Senior Fullstack Engineer (Ruby on Rails) at OfferZen

The Opportunity

Our newly formed Marketplace Enablement squad is responsible for improving the experience and success rate for both candidates and companies in our marketplace, as well as enabling our operational teams to deliver a highly human service more effectively and efficiently at scale.

We are looking for a Fullstack JS Engineer to join our Marketplace Enablement squad as part of our larger product group. Our product squads are cross-functional teams of talented engineers, product managers and designers working together to design and deliver impactful and quality software.

We’re big on developer productivity (hence React, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails), continuous improvement (we’re currently doing Kent C. Dodds’ epicreact.dev) and delivering value to customers (check out the feature we released last quarter: https://lnkd.in/gKYRruQ). 

What you’ll do

• Design, test, and ship quality front-end and back-end ( Ruby-on-Rails & React) code every week to build impactful new features for our internal operational teams.
• Help design and architect backend features with the delivery team.
• Actively sharing knowledge with your peers and upskilling engineers through code reviews and pair-programming.
• Work with a wide range of systems, stakeholders, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from design to delivery.
• Uphold and improve our engineering standards and processes.
• Debug production issues across services at multiple levels of our stack
• Have conversations on architectural design & contributing to the technical requirements. Where needed, you are producing easy to understand technical documents.
• Contribute to the technical and product roadmap
• Actively contribute in Planning, Grooming, Retros & daily standup meetings.
• Contribute to the success of the team, and extending a helping hand to your team where needed.

You’ll be a great fit for this role if you:

• Have 5+ years experience in software development or Senior Developer for at least 2 years.
• Have some experience in Cloud Architectures (preferably AWS or Heroku).
• Are a quick learner looking to delivery maximum value in an autonomous environment whilst remaining accountable for their delivery
• Have experience working within a high growth tech startup/scale up is preferable
• Have excellent problem solving abilities that combine product design, process and technical aspects
• Have the ability to clearly articulate solutions for a technical and non-technical audience
• Have room in your closet for numerous free t-shirts :) 

What it's like to work here

We love to do fun stuff together. We are focused on building a connected tribe and a sense of belonging. We value unique and diverse approaches and ensure we create opportunities to share and learn from each other. We have regular online and in-person team events, show and tell and a book club as well as regional and annual off-site events.

We're dedicated to authenticity: We treat people as people, caring personally and speaking openly. We foster low-ego behaviour - we own our mistakes as well as our victories. We're never about blame. We're always about honesty, learning and continuous improvement. We ensure lots of transparency and visibility. From OKRs and strategy to analytics and company performance numbers, it's all available for you to see and understand.

We're passionate about learning and levelling up: Everyone at OfferZen strives for a growth mindset and has an annual training budget to use to upskill. We have internal book clubs which include free books, listen to podcasts, share expertise obsessively, and then take on hard challenges with smart guidance and support. When things go wrong, we look for learnings and how to improve.

We're all about balance: We believe that maintaining a healthy balance between home and work is the key to feeling happier and more productive. We work fully remote, provide an annual 'unsick' day to use at your leisure and also offer 24 days of leave a year which is available to use from the time you start. 

The OfferZen Story

OfferZen is on a mission to improve the experience of finding work for people involved in making software, from developers to designers and data scientists through the utilisation of our world class online recruitment marketplace. We do this by flipping the traditional recruitment model on its head and getting companies to reach out to candidates with upfront offers.

Over the last 6 years, we have managed to make a large dent in the South African online tech recruitment marketplace – and we're speeding up. We have a team of 150+ people with offices in both Cape Town and Amsterdam. At 6 years young, we're still in an exciting scale-up phase which allows us to develop new and exciting ideas, innovate our product, and think creatively about solving real problems.

• Empathy Can't Be Automated: Solving Complex Problems in a Tech Marketplace. This article gives more insight into the world of tech marketplace advisors and what they do.
• One of the Tech Talent Advisors, wrote about her experience of working at OfferZen on our blog.

If this role excites you and sounds like a great fit, please apply below!