Senior Backend Engineer

About WeTransfer

WeTransfer was founded in 2009 as the simplest way to send big files around the world. Today we’re a set of beautifully obvious tools to keep your ideas moving. At WeTransfer we understand you’ve got better things to do. It’s why, after ten years, we still keep things simple, make things stylish and stay away from any funny business.

In 2019, Fast Company named WeTransfer one of the world’s most innovative design companies “for being a one-stop-shop for creativity tools.”

Position

WeTransfer is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will be responsible for the happiness of millions of users by implementing new features as well as ensuring our codebase stays nice and shiny. You will do this in a team of passionate engineers that owns the analyse and transform parts of our content platform.

Your team enables rich content experiences across all our products and delivers new product features using smart content attribution. Think previewing of any file format imaginable, or intelligent classification of content for new visual ways of presenting to the user.

Our main toolkit includes Rails for our majestic monolith, Rack, Sinatra and Sqewer for our services, RSpec for testing, and a number of supporting libraries. We prefer to work with people that understand that tools are just tools, not the main goal, and can find the most suitable solution for any given problem.

We bring our code to production using continuous integration and self-service deployments. Enabled by infrastructure as code built on top of the platform-as-a-service provided by our platform team, we own our products end-to-end.

Your qualification

• You are passionate about making scalable and maintainable systems
• You speak Ruby fluently (you know your Rspec from your Minitest, your Exception from your StandardError, your Symbol from your String and your stabby lambda from your Proc)
• 5+ years experience in software development
• Experience writing highly-scalable systems and building cloud-based solutions
• Comfortable presenting own ideas to a team

Will be a plus

• Experience in languages other than Ruby (e.g., Go, Python, C or Haskell)
• Contributed to Open Source projects