Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby, Contract)

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We’re Indeed Flex, a revolutionary app for temporary work empowering jobseekers with the fastest way to find work that fits their lifestyles. Through our evolving technology, we’re putting work in the palm of people’s hands, enabling them to decide where, when and how they work at the click of a button.

We are Indeed Flex. We Help People Get Jobs. Right now, we’re hiring!
The current staffing model is broken, with low wages and limited opportunities. As flexible work continues to grow, we’re taking a radically different approach: providing job seekers with control, ownership and choice, so employees can find the working patterns and scenarios to suit their lifestyles. In doing so, we aim to revolutionize the industry.
After demonstrating our approach throughout the UK under the Syft brand, we were acquired by Indeed.com in 2019 and we rebranded to Indeed Flex in 2020. With continued independence and phenomenal levels of support we’ve been able to accelerate our mission as we expand throughout the US as well as the UK. Fast growth creates tremendous opportunities - come and join a team of inquisitive, passionate, and driven individuals helping each other grow and building something meaningful!
We are looking for x6 Senior Backend Engineers for 12 month contracts who can be based remotely within +4/-4 hours of UK time zone.
Minimum Requirements:
 
  • 5+ years of strong experience building and maintaining the backend of software products using Ruby, Rails and PostgreSQL.
 
  • Demonstrated, hands-on experience scaling monolithic applications and working in microservice architectures.
 
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
 
  • A product mindset. You’re able to understand business requirements and translate them into small pieces that can be delivered and validated incrementally.
 
  • Must be a self-starter with high initiative, and be comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
 

Ideal candidates will:
 
  • Have experience with other languages and frameworks, especially experience of building for scale.
 
  • Have full-stack experience - you’d have the opportunity to exercise those skills at Indeed Flex!
 
  • Have experience with A/B testing and data-driven methods
 
  • Competitive day rates
  • Outside IR35