Senior Backend Engineer
Getro is on a mission to unlock the hidden potential within professional networks, transforming how people discover and leverage warm introductions for hiring and sales. As a Senior Backend Engineer on our team, you’ll be crucial in crafting features that both accelerate and enrich every connection, helping our customers find new talent, enhance their sales, and make other impactful professional connections. You'll develop user-friendly flows, construct data pipelines that supply essential insights, and leverage AI-driven matching algorithms to forge more efficient and meaningful connections. Join us in our quest to make professional networking more personal.
Who We're Looking For
- **Impact-Driven:** You're motivated to craft solutions that make a real difference in people's professional lives. Your approach is thoughtful, always rooted in the real needs of users, and favours simplicity, efficiency and efficacy above all.
- **Agile Innovator:** Quick on your feet, you thrive in fast-paced environments, valuing learning and adaptability over perfection, making smart pivots based on user feedback and metrics.
- **Extreme Ownership:** Taking ownership comes naturally to you, driving projects forward with enthusiasm and persisting until they are successful.
- **Team Player:** You manage priorities effectively with a keen awareness of how your work can support the team.
- **Open, Collaborative Spirit:** You value diverse perspectives and excel in an environment of open communication and flexibility, ensuring the best ideas emerge regardless of their source.
Your Experience:
- 7+ years in software development with a strong background in a startup environment building web applications.
- Proficiency in Ruby is a must.
- Quick learner, able to adapt to our codebase quickly.
- Strong communicator, able to articulate ideas and collaborate effectively, avoiding ambiguities and misunderstandings.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with ML/AI feature development.
- Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (React is our choice), enabling you to unblock yourself with a frontend tweak when necessary.
- Experience working remotely, and an understanding of best practices that foster productivity and collaboration in a fully remote setting.
- Building SaaS applications.
What You'll Do:
- Design and implement elegant user-centric solutions alongside PMs and designers.
- Work with autonomy on large projects critical to our roadmap, aiming for simplicity and effectiveness.
- Write clean, well-tested and maintainable code.
- Contribute to defining our coding standards and best practices, and help to evolve our technical architecture.
- Enhance the performance, reliability and security of our systems.
- Foster an environment of rapid iteration and feedback, contributing to a culture that values innovation, learning, and impact.
**About Getro:**
