Senior back-end Engineer Ruby

We - Cafeyn Group

With more than 15 years of existence, Cafeyn Group is a multi-brand company composed of Cafeyn, Blendle, miLibris and Kidjo. Based in France, The Netherlands, UK, Canada and Morocco and almost 200 employees, we propose an innovative media experience through different products. We want to achieve strong business performance across the Cafeyn Group through organic growth, diversified revenue streams and sustainable profitability. New opportunities are continuously sought by investment both within and outside of the business. We deliver high-value, high-focus and forward-thinking, premium infotainment (information & entertainment content) services to our partners and customers, with personalised and relevant content to entertain and educate our audience, broadening their perspective and making them more knowledgeable.

Your responsibilities

You will join the Tech team, and work on the backend development and maintenance of the Blendle platform.

Your missions

• Participate in the migration project to Cafeyn
• Collaborate with the Product Manager, editorial and marketing teams to implement new features
• Ensure the operation and maintenance as well as the evolution of existing systems
• Come up with systematic solutions to problems instead of focusing on one-off fixes
• Participate in technical design of our back-end systems
• Pairing on a feature with a colleague
• Ensure all phases of development, code review, versioning, documentation and maintenance
• Contribute to the methods and processes put in place (agile methodology)

Who are we looking for?

You have come to the right place if you have

• Strong working knowledge of Ruby development
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs and/or gRPC
• Experience with development tools, source management and CI/CD
• Experience in performance optimization, unit tests and best practices
• Strong English communication skills It's a perfect match if
• You have experienece in Devops and Kubernetes
• Familiar with cloud deployment (AWS / GCP) and cloud infrastructure
• You are constantly driven by a product vision and concern for optimising solutions, technically, functionally and financially
• Team player, committed, motivated by the Cafeyn growth project

The technical stack/tooling we work with includes:

• Ruby (primary programming language for this role)
• Kubernetes
• Redis
• Postgres
• Rails, Sinatra
• Golang
• ElasticSearch
• Kafka
• GraphQL
• Google Cloud Platform
• Jenkins

What we offer

• A full-time job (40 hours that you're free to plan into your week however you'd like)
• A competitive salary
• Full travel reimbursement
• A MacBook
• Freedom to work anywhere, everywhere
• If you like days in the office, we're in an ideal location in Utrecht, the heart of the Netherlands, at a 3-minute walk from the central station
• Free and delicious lunches
• Unlimited holidays
• Awesome and ambitious teams that share the same passion: to make journalism accessible and help people make better choices
• Very generous parental / birth leave

You don't have to match all the requirements, if you feel this offer could be a great opportunity for you, reach out anyways! We hire based on talent and we promote inclusivity inside Cafeyn and strongly believe that our culture is strongest when it is the most diverse.