About Reflektive

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help scale Reflektive from a startup to being the market leader for employee performance management. The main question to be answered: Can you help a company scale? Reflektive has major initiatives to tackle in the next year, along with scaling our team from fifteen to forty Engineers. Initiatives range from internal scaling, security, engagement, newverticals, pervasive technologies, research and development, data and analytics, and customer tools. Reflektive’s Senior Software Engineer will contribute in their area ofspecialisation. S/he will be a trusted leader that will drive initiatives over the finish line. S/hewill help us solve complex design challenges and mature our platform to handle increasing traffic and scale.You'll join a lean, prolific team where everyone, including you, is active in the productdefining and development process (where deploying new features every 2 weeks is common). You'll know the customers we're talking to, and the needs of each one. As a result, you know where your initiative and drive can best make a difference (and be recognized!)

Our engineering team consists of developers from a wide array of backgrounds. Following Scrum practices, we work closely with the Product Management team to develop features that focus on empowering and developing employees. Our team is a tight knit, friendly group of engineers that are dedicated to learning from and teaching to each other. Team members regularly contribute to and optimize our engineering practices and processes. Our team wants to make software engineering fun, easy, and fulfilling, so we've come up with a set of values that we apply to our software every day: Simple, Flexible, Consistent, Predictable, Efficient, and Pragmatic.

Responsibilities

● Break-down complex problems into solvable pieces of work for other Engineers.

● Depending on your specialization, projects/initiatives may include: Security, scaling distributed systems, working on our core services related to user management, building out new verticals, guiding new engagement features, scaling traffic/imports/exports, managing APIs.

● Help scale the company in both headcount/workforce, as well as our technology. Scale our platform to handle an increasing number of enterprise customers: +50,000 employees

● Work extremely cross-functionally across Engineering and Product Management.

● Train and mentor junior engineers.

● Deliverables: (30 days) Own a feature; possibly being paired with another engineer.

(60 days) Own and drive a new initiative. (90 days) Bring that initiative to production.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Software development experience of 1+ years
  • Expert proficiency in Ruby (Mandatory).
  • SaaS /Internet company background: web-based, hosted on Heroku or AWS.
  • Proficiency in integrating multiple apps and services using APIs. Experience in working with different API authentication mechanisms will be an added bonus.
  • Knack on reviewing vendor API documentation and develop integration plans adhering to the requirements.
  • Experience in an Agile and Scrum environment.
  • Experience with one or more technologies desired, NOT required: Redis,Memcache, Redshift, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Hadoop, Microservices, Aws lambda and kinesys.
  • Played a pivotal role in scaling a company. Startup experience strongly desired.
  • You learn quickly, you’re adaptable and versatile.
  • Experienced as a mentor.
  • Track-record of achievements impacting team(s) and company(ies) versus solely building features.