Ruby Backend Developer

About Piktochart

Our mission is to provide a design tool that’s both intuitive and indispensable. Whether you’re a marketer, teacher, or part of an internal communications team, we’re directing Piktochart to be laser-focused on what’s best for you and your goals.

No complex design software. No heavy designer fees. Just a simple, intuitive tool that helps you tell your story with the visual impact it deserves.

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Position

We are a small team passionate about everything backend, using a variety of technologies to bring a stable and high-performance experience to our users. We are looking for someone that shares the same passion and vision to create and innovate and has a “thing” for automation.

Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your teammates into the application.

What you will be working on:

• Design, build, maintain and innovate with a focus on Maintainability, Readability, Efficiency, Reusability, Reliability of our production code or internal tools
• Analyze software performance and perform system/code optimization
• Integrate user facing elements developed by front end developers with server side
• Integrate external services and resources into applications
• Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests

Your qualification

• 3+ years working on web applications built on Ruby OR Golang
• Have previous experience with Mysql OR with other data stores such as Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres
• Experience in implementing robust set of services with RESTful APIs to power web applications
• Experience with cloud platforms, high-availability systems, data indexing, automated testing
• Bonus points if you are familiar with Python and nodejs
• Enthusiastic about collaborating in a small team and inter-disciplinary environment
• You must be a self-starter and open to receive feedback
• You should be self-motivated to build great products and achieve excellence

Additional details

Who are we?

The close-knit team behind Piktochart brings you a web application that empowers people who cannot design to create visual content. Some of our users include educators from Harvard, product managers at Google, Starwood Hotels, PWC and many non-profit organizations, freelancers and entrepreneurs. They use Piktochart based on our ability to help them design a compelling story. Piktochart started out with our faith and family as our foundation. We love what we do and our users, and constantly try to get better at our craft!