Senior Backend Developer

Looking for a Senior Engineer to help us develop the backend of our social network for neighbourhoods. With our platform nebenan.de we enable people to connect and support each other in daily life so strangers become neighbours. We believe that by revitalizing urban neighbourhoods and encouraging exchange, shared activities and mutual assistance among neighbours we can contribute to a positive change in society towards a more humane, sustainable and secure living environment that offers a higher quality of life for everyone. Join our excellent international team now as Senior Backend Developer and help us to extend and maintain our core API while keeping infrastructure and QA happy. Sounds interesting? Just send us your CV including your availability and links you consider relevant for us (like to your GitHub profile, websites you worked on, blogs or other projects to Sven Tantau: sven@nebenan.de! We are looking forward to hearing from you! Your nebenan.de Team Your profile You have experience with ruby + rails and worked on some bigger projects already. You can predict, debug and pinpoint resource problems and faced scalability challenges in the past. You care about security Broad experience and exposure to many different languages and programming concepts is a big plus Effort estimation and cost control. You are Modest enough to listen to crazy ideas Strong enough to push back against crazy ideas Enjoy working independently in an agile environment Passionate about developing great software in a team Experience as a freelancer or in running your own company at some point in your career as well as German language skills would be a plus Our current stack ruby + rails json API for web and mobile clients node js to render our website postgresql + postgis, redis, elasticsearch running on AWS What we offer Become part of a small, excellent and international team with experienced QA support Responsibility for a product with meaning and social impact that many people use Open company culture and leadership based on competence Competitive compensation package Flexible working hours Open company culture, leadership based on competence A beautiful office in Kreuzberg, Berlin Please note, that the range specified is for a gross annual salary.