Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails - Developer Experience & Architecture)
HivebritePosted 2/10/2025
Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails - Developer Experience & Architecture)
Hivebrite
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Job Summary
Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform that empowers organizations to create impactful communities. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will own and maintain critical components of the platform, develop tools/scripts to improve developer experience, and contribute to performance optimization, scalability, security across the platform. You will work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with flexible remote work options, $4,000/year travel stipends, and equity in a fast-growing company. Hivebrite values curiosity, ownership, and a drive to improve, and offers a range of benefits including mental health support, gym membership, and competitive salary package.
Job Description
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:
- Support for mental health via Moka Care (sessions paid by Hivebrite, collective sophrology sessions, etc.) 💆
- Around two weeks of RTT to enjoy more time off with your friends and familly 🏝
- Paid leaves for parents with sick kids 🤒
- Nomad days policy (work from almost anywhere you'd like, up to 12 weeks per year, at once or throughout the year) - check out the full policy here ✈️
Office life:
- International team - you will easily hear 3 different languages in the same conversation 🌍
- Morning's office in the center of Paris with a rooftop just for us!
- Squads days for our engineering team - two days per month we meet at the office 💡
- Internal mobility and professional training to support your career 🚀
On the financial side:
- Of course, all the mandatory benefits, but with the best companies to support you (Alan, lunch vouchers with Swile, etc.)
- CSE advantages with Swile 🎁
- A competitive salary package - we constantly ensure that we're aligned with the market 🤝
- A 200€ remote equipment allowance and a work-from-home starter kit (desk, chair, etc…) 🖥️
- The latest Apple’s equipment 🍏
