Senior Ruby Engineer

RM12–21k / mo

Tech stack

● Work location: Remote / Malaysia

● Accept remote work? Yes

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Ruby engineer and technical leader to scale up our

technical features and systems and build out our engineering team in Malaysia from the

ground up.

What product / project will this position be working on?

Our internal product, which we call the “People App”, currently powers support experiences for 1,000+ team members, spread across 12 countries.

What development phase is the product at?

Influx was founded in 2013 and has been growing consistently for most of that time.
Influx has reached a high growth phase—we doubled in the last year, and we’re expecting similar growth in 2022.
We're looking for engineers that are ready for a role that comes with a lot of autonomy and responsibility. Someone that can set a high standard and have a lot of say in how engineering gets done as the team grows.

What is your product trying to solve?

Influx builds full-service support teams that flex and scale monthly, enabling companies to deliver fast, high-quality support experiences, 24/7.
We help successful online business owners to focus on growing their business while still providing excellent, 24/7 customer service.

What department will this software developer be working in?

Software Engineering

What role will this software developer have in the department?

Senior Software Engineer

Who are my team members?

This role will be reporting to engineering manager: Dennis Hotson.

Other engineering contributors are Andrew Markham (Head of Security) and occasionally our two co-founders Mikey and Leni (who are both engineers).
About Dennis: I've been programming since I was 8 years old and I absolutely love getting stuck into challenging problems and finding creative solutions. I value simple, reliable and tasteful technology.
You can find out more about me and my side projects on my website: https://dn.ht/ :-)
Add link to products/projects
https://influx.com/

Development system and environment

What are the practices of sharing code?

Git for source control.
Most code lands straight on master. We have automated testing and continuous integration and an automatic release process using buildkite.
For bigger features we'll talk it through on Slack and make a pull-request when ready.

What are the initiatives to improve code quality?

Tech culture

What type of cross-functional work do you allow?

You can expect to work with many other talented and interesting folks at Influx. One of my favourite things about Influx is that we've built an engine for finding incredibly bright and talented people.

What learning opportunities/initiatives do you have?

You will be an early engineering team member and there is enormous room for learning and personal growth. You will have a lot of say in setting a high standard as the team continues to grow.
It's important to invest in the team. We value learning / training / mentoring / code review. We'll be looking for opportunities to learn and improve.

Hiring process

How many interview stages do you have?

Usually two interviews with potentially a third with a co-founder.

Please explain the stages

First interview will be with Engineering Manager Dennis Hotson
This will be a technical interview with technical questions.
Candidates will be expected to show a walkthrough for a change or pull request to a piece of code they made recently.
Second interview: we will ask you to prepare a short 5 minute presentation with some Q&A after. For the second half we'll give you a realistic business problem that we faced recently and you'll walk us through how you would solve it.
Third interview is a chat with one of Influx's co-founders to get to know each other.

Can you please clarify the probation period?

Minimum requirements

Experience with our technical stack: Ruby, Rails, Postgres
Someone that is curious, collaborative and ready to take ownership and responsibility.
Comfortable being part of a small, autonomous and distributed team.
Top-notch communication skills are essential.
Eager to learn and grow.
Experience designing and building efficient, reliable (yet maintainable) systems.

Why can you attract software developers to your company?

You will be working alongside other exceptionally talented engineers.
This is a rare opportunity to be an early team member in a high growth company.
If you're a senior engineer that is looking to accelerate your career path, there will be huge potential for taking on more ownership and responsibility.

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