Backend Engineer, API Platform

MEET ASCENDA

Ascenda solutions make loyalty simple for financial institutions globally. Previously, these companies had to endure complex patchworks of third-party systems, complicated data experiences, and 18-month implementation projects to deploy a competitive rewards program. We turn things upside down with loyalty solutions rooted in beautiful design, exceptional customer value, and rapid implementation.

Our API Platform sits at the heart of a distributed system, and plays a role in most of the interactions in our loyalty product. We serve both full-serviced loyalty platforms and clients that integrate our content in a modular manner. The multi-tenant and flexible nature of our system leads to an interesting and unique set of technical challenges which to date have only been partially solved.

This includes challenges of scale, flexibility and self-service solutioning and this is where you come in.

Join us as a Backend Engineer, API Platform.

As a member on the API Platform team, you will:

• Carry the team by personally solving some of the hardest technical problems.
• Play a key role in day-to-day work such as sprint planning, pair programming, and code reviews.
• Map complex business requirements onto existing systems, and evolve them to support new functionality.
• Maintain high standards of code quality
• Work closely with your team lead to define and execute on the technical roadmap.
• Handle production incidents and improve operational processes, monitoring, and tooling to minimize their impact.
• Have the opportunity to solve problems across multiple areas, such as performance, internationalization, multi-tenancy & scalability

You’re a good fit if:

• You have experience with Ruby and Rails, at least 2 years.

• You have at least 1 year experience with Ruby / Rails.

• You have a strong technical exposure, especially in working around multi-tenant applications with a large number of interconnected features.

• You have a thorough understanding of API development and concepts such as REST and standards like JSON:API.

• You have had some exposure to distributed systems and understand some of the challenges they present.

• You are self-motivated and function well in situations with high levels of ambiguity.

• You enjoy working in a dynamic and cross-functional environment.