Hack the back

Web backend engineer (Ruby, JS) – 100% (f/m)

We’re creating the first backend platform to enable battery sharing in Europe, all powered by clean energy. We’ve successfully deployed a first (git) branch of this platform in Switzerland. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to bring this platform to the next level.

At Chimpy, we want everything on this planet to be powered by green energy. So far, we’re successfully running a service to enable green mobile battery sharing all over Switzerland.

Over the next years, we want to expand our service to several other countries and explore new ways of sharing clean energy. We are therefore looking for a chimera to join our hacker team, to make the system run better, faster and in some new challenging ways.

The mission we offer you:

• Think, design and develop backend changes to support new business needs. This includes working on existing backend services & data stores but also building new ones from scratch


• Actively participate in scaling our backend system. This involves a planned transition to micro-services & event sourcing


• Work closely with our CTO (Sag) on architectural decisions. This includes challenging existing architecture and design, taking time to learn new paradigms and implement these ideas in a real-world system
  

That’s the core of the mission. Now, depending on the taste and appetite of the chimera hacker, it can be adapted. Have a side crush for beautiful interfaces? Like to play with data? Already had a dream about serverless computing or functional programming?

The chimera hacker we’re looking for:

Here’s our current technological stack:

• Backend services: Ruby / Rails and JS / Node


• Frontend services: JS / React, JS / React Native (iOS / Android)


• DevOps: GitHub, circleCI, Heroku, AWS


• Main third party services: Auth0, Stripe, Mandrill

Thus, naturally, you should have a bit of the following:

• Acceptable experience in building web backend services. Preferably but not necessarily in Ruby / Rails or JS / Node


• Experience or interest in one or many of the following backend challenges: distributed architecture, cloud computing, micro-services, data streams, event sourcing


• A pro-active and can-do attitude, even if some of the challenges to face are completely new

Send us your application

Does it sound like a mission you’d like to spend your time on?

If yes, send us your application, with:

• some paper telling us about your studies and work experience (CV, LinkedIn)


• anything that would show off your previous work (github, project, blog, talk,…)


• a few words to tell us why you choose to accept the mission we’re offering and why you’re the chimera hacker we need.

We speak English, German, French, Italian (and also a bit of Romansh, Romanian, Ukrainian, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, …). Go ahead and shoot us a small message.

The position is open for immediate start.

✉ jobs@heychimpy.com