Senior Backend Engineer - Ruby

Senior Backend Engineer - Ruby WHO WE ARE: Founded in 2013, Ignition is the recurring revenue and billing automation platform for firms and agencies to transform their sales, billing and payment processes. Ignition automates proposals, invoicing, payments and workflows in a single platform, empowering 8,500+ businesses to sell, bill and get paid for their services with ease. To date, Ignition customers have managed relationships with over 2.4 million clients and earned $13b in revenue via the platform. Ignition’s global workforce spans Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines, US and the UK. COMPANY VALUES: - We are better everyday - We work without ego - We are smarter together - We hero our customer SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER - RUBY WHERE AND HOW WE WORK: We are open to candidates based in Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane with full Australian work rights. We operate in a hybrid model, giving you flexibility to work from home, a shared workspace, or a combination of both. ABOUT THE ROLE: We’re looking for smart, talented and experienced team members that can take ownership, articulate their point of view and back their opinions with a well researched and knowledgeable stance. The purpose of this role is to contribute to the ongoing improvement and development of our product, through domain driven design and continuous deployment of high quality software code. WHAT YOUR DAY TO DAY WILL LOOK LIKE: - Collaborate with front-end developers and other cross-functional team members to design functional, cohesive solutions that ship valuable features at scale - Develop APIs and integrate data from various back end services & databases - Compile and analyze data, processes, and code to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement - Record data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership - Participate in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new techniques and patterns, , and better assist other team members - Developing back-end functionality and assisting the Lead developer - Providing guidance on projects, as needed - Participating in research, producing POCs, and evaluating new methodologies and technologies that improve quality, reliability, scalability, security, and performance of Ignition technology, architecture, and product - Actively participate in code reviews by providing constructive comments and sharing and adopting best practices, to improve codebase quality, efficiency, and security - Mentor and guide developers by providing quality coaching and guiding proper execution of their tasks - Commit to supporting a safe, mindful, and productive team environment, maintaining open, honest, and respectful communication HOW WE WORK: - Distributed team - Continuous Delivery (write, review and deploy code every day) - “Little a” agile (daily standup, cross-functional teams, fortnightly sprint planning and retro, and a high degree) WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED: List required experience and skills in order from most important to least, qualifications with must-have and nice-to-have - Approx 5-7+ yrs experience in backend development, and recent experience with Ruby/Rails - High level of proficiency with our tech stack: - Ruby & Ruby on Rails - PostgreSQL - Sidekiq/Goodjob - Redis - RSpec and Cypress test suite - CI/CD using Buildkite, deploying to AWS many times a day - Datadog, Sentry, Segment.io http://Segment.io, Snowflake - A solid foundation in computer science and software design, with strong competencies in - clean code architecture (DRY isn’t everything!) - data structures & algorithms - distributed systems, event driven architecture, and background job processing - authentication and authorisation, and generally designing and writing code that upholds security best practices - caching strategies, design patterns, cloud architecture and tools - consuming and integrating with third party APIs, and comfortable w ... (truncated, view full listing at source)