Software Engineer - Backend (Senior)

Mission

Write production-ready software designed for supporting business growth and bringing Atlas' delightful experiences to customers through teamwork and discipline.

Outcomes

• Own and oversee the backend service architecture, performance, reliability, and extensibility, including our Ruby on Rails servers, GCP deployments, and Cloudflare workers.
• Ensure that we write high-quality tests and achieve more than 90% test coverage.
• Make sure that we profile and understand the top 5 performance bottlenecks in the backend at all times.
• Create well documented, and performant API's that can support all front-end work seamlessly.

Competencies

• Proficient in writing Ruby.
• Proficient in writing tests with RSpec.
• Proficient in writing Javascript.
• Experienced with Ruby on Rails framework.
• Proficient in writing SQL.
• Experienced with Postgres.
• Strong understanding of command line and toolchains (e.g. Zsh, Vim, Tmux).
• Have a good grasp of serverless paradigms including deployments, scaling and security.
• Experienced in GraphQL or is willing to learn.
• Focus on delighting customers. Be maniac about customer experience. Does the CEO pay the bill? People Ops (HR)? No! The customers pay the bill. An excellent way to achieve this is to understand the problems our customers are facing intimately, treat them the way we would like to be treated, and make products we will actually use ourselves.
• Have abnormally high standards. Hold yourself and everyone to the highest standards. Care about every single detail. Every detail matters when you want to achieve greatness. Good standards are contagious. (Unfortunately, bad standards are too).
• Be extremely reliable. Always do what you say you will do. This is the best way to build up trust quickly. Be on time and present. Don’t give bullshit excuses. Don’t make the same mistake twice.
• Disagree and commit. Have conviction and fight for what you believe in. Respectfully challenge decisions. Do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision has been made, commit wholly to making it work.
• Make others successful. Put others ahead of yourself. We will get a lot more done if we don’t care who gets the credit. Genuinely want success for others and go out of your way to help them achieve it. Don’t wait for someone to ask for help or recognition. Giving is often better than receiving!

Responsibilities

• To lead the engineering team by setting high standards and creating scalable processes.
• Own the engineering team outcomes and support product management efforts.
• Be responsible for the technical interview process of hiring new engineers.
• Design and architect existing or new systems and platforms.
• Be responsible for creating a culture of code reviews and pair programming.
• Coach and mentor the team to be proficient in testing and completing the work by documenting all necessary information to the product manager or stakeholder.

What’s in it for you

Join us and be part of the founding team that helps shape:

1. Our company culture/principles
2. Product strategy
3. Engineering practices

You should include these in your application (Read more about working with us here: https://atlaskitchen.notion.site/Atlas-is-hiring-10X-people-be57413d013f441fa02a6afc856ea04b)

• CV or LinkedIn profile.
• Tell us about a time where you had to work on a task that seemed to be extremely challenging, and how you overcame it?
• What are your favourite projects? What motivates you? What is something you believe that nearly no one agrees with you on?