Senior Backend Developer - Hiring Now

We are looking to hire a creative Senior Backend Developer to join our awesome team at Velory in Stockholm.
Growing your career as a Full Time Senior Backend Developer is an amazing opportunity to develop relevant skills.
If you are strong in cooperation, people management and have the right mindset for the job, then apply for the position of Senior Backend Developer at Velory today!

Velory is hiring a senior backend developer with ambitions to lead teams. Do you love building well tested and stable Ruby on Rails applications? Do you believe in that by working together we will achieve greater things than by working alone? Then we will probably get along great!

Come join our product team at Universal Avenue as a backend developer and help us build out our API:s and services to ship an outstanding product.

What you will do

As a Backend Developer at Velory you will be working tightly with both frontend and backend developers on the API and core functionality of our platform.

Work with a team of engineers to build out the backbone of our platform, written in Ruby on Rails. Conceive of and deploy improvements to the architecture of the platform and overall processes and systems and coach the development team on best practices and help them grow along with the company. Our goal at Velory is to have a well tested and well architected platform to build upon for years to come and this role will have a large impact on how we best accomplish this.

Who you are
We look for people who are passionate about what they do best, people with a can-do attitude, lots of energy and a strong entrepreneurial drive. Together we can build a team that is motivated and happy.

High pace is something you are used to working in, sometimes with tasks way beyond your job description that require getting into the details to ensure success.

In addition to our ambitious vision and mission, the people and culture here are what most of our team members see as our biggest strengths. To really thrive here you should align well with our core values:

Show ownership by looking at the big picture, and taking initiative to dig in where needed to help us succeed.

⚡️ Manage speed by getting rid of obstacles to keep a high, sustainable pace.

Represent quality by aiming high, sweating the details, and iterating.

Earn trust by being communicative and transparent, and by following through on your commitments.

✨ Deliver wow by going beyond expectations, and doing so in a creative, unexpected way.

Required Skills

• 7 years of Ruby on Rails experience

• Experience maintaining and improving upon large code bases

• Experience working with / writing test suites that perform well and have avoided a flake or 2

• Experience with Postgres and how to optimize it

Nice to have skills

• React experience

• GraphQL experience

• Heroku experience

What we offer

• A fast-growing startup on an ambitious mission to digitalize businesses world-wide

• A diverse team of talented and supportive colleagues

• Freedom and flexibility in how and where you work

• Centrally located office in Stockholm

• Six weeks of paid vacation

• Pension at ITP1 levels

• Generous wellness grant and weekly training sessions with personal trainer

• Private healthcare insurance

• Use our own Velory Portal to select the hardware you want

This is Velory

Velory is an Employee Experience Platform that provides companies and their employees with Productivity-as-a-Service (PaaS), and offers a cushy process when purchasing hardware, software and services. Velory also supports companies in becoming more sustainable in their operations.

Employers get a unique overview of all the company’s licenses and units, and employees are given greater freedom to optimize their work environment.

Velory is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden

Benefits of working as a Senior Backend Developer in Stockholm:

● Company offers great benefits
● Company offers career progression opportunities
● Attractive package