Back-End Engineer

We have a simple yet ambitious goal; to sell train tickets in the easiest way possible for all European destinations. Booking a train should be just as simple as hopping on a train.

Capitaine Train was founded by 3 engineers obsessed with simplicity. Our organisational structure is very simple and linear: those who make product decisions are the same ones who build them. We are a young and small start-up (40 people) and we are growing very quickly. Your work will have a direct and visible impact on the growth of our company.

Our beautiful office is located in the heart of Paris. We’re surrounded by bars, restaurants, theatres, startups and are near the four main Parisian train stations. We offer a great package including fixed and variable salaries, an awesome health coverage plan plus stock options.

You

Hipster-organic-pixel-UI crafting is not really your thing. What you like to do is handle big data issues and to get your hands dirty. You are production-oriented. You are extremely reliable and your tests will prove it every time. You won’t even raise an eyebrow when refactoring legacy code or mocking dusty SOAP services. Last week hacker-news-yd-cool-kid-technology makes you smile, because you don’t buy their marketing. You want the source code, you want sustainability and you want facts.

If this sounds like you, we have a job for you.

Role

We need you to help us build Capitaine Train’s European Search & Book engine. Most of it is built in Ruby (and some C++).

You will handle technical relationships with the different train carriers and make their engineers happy to be working with you. You will face a lot of challenges: exhaustiveness and quality of results, optimising fares, particularities of each career, speed, scalability; whilst always keeping simplicity in mind.

Everyone has their own personal experiences with trains and our customers love to share them with us; you’ll receive a lot of feedback and you’ll help real people to solve their real problems.

Requirements

• Perfect spelling and grammar (in your mother tongue),
• Decent written and spoken English,
• Self-organized and ability to prioritize tasks effectively,
• Experience with software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, continuous integration, design documentation…),
• Background in HTTP, distributed systems, and service-oriented architectures,
• Integration experience with third party suppliers and systems,
• Innovative and pragmatic, strong problem solving skills; ability to find solutions to problems and to quickly assess the state-of-the-art,
• Love shipping software fast and frequently.

Pluses

• Experience with Ruby, RabbitMQ,
• Understanding of SLA’s, policies, procedures,
• Experience with API’s design,
• Knowledge of SQL/DB usage and performance.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.