We are looking for a Backend Engineer to play a key role in our expanding core technology group that translates our vision into a solid SaaS product that performs, scales and is easy to use. The Backend Engineer is expected to explore and learn new technologies, lead the design and implementation of the backend, reason and communicate your opinions as well as accept others’ approaches.

Responsibilities:

As part of your role you will:

• Participate in the design, build and maintain the backend micro-services infrastructure, working with a team of strong tech leads.
• Take part in designing, developing and delivering scalable features to support Nemo’s vision in a timely and quality manner.
• Collaborating with team members on technological and architectural topics.
• Work closely with our research team, developers, product, operations and other team members to define and plan the future of the system.
• Be proactive, striving to understand why things are done the way they are.

Requirements:

• Proven experience with server-side development, preferably also in a startup environment.
• In-depth knowledge of Ruby (and preferably also Rails)
• Experience in working in a micro-services oriented architecture.
• A clean coder with readable, simple, and maintainable code. Ability to recognize bad code, leave things better than how they were found and continuously search for better solutions.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (testing!, code reviews etc.) and are awareness of bad practices and anti-patterns.
• Ability to debug and investigate production issues.
• Meticulous regarding tests, quality and coverage.
• Knowledge in Databases (SQL, NoSQL, Key-Value).
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes.
• Familiar with AWS eco-system.
• Ability to conduct performance analysis for a system and find its bottlenecks.