Headquarters: Gent, Belgium
URL: https://silverfin.com/
We start with the cliff notes about the position. If this appeals to you, continue reading for a longer text about working at Silverfin and your role.
At Silverfin, we’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Although we know we’re not perfect yet, we are working hard on it and always open for your feedback.
We’re committed to elevating talent by creating an environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.
What can we offer you?
* Actual, proper work-life balance
* A salary range of €99.000 – €134.000 a year
* Flexible working hours and work 100% remotely
* Personal growth training and opportunities
* Join a distributed remote-first engineering team with 40 colleagues in 14 different countries on two continents
* A refreshing work environment with professional, friendly and welcoming colleagues
* A €1200 yearly budget for conferences, courses, workshops or other expenses that will improve your skills
* Two engineering retreats per year, somewhere in Europe
* Ten company-wide Wellbeing Days per year for all employees (once a month, except in July and August)
What will you work on?
* Building and maintaining integrations with accountancy software packages and APIs
* Improving and expanding our on-premise Ruby CLI/service which runs on hundreds of our customer’s systems
* Work on user facing functionalities
* Help with discovery and delivery of a solution for user or business problems
What are we looking for?
* You’re experienced in both Ruby and Rails, and also understand where the boundaries lie between them.
* You have some experience using Javascript framework(s).
* You enjoy integrating with APIs and aren’t easily dissuaded when encountering unreliable or poorly documented systems.
* You code with reason and can justify the important decisions you made during development.
* You can communicate clearly in English, both in writing and verbally.
* You’re up for mentoring coworkers and can give in-depth, productive feedback during code reviews.
* You know and can apply best practices when relevant.
* You’re aware of the trade-offs involved in proper engineering and can make balanced business decisions.
* You’ve got opinions on code design and you can discuss them professionally.
If you’re any good at Ruby, this is probably not the first job ad you’ve seen, so we’ve done our best to stand out while also accurately presenting what we’re all about. If it sounds like you would enjoy working with us, don’t hesitate to apply or drop us a line with questions on engineering-jobs@silverfin.com.
What does working at Silverfin look like?
Our ops team ensures things run smoothly, deploys happen correctly, and will work with you when issues should arise. We’re enthusiastic followers of the devops mindset, which means ops and developers work together to solve problems.
Software for accountants is not considered to be very exciting, but we have our fair share of technical challenges.
What does your future look like?
Personal growth is key to staying motivated. At Silverfin you don’t need to move to management in order to advance.
Requirements
* You have at least 4 years of experience working with Ruby, or 2 years of experience with Ruby and 4 years in one or more other programming languages
* You get Rails
* You have experience with designing or integrating with APIs
* Your work hours have some overlap with EU business hours (we require your local timezone to be within CET +/- 3h)
* You can communicate clearly in English, both written and verbally
Nice to haves
* Experience as a remote worker in a fully remote team
* Experience working with large datasets and the problems they bring
* Experience in Fintech
* Accounting knowledge
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/silverfin-experienced-ruby-engineer
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