Ruby Back-End Engineer (offline)

Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams™, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations.

What will you be doing?

Making our product better, stronger, faster;
Implementing new features in partnership with our Product Department;
Tuning the application to make it more performant and scalable;
Innovating lightweight, robust, platform-agnostic RESTful APIs;
Designing an easy-to-maintain, easy-to-extend back end infrastructure.

What are we looking for?

Intermediate English or higher (B2+);
A BS or higher in a technical field (Computer Science, Math, Physics, etc.);
Experience in developing API-only applications;
Strong knowledge of Ruby 2.6+, Rails 5-6;
Relational DB’s (preferably PostgreSQL);
Background processing (Sidekiq), Redis;
Experience in high-velocity feature development focused projects before (b2b, b2c);

What skills will come in handy?

Experience contributing along the full web stack (Rails, Postgres, Javascript, HTML, CSS);
An interest in collecting data from disparate sources, whether via APIs or other means;
Experience working within a geographically dispersed team;
Demonstrated ability to expertly manage conflicting priorities;
High-bandwidth, high-energy, competitive, and creative individual;
Driven to outperform; dedicated to self-improvement.


Benefits

Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category;
Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company;
Competitive salaries;
Option of equity;
Close collaboration between UA and US team members;
Ultramodern office in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver);
Flexible working hours;
Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!);
English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office).

About Surprise.com

Surprise.com is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. We believe that driving organizational success by improving performance at the individual level represents our greatest opportunity to positively impact the way people live and work.

We’re committed to hiring builders who are inspired by our team’s guiding principle: to derive a tremendous sense of purpose from the inner quest for excellence itself. We take pride in developing deep user understanding, obsess about the details, and go the extra mile to show our users we love them. We are first and foremost customer driven — engineering, product and design collaborate as equals to create a phenomenal end user experience. We’re also home for numerous internal teams building internally facing tools for customer service, finance, and others, to keep the operation afloat.

Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Surprise.com is currently building a team of the best engineers, designers, and technologists in both Kyiv and Lviv (we are already ~100 strong).

Surprise.com offers the following benefits:
• Competitive salaries and equity
• 20 working days of paid vacation
• Ultramodern office in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Guliver)
• English classes
• Fruits and dinners
• And, of course, we get Surprises internally

Company website:
https://surprise.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/surprise-com/