Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails) — Build scalable features & lasting impact

Requirements

• Have at least 4 years of experience with Ruby on Rails
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• Have a balanced blend of technical, business, and product skills
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• Show empathy for your users and want to solve real issues for them
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• Have strong communication skills and are capable of articulating your ideas clearly
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• Are Fluent in English (French is not mandatory)
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• Are a team player and have experience working in an agile environment
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• If you’re hesitating, we encourage you to apply anyway: worst case scenario, you might lose a few minutes, and in the best case, it will be the start of a meaningful and long-lasting collaboration

What the job involves

• As a Software Engineer, you would will be part of a 250+ people Tech organisation. Each engineer is part of a squad focussing on a part of the product, reporting to a Team Lead or an Engineering Manager
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• Each squad is made with all the skills needed to build features end to end in autonomy, you will be working daily with a product manager, a designer and software engineers
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• As a Software Engineer you will take part of the discovery phase of the projects with the Product Manager and Designer to define the feature to build; then you will participate with other engineers to design the software architecture, build it, test it and release it to production
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• The squad is also working on supporting customers using the features built by monitoring and fixing issues in production
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• Within one month :
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• You will learn everything about our company, our teams, and our vision during the first onboarding week
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• You will follow a tech onboarding training to get familiar with the application, the accounting concepts, the code stack (we use Ruby 3, Ruby on Rails 7, AWS, React, TypeScript) and the CI/CD and have full autonomy with it
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• You are integrated in your squad and explained your squad scope, roles and responsibilities
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• You will have a “tech buddy”, another engineer, helping you on a daily basis with all the technical details you need to know at Pennylane
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• You will start working on what we call “good first issues” to get familiar with the dev environment, the code structure, the tools and the squad scopes
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• Within 3-6 months :
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• You’ll contribute to meaningful new features or improvements in your team’s scope
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• You’ll have the opportunity to improve on our tools and processes to help us achieve better quality and/or velocity
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• You’ll be included in at least once code review specialist group to decide and improve the adoption of our best practices on one topic (e.g. testing, code architecture, database migrations, etc)
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• You’ll start looking into quantitative and qualitative product feedback to sharpen the team’s roadmap
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• And beyond :
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• The teams are growing, there are plenty of opportunity to grow and develop your skills as a software engineer
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• You will be able to take ownership and gain responsibilities on some features or projects the squad is responsible for
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• You will have the possibility to have impact at Pennylane scale by working on cross teams or transversal initiatives
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• You will participate in scaling the Pennylane application from 30k+ customers to millions customers