product management efforts.
- Be responsible for the technical interview process of hiring new engineers.
- Design and architect existing or new systems and platforms.
- Be responsible for creating a culture of code reviews and pair programming.
- Coach and mentor the team to be proficient in testing and completing the work by documenting all necessary information to the product manager or stakeholder.
What’s in it for you
- Work with a fast growing, at the same time, lean and mean team, to make real world impact.
- Have a lot of ownership and drive your own results and progression.
- Smart people who sweat the details and push for the highest standards.
- Training and in-house opportunities to help you grow.
- Other benefits include a competitive compensation package and birthday leave.
You should include these in your application:
- CV or LinkedIn profile
- Tell us about a time you had to work on a highly challenging task. How did you overcome it?
- What motivates you?
- What's your favourite food and where do you get it? Why?
- A good way to start is to read about what it is like working at Grain: https://www.notion.so/grain/Working-at-Grain-96bff3bba5e84ababe6fb7743b49489f
