Senior Software Engineer - Ruby

About Builder.ai

We’re on a mission to make app building so easy everyone can do it – regardless of their background, tech knowledge or budget. We’ve already helped thousands of entrepreneurs, small businesses and even global brands, like the BBC, Makro and Pepsi achieve their software goals and we’ve only just started.

Builder.ai was voted as one of 2023’s ‘Most Innovative Companies in AI’ by Fast Company, and won Europas 2022 ‘Scaleup of the Year’. Our team has grown to over 800 people across the world and our recent announcement of $250m Series D funding (and partnership with Microsoft) means there’s never been a more exciting time to become a Builder.

Life at Builder.ai

At Builder.ai we encourage you to experiment! Each role at Builder has unlimited opportunities to learn, progress and challenge the status quo. We want you to help us become even better at supporting our customers and take AI app building to new heights.

Our global team is diverse, collaborative and exceptionally talented. We hire people for their differences but all unite with our shared belief in Builder’s HEARTT values: (Heart, Entrepreneurship, Accountability, Respect, Trust and Transparency) and a let’s-get-stuff-done attitude.

In return for your skills and commitment, we offer a range of great perks, from hybrid working and a variable annual bonus, to employee stock options, generous paid leave, and trips abroad #WhatWillYouBuild

Why we need this role

Our Engineering team is growing quickly and we are hiring in every single team from our customer products (CX) & delivery tools (DX) all the way to our Assembly Line (BX) & Cloud systems teams.

You can check out how Builder works from a technical perspective here: https://www.builder.ai/under-the-hood

What you’ll be doing

• Architecting & designing scalable backend systems
• Integration & development of various microservices
• Creating unit tests using RSpec
• Reviewing other developers code as well as suggesting improvements
• Algorithm development & general optimization
• Setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborating cross functionally with various stakeholders including QA, DevOps, PMs, and other developers
• Solid understanding of deploying and maintaining Rails apps within the AWS environment.
• Ability to set up workers & deploy across multiple instances.
• Git experience, some would say you are a git master.

• Strong experience in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Familiar with one or more cloud provider’s services. Experience with containerized applications and infrastructure provisioning would be a plus.
• Experience working in fast-paced and dynamic scrum teams.
• Experience architecting and designing scalable solutions
• Working knowledge of standard CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis)
• A systematic debugging and problem solving methodology

Our Tech Stack

Our in house platform teams work with a variety of technologies that’ll you’ll get to play with. Experience in some would be an advantage but is not strictly necessary. Most important is using the right tool for the job so we’re always evaluating what tech makes the most sense and we’d love for you to have some input in this.

• Ruby, Ruby/Rails
• Docker and Kubernetes
• GitLab
• Postgres, Redis
• AWS, Azure