Roles:
Backend
Must-have skills:
RailsRuby
Nice-to-have skills:
JavaScriptReactAngular
Considering candidates from:
Europe, Bulgaria, Croatia and Cyprus
Europe, Bulgaria, Croatia and Cyprus
Work arrangement: Remote
Industry: Online Audio and Video Media
Language: English
Level: Senior
Required experience: 5+ years
Size: 51 - 200 employees
Company
Devex is the media platform for the global development community. As a social enterprise, they connect and inform development, health, humanitarian and sustainability professionals through news, business intelligence and funding and career opportunities. The company was founded in 2000 and today they reach over 1 million aid workers and development professionals. Their headquarters is in Washington, DC., and they also have offices in Barcelona and Manila and reporters on 5 continents.
Description
Tasks:
- To design, implement, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
- You’ll focus on back-end technologies - mostly in Ruby - with occasional gigs in front-end or DevOps code as well. Your role would be on one of the Product Teams, focusing on the News or Jobs product line.
In your first 3 months you'll:
- Get to know your peers, set up your work environment, and become familiar with the processes
- Have your first contributions deployed to the production environment
- Build and release features as part of a small team
- Become familiar with the architecture of the entire software system
- Better understand the scope of Devex's services and mission
In your first year you'll:
- Have become an integral part of the product team
- Be capable of independently implementing high-level and sometimes vague tasks
- Be trusted to work autonomously to solve most problems that come up
- Take on technical leadership of individual projects
Must-have skills:
- Experience in developing professional web applications using server side MVC frameworks like Ruby on Rails
- A solid grasp of object-oriented programming and automated software testing
- Strong skills in written and spoken English
Benefits:
- Either fully employed in Spain or with a freelancer contract
- Flexible work hours and work from home (100% remote)
- Office in Barcelona in case you want to work from there
- 23 days paid vacation plus holidays
- 2 company-wide breaks of 1 week to rest and recharge
- 2 learning days plus learning stipend
- 2 YAY days to adventure as you like
- Private health and dental insurance
Interview process:
- Intro call with Toughbyte
- Screening call with People Operations Lead
- Intro interview with Engineering Manager
- Interview & code-review challenge with two members of the team
- Final interview & meet with the team