Senior Backend Engineer - Ruby (Multiple Openings)

<p>Come join a company who is a key leader in the industry scaling the next core commerce infrastructure and on the path from $100M to $500M! Founded in 2012, Salsify helps brand manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in over 80 countries collaborate to win on the digital shelf. As the market leader globally, our products are shopper-centric, frictionless, and create memorable commerce experiences. Our products provide a competitive edge through experiences that improve brand trust, amplify product differentiation and assortments, increase conversion rate, improve profit margins, and speed time to market.</p> <p>Learn how the world’s largest brands, including Mars, L'Oreal, Coca-Cola, Bosch, and GSK, as well as retailers and distributors such as E.Leclerc, Carrefour, Metro, and Intermarché use Salsify everyday to stand out on the digital shelf.</p> <p>At Salsify, we strive to embody an equitable, diverse, and inclusive company culture. We are united across countries, levels, tenures, and a host of other dimensions of diversity. We understand that while work is just one aspect of who we are, a truly inclusive culture accounts for the full authenticity of every single human being that works here. </p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>About the Opportunity</strong></h3> <p> </p><p>Salsify pioneered the first Product Experience Management (PXM) platform to help brand manufacturers win more sales, and grow market share online. We work with a growing roster of hundreds of leading brands across the globe including Coca-Cola, Bosch, GSK, Rawlings, and Fruit of the Loom. We’ve come a long way since starting in a Boston basement in late 2012, and now have great, happy customers across the entire supply chain, from brands to distributors to retailers to marketplaces.</p> <p>We're looking for talented and passionate developers who want to be part of joining our growing teams. We already have a very experienced, solid team that we want to take to the next step in scaling and making even more successful.</p> <p>As a Senior Software Engineer at Salsify you will be entrusted to innovate and constantly improve our products to deliver a platform and experience our customers love to use. You will solve complex business and scalability problems and help define the direction of the product as well as work across the entire Salsify technology ecosystem building and maintaining back-end services and APIs in Ruby and Python, interacting directly with Retailers, Marketplaces and E-Commerce platforms like Amazon, Walmart, BigCommerce, Shopify and much more. Our engineers are simultaneously scaling a demanding application while simplifying complex business processes for our users and learning from top engineers along the way.</p> <p>We deeply value our engineering culture. We strongly emphasize clarity, competence and autonomy. We care about building the right thing, the right way, and having fun while we do it. Every member of our team has the freedom and responsibility to make Salsify a great place to work.</p> <p> </p> <h2><strong>How You'll Make an Impact:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Build and ship production-grade software using some or all of the following technologies:</li> <ul> <li>Python, Go, Ruby</li> <li>MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis</li> <li>Azure Cloud, AWS</li> <li>Kubernetes</li> </ul> <li>Set technical direction and help define the technical approach for the work the team takes on.</li> <li>Work closely with product and engineering management to help define the product roadmap.</li> <li>Collaborate with go-to-market teams to launch new functionality.</li> <li>Grow as a leader both on the team and within the broader engineering organization. </li> <li>Mentor new team members as the team grows.</li> <li>Participate in tech talks and guilds to exchange ideas and strategies that advance our ability to build quality software.</li> <li>Be proud of what you work on, learn from and give back to your team and the broader Salsify community - contribute to the success of an exciting and fast growing Boston-based company with global customers.</li> </ul> <h2> </h2> <h2><strong>You'll Enjoy This Role If You Have:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>5+ years of commercial software development experience</li> <li>Experience in Python (Go and/or Ruby knowledge is a plus)</li> <li>Experience building consumer facing applications in a SaaS or product-based company, specializing in back-end development</li> <li>Experience with contemporary frameworks, build tools, and testing tools</li> <li>A drive to build scalable and performant applications -- you know that just because a query returns the results you need, it may not be the most efficient approach</li> <li>An interest in exchanging ideas around building robust, secure, maintainable software</li> <li>Comfort providing and receiving feedback on implementation ideas</li> <li>Thoughtful opinions about efficient and secure deployment practices</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h2><strong>What We Have for You:</strong></h2> <ul> <l