Who we are
Blackbird Lab is a software development company. While we are practicing international working culture, we are proud representatives of Ukrainian values and traditions. We are a team of 90+ energetic, curious, smart, and open to new challenges tech pros who prefer efficient async communication, flexible working hours, a co-working office model, etc.
Being in this craft for about 5 years, we managed to accumulate expertise and bring value to a number of clients. We cooperate with US and Canadian product companies of different sizes, from small startups to established products, in close, trusted relationships.
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All team members, including management, have an engineering background. The process, participants who speak the same language and have a similar approach based on technical principles, is always efficient. It is way easier to make decisions and introduce new features in a team with engineering at heart. It is the technical DNA that lets us build high-quality products that facilitate the lives of our customers’ users.
Position & client
Our client is a company that helps shoppers to provide for their families by making life more affordable. The product is built to work with over 90% of retailers in North America. Retailers use a digital shopping marketplace to connect with millions of shoppers to deliver a personalized experience.
The backend of the project is built on Ruby. You will use technology to solve business problems, specifically in the context of local savings & deals content.
Stack of the project
- Predominantly Ruby on Rails
- Kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
- GitHub, AWS, CircleCI, Docker, Databricks, Datadog, OpsGenie
- Modern event-driven microservices architecture & legacy monolithic applications
Responsibilities
- Working with other development team members, product owner, and scrum master to estimate and deliver business-impacting solution every sprint
- Developing new features and improvements
- Developing and enhancing continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines for the team
- Designing and implementing unit and integration tests to assure the safety of your code
- Fixing bugs and refactoring code to improve internal and open-source packages
Requirements
- ~3 years of commercial experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- A willingness to share insights and mistakes and receive feedback
- Experience with testing frameworks
- Understand HTTP basics
- Experience in developing RESTful APIs
- Good knowledge of the Git and UNIX environment
- Intermediate English speaking level
Will be a plus
- Good knowledge of SQL (MySQL)
- Experience with Cloud (AWS)
- Experience with Docker
- Examples of real-world projects with available source code (public repository or archive of the source)
Team setup & processes
- Technical Project Manager (Ukraine)
- Middle QA Engineer (Ukraine)
- Full Stack Engineer (Ukraine)
- Ruby Engineer (Ukraine) - open position
Interview process
- HR interview (30 mins)
- Interview with Senior Engineer (60 min) + Project Manager (30 min)
Benefits
We are all for the self-development of each team member. As a part of our team, you’ll be supported in your professional growth, work on Macs, receive certifications, and visit conferences. On top of that, you will enjoy an attractive social package, including
- Сompetitive monthly compensation
- Flexible working schedule
- Working remotely
- 18 paid vacation working days
- Paid sick leaves (with 5 undocumented days per year)
- Health support with medical insurance or sports programs
- English lessons, sports activities, and charity events
- Full support of Private Entrepreneur reporting services (ФОП)
