Software Engineer (RoR & React)

Job Description

At Zendesk we truly believe that to build a great product you have to have great people. We enjoy working with folks that are learning focused who care about both the customer and the code they write. We value collaboration and test driven development and release frequently. We like and use agile processes and believe that pragmatism always triumphs over dogmatism. We all are responsible for our product and enjoy the impact we have improving it.

The Voice team is looking for a hardworking software engineer to help grow and improve our Zendesk products. Youll be joining a team that works on our Voice products. Voice is a sophisticated real-time application that needs to be robust scalable and maintainable. Youll have the passion patience and determination to deliver high quality software to meet our customers needs. Does this sound like you

What youll do:

• Work collaboratively with a small focused self-organising team to deliver positive outcomes for our many customers.

• Participate in every stage of the development life-cycle from design to implementation testing rollout and making everything run efficiently in production.

• Follow and improve our practices throughout development: TDD spiking/prototyping pairing peer code review design review and rapid deployment.

• When working on debugging a tricky intermittent issue you wont give up until the feature behaves as expected the source of issue has been identified and an automated test has been put in place to avoid the issue reoccurring.

What you bring:

• Experience with OOD design patterns and good coding practices

• Ideally you will have exposure to some of our main stack Ruby/Rails JavaScript and React

• Ideally exposure to agile methodologies continuous integration/development and testing

• You recognise working within a team is more challenging but also more valuable and in the end more exciting

• You are equally happy diagnosing latency writing technical documents refactoring code to be more readable or developing product features.

• You want to whiteboard problems with your teammates and apply the scientific method to finding a pragmatic solution that is the best fit (on balance) for the identified problem space

• You are keen to learn take on feedback tackle challenges and deliver value to the team and our customers

• Strong communication skills. You can explain your views well to others and just as importantly listen actively to others ensuring a healthy productive discussion.

• We dont expect you to know everything so dont hesitate to apply if you dont check all the items above

Nice to have:

• Any knowledge or experience of VOIP or telecoms industry would contribute useful background knowledge.

• Growth potential; Were building for the future. We invest in our team and want people who take ownership and hold themselves and their team accountable.

Tech Stack & Tools

We code in Ruby & Rails for the backend React JS (Redux) for the frontend. We use MySQL Redis and Kafka for event processing. We use Ruby Selenium WebDriver and RSPEC for testing. We use Claude among other tools.

Our infrastructure is run on Kubernetes and our delivery pipeline is heavily reliant on Github & Github Actions once deployed we monitor using Datadog.

We communicate over Slack and use Zoom for meetings etc. Google Docs JIRA Confluence are our most used collaboration tools.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working enables us to purposefully come together in person at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world to connect collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

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