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Senior Back-end Engineer – Growth Force
Location
Spain
Posted
140 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Back-end Engineer – Growth Force
Toptal
• Write elegant, efficient, and testable Ruby code that is easy to maintain and debug. • Cover code with tests and perform manual testing of features, while reviewing the work of colleagues. • Work on the infrastructure part of the project, collaborating with Infrastructure Engineers. • As a true teammate, continuously improve the team’s processes, brainstorm ideas, communicate statuses, and progress. • Mentor team members, provide feedback, and continuously improve as a professional. • Learn new concepts and technologies. • Design, develop, document, analyze, create, test or modify computer or cloud-based systems or programs.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of web development experience with Ruby/Rails.
- 5 years of experience with SQL databases.
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, automated software testing, development, and testing essential methodologies.
- Knowledge of GraphQL and Kafka is preferred but not required.
- Ability to consider multiple quality dimensions like user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance.
- Be genuinely interested in technology and love to try new things.
- Tackle complex problems by considering multiple solutions, weighing them, and deciding on the best course of action.
- Must have outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Thrive on providing and receiving transparent but always constructive feedback.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
- You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.
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