USD per year
Senior Backend Engineer
Peoplebox.ai is a fast-growing, YC-backed start-up building an AI-powered Performance Management platform. We help modern companies drive real business outcomes by aligning people, goals, and feedback — all inside everyday tools like Slack, Teams, and email.
Responsibilities :
- Build and maintain MVC-based Ruby on Rails applications and RESTful APIs, ensuring code is clean, modular and well-documented.
- Implement and optimize asynchronous jobs using Sidekiq and/or Delayed Job to support long-running or high-volume tasks.
- Leverage Redis for caching, session storage and job management to deliver fast, responsive user experiences.
- Design efficient schemas, write optimized SQL (MySQL or PostgreSQL), and apply indexing and normalization best practices.
- Architect and iterate on scalable, decoupled systems 6whether monolith or microservices 6balancing performance, reliability and maintainability.
- Define, document and consume secure, versioned RESTful endpoints that serve both internal and external clients.
- Write and maintain unit/integration tests (RSpec or Minitest), and contribute to CI/CD pipelines for automated builds, tests and deployments.
- Partner with product managers, designers and front-end engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Provide clear, proactive updates on progress, challenges and trade-offs.
Requirements :
- Ruby on Rails, Python: 5+ years of production-grade experience, strong grasp of MVC conventions and Rails best practices.
- Background Jobs: Hands-on with Sidekiq and/or Delayed Job for asynchronous processing.
- Redis: Proven use for caching, session storage, pub/sub or job queues.
- Relational Databases: Expert in MySQL or PostgreSQL 6schema design, indexing, query optimization.
- API Development: Comfort designing, documenting and securing RESTful APIs.
- System Design: Ability to decompose complex problems, build modular services (microservices a plus) and make trade-off decisions.
- Version Control: Daily use of Git, collaborating via GitHub or GitLab.
- Containerization: Familiarity with Docker for development and production consistency.
- Cloud Services: Working knowledge of AWS (e.g., EC2, S3) or similar.
Nice-to-Have :
- Proven microservices or event-driven architecture experience.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Previous work in fast-paced, product-oriented start-ups.
Peoplebox.ai is an AI-powered talent management platform that helps manage candidate screening, performance, goals, employee engagement, and career development through a single intelligent platform. It offers configurable workflows, integration with HRIS, ATS, and talent systems, ease of use with no tech hassle, and dependable AI features. The platform supports ready-to-use integrations across databases, SaaS applications, HRIS, ATS, CRM, and more. Peoplebox.ai is fully GDPR-compliant and follows SOC-2 standards for data security.
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