At business-monitor.ch we are hiring a Ruby on Rails developer to integrate our fully remote team. We are looking for an experienced developer to work on business-monitor.ch and other Rails-based data-intensive products using technologies such as Elasticsearch, Sidekiq, and Ruby-driven web data extraction.

About us

Since 2012, business-monitor.ch has been collecting, cross-referencing and enriching data about nearly 1'000'000 Swiss businesses in order to help companies develop their business efficiently and securely. Every month, our platform is visited by more than 500'000 professionals looking for reliable and easy-to-find information.

With more than 25'000 registered users, and over 1'500 paying customers served, business-monitor.ch has become a reference for sales, marketing and risk management teams throughout Switzerland.

To build our products we use Ruby on Rails — obviously! — along with other tools like:

  • Elasticsearch, for our search engines;
  • Sidekiq for running lots of background jobs to collect and process data;
  • PostgreSQL, as our main data storage tech.

We collect data by connecting to various types of APIs and by extracting publicly available information from the Web. All of this using Ruby.

About the job

The main responsibilities of our engineering team are:

  • maintain our extensive codebase;
  • respond to bug reports;
  • develop new features and new products.

You'd take part of this effort while:

  • being encouraged to contribute towards making our code better, not just shipping out features as fast as you can;
  • closely discussing and implementing solutions with the rest of the team.

As a member of a small team, your work will be significant and important to better serve our clients.

About you

We are looking for someone who is a generalist Ruby on Rails developer with a knack for learning new tools and techniques to complement proven ones.

It's important that you:

  • are an experienced developer, with more than 2 years of professional work in the field;
  • are familiar with Rails, Ruby and all the bits and pieces that the web is all about;
  • like to write simple code;
  • are able to clearly communicate in English;
  • work with a 4 hour overlap with business hours in Western European Time.

How to apply

If you're interested reach out by sending us some paragraphs about you and your work experience — cover letter plus a CV is fine, but any written format will do —, and we'll go from there.

Job post date: 2023-05-31