Senior Backend Engineer (f/d/m) Ruby on Rails
Senior Backend Engineer (f/d/m) Ruby on Rails
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This is what its about
Please note: The parttime scope is 80100%. You can use our office in Berlin or work completely remotely within Germany.
You want to use your Ruby on Rails experience for a good cause You want to contribute to a product that makes a difference You want to play a key role in our development team to drive the growth of Koalect by RaiseNow an innovative Tech4Good company
As Senior Backend Engineer (f/m/d) in our team you will improve and extend our product with endtoend responsibility. You are involved in everything from research coding testing and deploying to documentation.
Your mission
- Design development and maintenance of our Koalect services
- Technical (and related product) research for extending the current set of features on Koalect services
- You share your findings with other team members including documentation
- Operational tasks in keeping Koalect stable incl. monitoring and OnCall duty (additionally compensated)
- CrossTeam coordination to bring new features live
- Ensure code quality by performing code reviews and coaching junior team members
- Educate the team about your experience by creating learning paths & organising knowledge sharing sessions
- Maintenance and improvement of the AWS infrastructure to ensure availability of the services in a DevOps mindset
Your profile
- Proficiency in the ecosystem of Ruby on Rails
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs and eventdriven systems (designing and reasoning)
- Proficiency in AWS (EC2 ECS EBS RDS) and ER database systems like PostgreSQL
- Good knowledge of docker and docker compose
- Familiar with unit and functional testing as well as code reviews git workflows and continuous delivery approach
- Fluent in written and verbal English (at least C1)
- Striving for simplicity and when its not possible keeping an eye on the devil in the details
Nice to have:
- Knowledge with Bitbucket CI pipelines
- Experience in server administrations (linux) bash scripting
- Familiarity with security concerns in AWS
Our Tech Stack
- Ruby 3.2.2
- Ruby on Rails 7.2 (moving to 8 Q4 2025)
- Cucumber for functionals behaviour driven tests
- PostgreSQL 13 (master/master for replication) Redis
- ELK stack
- Docker containers for CI/CD dev and production
- CI/CD on bitbucket pipelines
- Services are hosted on AWS: ElasticBeanstalk SQS S3 lambda EC2 RDS ElastiCache Route53 CloudFront
- 2/3
Your learnings
Youll become an expert in Koalect concepts. In particular
- How to develop software at a large scale reliably and securely
- Working in a crossfunctional team (front and back end)
Why RaiseNow
- A futureoriented job in a meaningful environment with an international team
- Enjoy flexibility around your working time and place: We offer flexible work schedules with annual working time as well as temporary working abroad options all in a remote first setup
- 5 weeks paid annual leave plus additional PTO days per year with RaiseNow your birthday as PTO
- We know that time is precious: Were part of the pledge 1% initiative offer sabbatical options and yearly educational leave for everyone
- The perks of joining a scaleup: short decision paths transparent communication and regular team events one workation per year to meet all colleagues in one spot
- An innovative working environment with a culture of transparency trust and mutual respect
- Project autonomy and space for personal development from the beginning
Employment Type
Full Time
