Senior Back-End Engineer - Ruby and Ruby on Rails (RoR)

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Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people. 

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. 

About this team and role:

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 senior-level engineer to join the Fakespot team within Mozilla. 

What you’ll do: 

• Creating robust, scalable, highly loaded applications
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing applications
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs
• Maintaining and expanding APIs

What you’ll bring: 

• Minimum 3 years of professional work experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Excellent learning ability
• Ability to write efficient algorithms, and clean code
• Good knowledge of relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Experience working with Sidekiq, RSpec and other common RoR libraries
• Working knowledge of Git, Docker
• Good knowledge of full stack web development
• Commitment to our values:
• Welcoming differences
• Being relationship-minded
• Practicing responsible participation
• Having grit

Bonus Points for…

• Golang, Python, Kubernetes deployments
• Working with high traffic systems
• Background processing experience

What you’ll get:

• Generous performance-based bonus plans …