**Senior Ruby Engineer**\nReady to shape tomorrow?\nThis is somewhere where innovative thinking and the power of technology know no limits. We know that the success of the business depends on the people who keep it moving, which is why we are looking for exceptional talent to join our international payments revolution.\nWe’re bringing simplicity, transparency & scale to cross-border payments - a $120 trillion market.\n**About the role.**\nOur software engineers are responsible for implementing an industry-leading API that has already processed over $50 billion of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end users, and is available to our clients 24/7. But we’re not stopping there, and our engineers are at the forefront of taking us forward to meet the demands of even greater scale.\nFrom our monolithic datacenter beginnings we’ve moved wholesale to AWS where our system runs as a set of distributed applications. We’re currently in the process of migrating those applications over to Kubernetes and Jenkins-X as we further embrace a microservices architecture.\nAs a software engineer you’ll play a key role within your team; delivering new functionalities to the services your team provides, and taking responsibility for your services and the technology within them. Teams are aligned to services and you’ll have:\n* clear ownership of your domain\n* a clean modern codebase\n* an independent path to production\n* strong platform and product support\n* the ability to make real changes with real business value.\nOur microservices architecture enables us to explore new languages and technologies in parallel with our existing system.\nThe core of our system has been built using Ruby, leveraging backing services like RabbitMQ, Redis, and MySQL/Aurora, but we are keen to bring in engineers with more diverse backgrounds, and help us take Currencycloud to the next level of scale.\nWe are interested in Ruby developers, or people from any modern object oriented programming language that are willing to learn and code in Ruby.\nAs part of our TRUST team you will be building state of the art compliance systems that make our clients safe and ensure adherence to FCA standards across our business.\n**The Details**\nDay-to-day you’ll work with a variety of tools, technologies, capabilities and processes. * Highly-scalable, highly-available, cloud-native applications are key to our next phase of growth, are written to 12-factor principles and fit into our microservices architecture. * Cloud-related tools and services support these applications, such as Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, log management systems, and Datadog APM, to name but a few. * API specifications, conforming to the OpenAPI (Swagger) standard, provide a clean boundary both externally between our customers and our product, and internally between our microservices. * Object-oriented programming forms the bulk of our codebase, currently in Ruby and more recently in Java. We also have specialist applications written in a functional style using Scala and Elixir.\n* TRUST team’s tech stack includes RoR applications with RabbitMQ as a queue service, MySQL as an underlying database engine, and Elasticsearch as a search engine and aggregation tool. Our frontends are written in Vue.JS. All of that running on Kubernetes clusters. SQL, and large SQL databases, provide the persistence layer for our applications. You’ll be working with (and know the limitations of using) such large datastores. * Infrastructure automation is primarily owned by the infrastructure team, but you will be a consumer of their work, familiarity with AWS, Terraform and Docker is beneficial. * Testing approaches, including TDD, BDD and Contract Testing, all form an important part of our approach to quality assurance; ensuring that the code that we write forms products that are fit for use. We currently use RSpec and Cucumber. * Agile development, with teams broadly aligned with the Spotify - Squads & Tribes - model, helps us deliver incremental improvements to our products in an iterative manner. Advocating this model, and joining us on a journey of continuous improvement, is a key attribute of senior members of our teams.\n* Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines allow us to “automate all the things”, providing repeatable builds and consistent deployments.\n* GitHub, and the GitHub PR review process, forms a core part of our developer workflow, and peer reviews help share knowledge and improve quality. Teamwork, and cross-team collaboration, is fundamental to the delivery of our applications. Whilst each application has an independent path to production, there will always be some activities and initiatives that span multiple teams and require cross-team collaboration. Within your team you’ll need to collaborate with a number of stakeholders, including Product Owners and QA, as part of your product development.\nNone of these on their own are a must-have to apply for the role, but it would be useful to share with us any knowledge or experience that you have in these areas.\n**Anything extra to add?**\nAlong with a no dress code policy & flexible working arrangements we also provide all of our employees with a prepaid debit card each month to spend on Wellness, or a contribution to a gym membership.\nWe offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits which include 25 days paid leave, 5% pension, BUPA health insurance, life insurance, long term sickness protection, a day off for your birthday and socials every Friday.\nWe are a Remote First Company, post-pandemic we plan on still using our offices but are totally flexible on how often.