QuickNode is a cloud-based infrastructure company that powers the blockchain ecosystem.
Our mission is to be the indispensable utility that empowers companies and innovators globally to build next-generation, Web3 enabled businesses & applications using blockchain technology. QuickNode is backed by some of the world's best investors including Tiger Global, Y Combinator, SoftBank, and the Seven Seven Six Fund. The QuickNode team has over 120 people maintaining high performance global data infrastructure for amazing customers serving billions of requests daily. We are a global remote company with an HQ in Miami, Florida.
The Role
As a Ruby Engineer on the QuickNode Marketplace team, you will be working with the team behind one of the fastest-growing QuickNode products. Our Marketplace allows our partners to offer their APIs to our customers via add-ons that are deeply integrated with our unparalleled, globally-balanced blockchain infrastructure.We’re looking for a self-motivated and intellectually curious developer with good communication skills who has demonstrated that they can collaborate well in a high-performance team.
You should share our love for Ruby while being open to working with other programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, and/or Go.
What You’ll Do:
- Help scale our QuickNode Marketplace to hundreds of partners
- Help us build and maintain internal add-ons for our Marketplace
- Write effective and scalable back-end and front-end code in Ruby on Rails
- Test applications for performance, responsiveness, and security
- Coordinate with team members who work on different layers of infrastructure
- Review new feature impact on an application, recognizing potential risks
- Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to after-hours system incidents
- Document your processes and share knowledge with the team
What You’ll Bring
- Hands-on experience with Ruby and Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq
- In-depth understanding of object-oriented programming
- Experience working with a wide variety of systems and integrating APIs from third parties
- A strong ability to debug complex issues and identify and fix root causes
Bonus
- Familiarity with Web3 and surrounding ecosystem
- Hands-on experience with Stripe integrations using Ruby
- Experience deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and GraphQL
- Experience with the Go programming language
The QuickNode compensation philosophy includes pillars to ensure fair and unbiased compensation for all employees. To design and deliver total reward offerings that are employee-centric. To offer a competitive benefit package in all locations where we operate. To prioritize attracting and retaining the best talent globally. To maintain a high-performing and flexible way of working. During the hiring process, we are committed to discussing compensation openly and honestly. We encourage candidates to share their salary expectations and requirements early, allowing for an individualized discussion.
We know that our total rewards practices impact the lives and wellbeing of our employees. Therefore, we will never stop learning about the market, our business, your needs, and how best to achieve our goals through thoughtful and data-driven practices. If you have any questions or require further information about the compensation for this position, please don't hesitate to reach out to your Recruiter. We at Quicknode are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
