Senior Ruby Backend Engineer with affinity for observability (d/w/m)

Hypofriend has helped thousands of customers navigate the difficult journey of buying a home.

Our online platform helps customers from calculating their affordability to getting matched to relevant properties to calculating and processing the optimal mortgage.

As a Senior Backend Engineer with an affinity for observability, you would be supporting both a customer-facing and an advisor-facing product that run on Vue.

js, GraphQL, and Ruby on Rails, powered by AWS.

Our customer-facing products include complex calculators wrapped in a simple UI, with a powerful calculation engine that takes thousands of mortgage products and optimizes them for our customers.

Our advisor-facing products include a fully-fledged back-office that ensures customer interactions over email, chat, and telephone — as well as the processing and handling of mortgage applications and financial documents — are reliable, efficient, and secure.

You'll help ensure our calculation engines, back-office tools, and customer-facing platform become more resilient and secure as we grow.

Tasks 💪🏽 Individuals who like getting things done 💬 Excellent communication.

Habilidades

, able to work closely with backend engineers and product teams 🔍 Eagerness to understand the systems end-to-end, from application code to the infrastructure it runs on 🔧 Someone who is as comfortable writing infrastructure-as-code as they are debugging a production incident 📈 A pragmatic approach to reliability — building the right amount of resilience, focussing on the key building blocks and clean architecture Our technology stack ⚙️ Backend Ruby 4.0 (Rails 8.1) PostgreSQL 16 Serverless Ruby, Node.JS, Python 🖌️ Frontend Vue.js 3 CSS3 (flex & friends) 👷🏽 Infrastructure AWS: ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront Terraform for infrastructure-as-code CI/CD pipelines 🔍 Testing & Reliability RSpec Monitoring & alerting tooling

Requisitos

Strong commercial experience with Ruby (min 4-5 years), ideally including Ruby on Rails 7/8 RSpec experience Good gra...