Staff Backend Engineer - Ruby
Staff Backend Engineer - Ruby
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We strongly encourage applications from people of colour the LGBTQ community people with disabilities neurodivergent people parents carers and people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
If theres anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation please let us know.
About Cleo
Most people come to Cleo to do work that matters. Every day we empower people to build a life beyond their next paycheck building a beloved AI that enables you to forge your own path toward financial wellbeing.
Backed by some of the most wellknown investors in tech weve reached millions of people to support them throughout their financial lives from their first paycheck to their first home and beyond. Were hitting headlines too. This year Forbes named us as one of theirNext Billion Dollar Startups and we were crowned the Hottest Tech Scaleup at the Europas.
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What youll be doing
- Staff IC within a crossfunctional product squad and collaborating with a mix of engineers designers analysts and other disciplines to develop features that enhance our users financial health.
- Collaborating with other senior peers in your pillar to provide technical insight into upcoming work and leading the delivery by helping pull everyone together to get it shipped.
- Mentoring colleagues to help them grow as engineers and actively supporting their development.
- Working on our Ruby on Rails monolith building data models APIs and business logic services.
- Delivering your work using agile methodologies and tools like tests observability ABtests and feature flags.
- Analysing data to identify problems and generate new ideas using various sources such as our database application logs and user research data.
- Supporting colleagues through inhours support and optionally joining the compensated outofhours oncall rotation.
- Contributing to crosscutting concerns that improve our engineering efforts.
- Taking part in shaping the work of your squad beyond technical aspects participating in product ideation user research design reviews retrospectives and more.
Here are some examples big and small of the kinds of product feature work our engineers have taken part in over the last year:
- Building a secured credit card
- Launching new budget analysis features
- implementing pricing experiments for subscriptions
Want to hear more from our engineersCheck out Magdas blog post.
About you
You are passionate about making a positive difference in society by improving the financial health of our users. You align with ourcompany valuesandengineering principles which drive our ways of working and software delivery.
As this is an SE5 position as described in our public progression framework were looking for someone who has at least 5 years industry experience of using Ruby on Rails. If its not quite that much maybe you want to look at our otherBackend roles.
What do you get for all your hard work
- A competitive compensation packagebase equity). You can view our public progression framework and salary bandings here: at one of the fastestgrowing tech startups backed by top VC firms Sofina Balderton & EQT Ventures
- A clear progression plan.We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things leading others challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
- Flexibility: We cant fight for the worlds financial health if were not healthy ourselves. We work with everyone to make sure they have the balance they need to do their best work.
- Hybridfirst:Join our hybridfirst team where we blend the best of both remote and inoffice work. We expect our team members to be in our London office 12 times a week. On Thursdays we buy you lunch but you can come in whichever days work best! We can consider fullyremote candidates for SE4 level for our remote employees well cover your travel to the London office every term (every four months).
- Other benefits;
- Check out our new benefits package here: days annual leave a year public holidays an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo)
- 6 employermatched pension
- Companywide performance reviews every 8 months e.g every 2 terms in line with our termly cycles (JanApril MayAug SeptDec):
- Generous pay increases for highperformers and highgrowth team members
- Equity topups for team members getting promoted
- Private Medical Insurance via Vitality dental cover and life assurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo
- Regular socials and activities online and inperson
- Well pay for your OpenAI subscription
- Online mental health support via Spill
- And many more!
UK App access:The Cleo app is no longer downloadable in the UK. If youre an existing user youll still have access to the app. But some features wont be available. Why 99 of our users are based in the US where financial health is often overlooked. Weve decided to shift our focus to where we can provide the most value and make the greatest impact for users who need it most. Then well be able to apply what we learn to better support our UK users in the future.
For more info on next steps please visit our Engineering Interview process page: Experience:
Staff IC
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Full-Time
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