Senior Backend Engineer

Join our team, where you will be introduced to Toptal’s practices and processes. - Start participating in company-wide training sessions. - Set up your local environment and get familiar with our tech stack. - Create your first pull request. #### In the first month, expect to:

Familiarize yourself with the team’s business domain. - Contribute to our product development. - Develop a deeper understanding of our technologies, processes, and product pipeline. #### In the first three months, expect to:

Actively supply software planning, development, and maintenance. - Suggest and implement improvements to Toptal’s processes and codebase, while exercising discretion and independent judgment. #### In the first six months, expect to:

Lead technical initiatives in our team. - Drive improvements to the codebase and processes. #### In the first year, expect to:

Have a detailed understanding of Toptal’s technical stack, collaboration rituals, processes, and performance. - Mentor Toptal’s new team members. ### Qualifications and Job Requirements:

5+ years of web development experience with Ruby/Rails. - 5+ years of experience with SQL databases. - Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, automated software testing, development, and testing essential methodologies. - Knowledge of GraphQL and Kafka is preferred but not required. - Knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and React is a plus. - Ability to consider multiple quality dimensions like user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance. - Be genuinely interested in technology and love to try new things. - Tackle complex problems by considering multiple solutions, weighing them, and deciding on the best course of action. - Must have outstanding written and verbal communication skills. - Thrive on providing and receiving transparent but always constructive feedback. - Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts. - You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.