Backend Staff Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

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Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform, powering impactful communities.
The Role
As a Staff Engineer, you will lead a technical project while coding and mentoring your team. Your responsibilities include developing integrations, designing new features, managing technical debt, and ensuring code quality. You will also proactively identify and mitigate potential technical issues affecting product launch or maintainability.
Summary Generated by Built In

Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create impactful communities. 


Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Boeing, the Obama Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy, the British Heart Foundation, the Imperial College London, the P&G Alumni France, and Le Wagon Alumni. 


We employ over 170 people across our entities in Paris, New York, the UK, and Sydney, and 30+ nationalities are represented in our team! 🌍


At Hivebrite, we believe in the importance of balancing your work commitments and personal life. You’re able to have a real impact on meaningful communities while prioritizing your personal life and goals. Our work policy encourages a healthy work-life harmony with a flexible schedule.

We also have many initiatives to keep our global team connected, offering opportunities to meet and socialize with team members virtually and in-person! 👋


For these reasons, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France last year! 🏆


Jump aboard, and join the hive! 🚀


🌟 YOUR ROLE WILL BE

  • As a Staff Engineer, you will spend a lot of your time writing code, but also bring your experience to leading a technical project alongside a Product Manager. Your goal is to build scaling solutions by making tech decisions and to mentor technically your team.
  • Attached to a squad, you will also work on transversal topics (SSO, SEO, Sign up, etc...)
  • Ensure code quality within your projects.
  • Managing technical debt (rework, refactoring) and understand the difference between short-sighted business decisions and impact technical health in the long run.

🌟 YOUR MISSION WILL BE

  • Practice disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing efficiency code).
  • Develop integrations with 3rd party software programs (Webhooks, API, deep integrations).
  • Design, develop, test and implement new product features.
  • Deeply think through the product and its technical feasibility and implications.
  • Proactively flag and de-risk any technical issues that might greatly affect the product’s launch or maintainability.

🌟 YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF

  • 8+ years of programming experience in Ruby or Python 🚂
  • One experience in a leadership position.
  • Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism.
  • Deep knowledge in architectures patterns.
  • Comfortable with DevOps aspects and tooling (K8s, Docker).
  • Experience working on backend systems at a large-scale internet service.
  • Track record of designing and implementing complex and scalable software services.

🌟 NICE TO HAVE

  • Experience in document oriented databases like Elasticsearch.
  • Experience with another language like Golang.
  • Open-source contributions.

🌟 RECRUITMENT PROCESS

  • Meet Ruben, our Tech Recruiter, for a first video-call to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions (60 mins).
  • Meeting with Samy (Engineering Manager) and Valentin (Software Engineer) to talk about the current tech challenges, the team and the way we work. There will also be a live coding exercice on Rails (60 mins).
  • Meet 2 Senior Backend Engineers to discuss around a technical architecture review exercise (90 mins).
  • Meet Tarek, our CPTO, to speak about your long-term involvement with Hivebrite (60 mins).

🌟HIVEBRITE'S PERKS & BENEFITS:


Work-Life balance: 

- Support for mental health via Moka Care (sessions paid by Hivebrite, collective sophrology sessions, etc.) 💆

- A Gymlib access for you to practice any physical activity you want 💪

- A really flexible remote policy detailed here 🏡

- Around two weeks of RTT to enjoy more time off with your friends and familly 🏝

- Paid leaves for parents with sick kids 🤒

- Nomad days policy (work from almost anywhere you'd like, up to 12 weeks per year, at once or throughout the year) - check out the full policy here ✈️


Office life: 

- International team - you will easily hear 3 different languages in the same conversation 🌍

- Morning’s office in the center of Paris with a rooftop just for us! 

- Squads days for our engineering team - two days per month we meet at the office 💡

- Team building with dedicated budget for events every month with your team and yearly with your entire department 🎉

- Internal mobility and professional training to support your career 🚀

- Check out our instagram page here to discover our team and this page, to know more about us 📷

- Your Employee Journey detailed here 🍃


On the financial side: 

- Of course, all the mandatory benefits, but with the best companies to support you (Alan, lunch vouchers with Swile, etc.) 

- CSE advantages with Swile 🎁

- A competitive salary package - we constantly ensure that we're aligned with the market 🤝

- A 500€ remote equipment allowance and a work-from-home starter kit (desk, chair, etc…) 🖥️

- The latest Apple’s equipment 🍏

Top Skills

Python
Ruby

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The Company
HQ: New York City, NY
195 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Headquaterted in France, our mission is to help organizations build instrumental communities: managed, actionable networks where users can easily reach out to each other, as well as share and access structured resources and professional opportunities.

We’ve developed a powerful solution that allows our clients to easily brand, customize, and engage their communities. Leveraging modern design standards and an advanced suite of functionality, organizations can offer their stakeholders a dedicated networking space where they can share knowledge and experiences, benefit from targeted opportunities, and keep in contact with both the program and each other.

With hundreds of clients in more than 40 countries, offices in Paris and New York, the startup launched in 2015 already has prestigious clients such as Boeing, Kraft Heinz, Pokemon, Adidas, WWF, the United Nations, New York Stock Exchange; as well Stanford, MIT, Columbia, and Princeton Universities.

Why Work With Us

Our entrepreneurial team values initiative, thinking outside of the box, autonomy, and humility. We are fast-growing company with international reach that offers many opportunities for increasing your responsibilities over time within Hivebrite. While we work very hard at what we do, there's also time to balance your personal life and priorities.

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Hivebrite Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

For those who live in the NYC tri-state area, we come to the office about 2x/week, sometimes more or less depending on meetings, visitors, lunch or Happy hours! We are flexible with schedules and what our employee's need! 😎

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQNew York, NY
Paris, France
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