Sr. Backend Engineer

Description

About us 

Intellum is the leader in corporate education technology and powers the largest, most successful customer, partner, and employee learning programs in the world. Large brands and fast-moving companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Walmart, Xero, Atlassian, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Stripe, and TikTok rely on Intellum to engage and educate the audiences they touch. 

We have always been a “remote first” company and are proud to have team members located all over the world. We value Curiosity, Creativity, Perseverance, and Kindness and strive to demonstrate these core values every day. Our culture is very important to us. We invest in our people in fun and exciting ways, including personal development budgets and an annual all-company retreat that is focused less on work and more on human connections. We are in growth mode, and our “smart growth” approach ensures that we will continue to scale our company effectively.

Summary 

  

Under the supervision of the Manager of Engineering, it is the job of a Rails Engineer to design and implement features for our applications and also help maintain them by fixing bugs and suggesting/improving places where the code can be made better with refactoring. Engineers at Intellum take on ownership of major components of the system and drive the engineering team’s practices.

Responsibilities   

• Design, implement, and test new features for our LMS and suite of applications while considering the implications of security, scalability and reliability
• Write well-crafted, high-quality, self-documented, and easy to maintain code
• Fix defects and improve application performance
• Work collaboratively with teammates
• Perform code reviews for teammates
• Work closely with our designers to document requirements and iterate on feature development
• Work closely with our Customer Care team to help support our customers
• Periodically take on tier 2 on-call support duties to handle client support requests
• Engineers are additionally expected to:  1)  Drive the architectural direction of the software.  2)  Take on ownership of major components or engineering processes.  3)  Mentor less-experienced engineers and ensure code quality.

Required Skills & Experience   

• At least 3 to 5 years of experience developing software professionally.
• 2 - 4 years experience writing production Rails applications.
• Ruby  2.x.
• Rails  4.x.
• PostgreSQL or similar relational database.
• Background/async processing solutions (such as Sidekiq).
• Experience with Rails application server (such as Passenger).
• Experience with cloud computing platform (such as AWS, GCS).
• Solid experience working on production Rails applications and good all around back end and front end (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Good understanding of relational databases and SQL.
• Exposure to NoSQL technologies such as Redis and ElasticSearch.
• Experience with version control tools such as Git.

Education  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

 Physical Requirements/Work Environment:��

• Occasional irregular work hours.
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, etc.
• Extended time viewing a computer monitor.
• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time.

Requirements

  BENEFITS

• Medical - 100% of employee premiums for selected individual plans
• Dental - 100% of employee premiums covered
• Vision - 100% of employee premiums covered
• $3,500 annual educational funds (“Boost Budget”)
• LinkedIn Learning
• 401(k) plus matching (US Based Only)
• Unlimited PTO
• Calm subscription 
• Annual Company Retreat 

Intellum is an equal-opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that celebrates diversity in people, perspectives, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We encourage you to apply for an open position and if you have questions about whether or not your job experience and skill set meet the requirements for a specific role, reach out to us directly at careers@intellum.com.  

If you are an individual applying from CA, NY, CO, CT, MD, NV, or RI, please reach out to careers@intellum.com to inquire about specific pay ranges.