Senior Back-End Engineer (RoR)

<strong>Hiring Ranges:</strong> Remote Germany: 68,000 EUR - 100,000 EUR   <p>To learn more about our Hiring Range System, please click this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ylUe7Ou0EbsOtGRBtUv1sSld3lbZ4mrYzo59tEkSjY8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">link.</a></p> <p><strong>Why Mozilla?</strong></p> <p>Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company behind pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, <strong>a service for keeping up with the best articles online</strong>. More than <strong>225</strong> million people around the world use its products each month.</p> <p>Along with <strong>60,000</strong>+ volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozilla Corporation’s staff are driven by our mission <strong>to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all</strong>. We design, build and distribute <strong>open-source</strong> software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.</p> <p><strong>About this team and role:</strong></p> <p>Fakespot is now part of Mozilla, where our mission to bring trust and transparency back to the eCommerce space is now aligned with ensuring the Internet is a global resource, open and accessible to all. Fakespot leverages machine learning and other state-of-the-art technologies to automatically filter out spurious reviews of products and vendors so consumers can make informed purchasing decisions based on real feedback by real people. We are looking for a mid-level engineer to join the Fakespot team within Mozilla. </p> <p><strong>What you’ll do: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Creating robust, scalable, highly loaded applications</li> <li>Maintaining and troubleshooting existing applications</li> <li>Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs</li> <li>Maintaining and expanding APIs</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll bring: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Minimum 3 years of professional work experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails</li> <li>Excellent learning ability</li> <li>Ability to write efficient algorithms, and clean code</li> <li>Good knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL</li> <li>Experience working with Sidekiq, RSpec and other common RoR libraries</li> <li>Working knowledge of Git, Docker</li> <li>Good knowledge of full stack web development</li> <li>Commitment to our values:</li> <ul> <li>Welcoming differences</li> <li>Being relationship-minded</li> <li>Practicing responsible participation</li> <li>Having grit</li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus Points for…</strong></p> <ul> <li>Golang, Python, Kubernetes deployments</li> <li>Working with high traffic systems</li> <li>Background processing experience</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll get:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Generous performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees - we share in our success as one team</li> <li>Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage</li> <li>Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)</li> <li>Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together</li> <li>Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday</li> <li>One-time home office stipend</li> <li>Annual professional development budget</li> <li>Quarterly well-being stipend</li> <li>Considerable paid parental leave</li> <li>Employee referral bonus program</li> <li>Other benefits (life/AD&amp;D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)</li> </ul> <p><strong>About Mozilla </strong></p> <p>Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.</p> <p><strong>Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging</strong></p> <p>Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission.  We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.</p> <p>We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at <a href="mailto:hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com">hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com</a> to request accommodation.</p> <p>We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairst