Software Developer (BI Solutions)

About Smartly.io

At its heart, Smartly.io is a product company. We’re building tools that help our customers work smarter and grow their businesses.

We want to be the best in the world at what we do—building a world-class product and service for our customers. The only way to succeed is to stay humble yet ambitious. We ask for and act on candid feedback to learn continuously from both our customers and teammates. We don’t rest on our laurels, there’s always room to improve.

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Position

Smartly.io's cross-functional team works at the intersection of business and engineering. Join Smartly.io as a Software Developer if you can drive company's vision of making the whole organisation truly data driven. Our team provides the internal infrastructure for data visualisation and analysis. Therefore, people skills are precious to also understand the needs of non-technical stakeholders in order to implement the solution as a whole.

Our team works with software in many areas of the organisation. We are seeking for the potential and constantly learning new stuff. You are not obliged to be familiar with technology in our stack in advance, although we appreciate if you have experience in the UNIX backend ecosystem.

We work with technologies like Message Queues (Redis, RabbitMQ), Databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), Database Abstractions (ActiveRecord, Sequelize), HTTP APIs (GraphQL, REST), Background Processing (Sidekiq, Sneakers), various languages (Ruby, Node.js Python, PHP, SQL), private cloud (Docker, Kontena.io) and online services like Salesforce, NetSuite, Periscope and Hubspot.

Responsibilities:

• Influence on what our team should do next
• Collaborate with our sales teams, product development and software developers
• Design and build complete solutions to integrate various backend services together
• Develop and improve our toolset which gathers data from various services and data sources to our Business Intelligence database
• Review other developers’ code right from the start
• Push code to production during your first week and, if you want to, demo your features at the weekly all hands meetings
• Take part in our highly technical customer support and help the team to fix bugs
• If you enjoy travelling you will have the opportunity to travel to meet our customers and team members in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Buenos Aires or Berlin
• Participate in defining our company goals and roadmap in dialog with the leadership in our flat organization

Your qualification

• Fond of Ruby, Sidekiq or ActiveRecord, although working knowledge of any modern programming language is fine. Eager to learn overweights existing knowledge of tech buzzwords
• Understand and work with SQL
• Experienced in designing and consuming APIs such as REST, GraphQL and third party services with each having their own unique differences
• Are able to dig out details and requirements from different stakeholders and translate that to code
• Can touch frontend code when necessary. We are not build much anything frontend related, but from time to time we need to create an UI for things we have built

What we offer

• Work with the nicest and brightest teammates in a highly autonomous self-organizing team
• Opportunity to travel to meet Customers, Facebook and Smartlies at our offices around the world via our Developer Rotation program
• Option plans
• Full 5 weeks of paid annual leave 
• Healthcare insurance/service
• Personal development (tools, events, etc.) reimbursement
• Enjoy weekly breakfasts and quarterly dinners with the team

Additional details

The Recruiting Process:

1. First meeting: we want to know who you are and what motivates you before diving deeper into your tech skills. This is also a chance for you to learn more about Smartly.io.
2. Technical interview: we’re trying to get a clear overview of your skills and where you could learn more by discussing areas relevant to you ranging from frontend development to security, networks, and development methods.
3. Coding exercise: we’ll be pair programming in Node environment to make sure that you can also code. Previous experience with Node.js or JavaScript is not necessarily required, as the session will be very interactive.
4. Meet your future team to learn what they are working with. After that the final interview with our VP of Engineering and your team lead.