\n**About Currencycloud**\nCurrencycloud is a global payments platform built on smart technology that takes the complexity out of moving money. Developers use our API building blocks to build customised payment solutions. Whether you want to embed our payments infrastructure into your products or services, or build on top of it, we’ll fit into your business in a way that works for you.\nWe take care of all the intricacies and regulatory hurdles involved with cross-border payments, giving you the tools to globalise your business.\nOur cloud-based platform removes that complexity from international transactions, giving you clarity and control over your business so you can focus on the things that matter: your customers. With enterprise-class solutions for clients and partners such as Visa and Starling Bank, Currencycloud understands your needs and can help with market-leading products. \n\nPlease mention the words **CHECK CABLE SOUND** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xNDQuMTA0LjIxMA==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. 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**Company Overview:**\nCurrencycloud is a FinTech startup bringing transparency, simplicity and scale to cross-border payments - a $120 trillion market. \n\nOur industry-leading payments API has processed over 50 billion dollars worth of transactions for hundreds of clients and over five million end-users.\n\nWe have offices in London, NYC, Cardiff, and Amsterdam and to date have raised over $80 million from prominent investors, including GV (Google Ventures).\n\nLocation: US, remote\n\n**About the role:**\nWe are currently experiencing breakout growth and need your help to scale our platform to support increased demand. To meet this demand we are creating the first fully remote scrum team based in the US. \n\nYou’ll be joining our FX Trading and Treasury team, and will play a key role in ensuring delivery of well-tested, scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. \n\nAs part of the team, this person will work closely with Product, Infrastructure and the Client Support teams to maintain and develop our FX and Treasury APIs. We are an agile team always looking for ways to improve and your experience and curiosity will help us do that. \n\n\n# Responsibilities\n **Key Responsibilities:**\n* Collaborate with other team members.\n* Use best practices and deliver well factored, well-tested code.\n* Ensure simplicity in implementation.\n* Keep current with relevant technologies.\n* Make informed recommendations on new implementations.\n* Ability to work in a fast-paced agile development workflow.\n* Reduce the need for maintenance and daily chores.\n* Be an enabler, not a blocker.\n* Work within the team development process.\n* Deliver within expected time frames.\n* Ask for help when required. \n\n# Requirements\n**Experience Critical to Success:**\n* Ruby development experience (>4 years) using Rails/Sinatra\n* Experience building both full Rails apps and API\n* MySQL backed applications\n* TDD, BDD - RSpec, Cucumber\n* CI/CD Pipelines\n* Gem development, gem ecosystem\n* Git/GitHub\n* Agile/SCRUM development\n\n**Experience on the following is highly preferable:**\n* Experience in API-led platforms\n* Elasticsearch\n* Docker \n* Kubernetes\n* Experience with log management systems \n* Experience with exception management systems \n* Experience with APM systems like New Relic / Datadog\n* 12 Factor Apps\n* Experience with AWS SDK\n* Previously worked with large SQL databases.\n* An interest in infrastructure/DevOps with experience using provisioning tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes).\n\n**Exposure to any of the following is a plus:**\n* Experience building business tools.\n* Experience building and running microservices architecture.\n* Languages besides Ruby.\n* Software Engineering background.\n* Ability to lead projects/epics as required.\n\n**Key skills:**\n* Ability to understand the big picture of systems working together.\n* Great attention to detail.\n* Comfortable communicating with different teams and people with varied knowledge levels.\n* Strong communicator, able to simply articulate complex technical concepts.\n* Comfortable working in a fast-paced start-up environment.\n* Passionate for new web technologies.\n* Solid grasp of the web technology stack and its internals.\n* Apply best practices and good standards to the code.\n* Ability to communicate with all levels of the business and product team members in order to extract requirements.\n* Comfortable delivering applications in an agile, multi-team, fast paced, release-often environment.\n* Ability to review peer work and provide feedback in a positive way. \n* Ability to share knowledge and train people up.\n* Ability to think in an abstract way knowing only part of the problem.\n* Pair together with other team members to unblock tasks and share knowledge.\n\n**Benefits and Perks:**\n* Periodic visits to our NYC headquarters and off-site team events.\n* Workspace budget for latest Mac Laptop with touchID and touch bar and other accessories.\n* 20 days PTO plus a day for your birthday.\n* Healthcare cover, covered by the company.\n* Dental coverage.\n* 401k plan plus matching up to 4%.\n* Options package available after 1 year of service.\n\n**Application Instructions:**\n\nPlease provide a resume and cover letter, including salary requirements, and tell us a bit about yourself! \n\nPlease mention the words **KIND ALL VAN** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xNDQuMTA0LjIxMA==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Finance, Ruby, API, Docker, Developer and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $130,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States