Senior Ruby Engineer - Remote Europe

Remote in Portugal·Full-time·Added over a year ago

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Reedsy

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Overview

Job details

£60,000 - £100,000 a year
Gross, as stated in the ad.
Full-time hours
Per the ad.
Fully remote
Only from certain places, per the ad: “based anywhere in Europe”

Requirements

Have 5+ years of experience
Senior-level role.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

Work from home;
Paid paternal and maternal leave;
Annual team retreat

£60k - £100k

The role

Our objective is to build the best ecosystem for writers, providing support at any stage of their journey. We have built a number of products at Reedsy over the years, including a marketplace, a book discovery platform, a writing app, a central authentication system, an email marketing app and many more. We have ambitious new features in the pipeline for each of those and we need your help!

What you'll do

Here's what you'll be doing:

Architect and develop highly scalable web applications;
Work closely with our designers and engineers to design, build, and ship new features from scratch;
Evaluate and improve the performance, durability, and security of applications in production;
Take ownership for your tasks and see features through from start to finish;
Build RESTful APIs.

description

We welcome applicants based anywhere in Europe.

Requirements

What we're looking for

5+ years with Ruby on Rails at production level
Experience with SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis) databases
Unit tests (RSpec) and QA testing tools and techniques
Git advanced knowledge
Strong emphasis with Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
Perfectly fluent in English, great communication skills
Experience working remotely

Nice to have

Experience with Elasticsearch
Experience with deployment automation tools
Experience building production-grade applications integrating LLMs
A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor

About Reedsy

Reedsy is a London-based marketplace that connects authors and publishers with a curated network of freelance professionals, including editors, designers, and marketers. The company also develops a suite of publishing tools, such as Reedsy Studio and Reedsy Learning, and has facilitated over 10,000 book collaborations. It operates globally, with a strong remote-first culture and a distributed team across Europe and beyond.

Reedsy has a significant remote presence in Spain, with numerous open roles for Spanish-based professionals, including engineering, design, marketing, and customer support positions. The company values flexibility and autonomy, offering fully remote work arrangements. For international hires, Reedsy provides an opportunity to work in a dynamic, fast-growing startup within the publishing tech space, with a diverse, multicultural team.

Industry: Publishing
Founded: 2014
Employees: 50–200
Headquarters: London, UK
Website: reedsy.com

In their own words

About the company & team

We're here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals - the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM's cover designer.

We've grown to a community of 5,000,000 authors, and transformed the way people write and publish their book. Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!

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