Zoolatech

We are a marketplace where users can compare personalized, prequalified rates and quotes from multiple lenders and carriers, for student loans, mortgages, personal loans, and insurance. 

We’re challenging the status quo by giving power to the consumer. We believe in a world where ‘ethical’, ‘lending’, and ‘insurance’ can coexist, so we set out to build innovative platforms that actually work for customers. Our mission is to help people find the best loan or insurance policy possible. 

We believe researching and buying loans or insurance shouldn’t be confusing or complex, so we’ve focused on simplicity. We’ve created the only unbiased loan and insurance buying process out there, which makes finding options straightforward and clear. 

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services
• Build and maintain shared code libraries in Ruby and Javascript
• Maintain and evolve our microservice architecture, including Kafka and GraphQL APIs
• Design and build improvements to our development processes, including testing strategy
• Support and troubleshoot production systems
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating, analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions
• Participating in the code reviews and design discussions with other engineers
• Have a strong sense of end to end ownership
• Adhere to key principles: Code and design for best performance, scalability and resiliency
• Participate in Agile planning and standup meetings
• Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software
• Be a self-starter, capable of solving ambiguous and challenging technical problems with wide scope
• Deliver trustworthy solutions for engineers allowing them to focus on experimentation, evolution, and delivery of high-quality features
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions
• Backend development including design, documentation, implementation, and testing
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices

Skills Required

• 5+ years experience with back-end development using Ruby on Rails.
• Experience building API base applications.
• Understand data structure and distributed system microservice concepts
• Understanding of the web stack, including HTML/CSS, Javascript, JSON, HTTP requests.
• Experience with Relational Databases and SQL (MySQL preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• English - active intermediate level or higher.

Nice to have:

• Experience with GraphQL.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and services (AWS preferred) for deploying and managing applications.
• Experience with RSpec or similar unit test frameworks for RoR.
• Understanding Agile methodologies and CI/CD best practices.
• Being ready to work with FE is a plus.