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Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby)

  • Remote
    • Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • Barcelona, Catalunya [Cataluña], Spain
    +1 more
  • €75,000 - €85,000 per year
  • Tech

Job description

About Livestorm & The API Tribe

At Livestorm, we are building the future of online events and engagement. Our platform powers thousands of webinars, meetings, and virtual events worldwide, enabling companies to connect seamlessly with their audiences.

The API Tribe is at the heart of Livestorm’s backend architecture, handling everything from authentication and billing to real-time communication and data synchronization. We are a small but high-impact team working on modernizing our stack by transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a robust service-based ecosystem.

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Ruby Engineer who will play a key role in driving this transformation. If you love working on high-scale, high-performance applications, enjoy solving complex architectural challenges, and thrive in a collaborative environment, this role is for you!

Bonus: If you have experience with Golang, it’s a big plus! We are gradually introducing Go into our ecosystem, and having Ruby engineers who can contribute to both stacks would be a great asset.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Senior Ruby Engineer in the API Tribe, you will:

  • Architect, build, and optimize backend services using Ruby (Rails 7).

  • Lead the transition from monolith to service-oriented architecture, defining best practices and ensuring smooth integrations.

  • Work closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to design scalable and efficient APIs.

  • Ensure performance, security, and reliability of our backend systems handling millions of requests.

  • Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

  • Collaborate on architectural decisions, helping shape the evolution of our backend stack.

  • Big bonus: Go experience to contribute to Golang-based services and help bridge the transition between Ruby and Go where necessary. If you don’t have prior Go experience, a strong desire to learn and work with Go is essential.

Job requirements

What We’re Looking For

We’re searching for someone who is highly skilled, proactive, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Specifically, you should have:

Technical Skills

Strong expertise in Ruby & Rails – You’ve built and maintained complex applications at scale.

Experience with service-based architecture – You understand the challenges and best practices of distributed systems.

Database expertise – PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar, with experience optimizing queries.

Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs & WebSockets.

Testing mindset – You write tests (unit, integration, performance) to ensure stability.

Cloud & Infrastructure knowledge – Basic familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker is a plus.

Go experience is a STRONG plus – If you have worked with Go, you’ll have an opportunity to contribute to our Golang-based services right away. If you don’t have prior experience, a strong willingness and commitment to learning and working with Go is essential.

Soft Skills

Ownership & Proactivity – You don’t wait for problems to be assigned; you identify and solve them.

Great communication & collaboration – You enjoy working closely with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders.

Growth mindset – You love learning new technologies and improving processes.

Ability to navigate ambiguity – You’re comfortable in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.

Why Join Us?

🚀 Impact – Join a team where your work directly contributes to our product’s success.

🌍 Remote-First – Work from anywhere in Europe.

💡 Autonomy & Ownership – We trust our engineers to take initiative and make decisions.

💰 Competitive Salary & Benefits – We offer a great package.

🎯 Learning & Development – We support professional growth and encourage continuous learning.

Final Thoughts

We’re looking for a true team player who wants to build something great, not just another job seeker. If you enjoy solving tough problems, working with talented people, and making an impact, let’s talk! 🚀

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now and tell us about your experience working with Ruby (and Go, if applicable).

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Join the Future of Video Engagement

We are looking for great talents to join our fast growing team

About Livestorm

Founded in 2016, Livestorm allows companies to organize powerful online meetings, webinars and virtual events from end-to-end. Our web-browser platform provides teams with all the workflows around video engagement to promote, host and analyze online events.

Livestorm is built with ease of use in mind. We serve companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500s. Brand like Shopify, Honda, Spendesk, Front and Revolut trust Livestorm for premium video engagement during their online events.

Here are our core values:

  • Stay curious: Be interested in the world around you.

  • Remain humble: Keep learning and keep your ego in check.

  • Be resourceful: Go that extra mile in the most efficient way.

  • Own it: Take pride in what we do, own your wins, and fails.

  • Be transparent: Sharing knowledge, learnings, feedback, and mistakes.

About Livestorm

Sustainability:

Livestorm finally makes it possible to bring people together virtually worldwide as if they were in the same room. Every business trip that is no longer necessary thanks to Livestorm contributes to making the world a little more sustainable

Diversity and inclusion:

At Livestorm, we believe that diversity's got talent! We are committed to building an inclusive company culture in which a diverse mix of talented people will feel proud to join and engage.

Our goal is to ensure that every Stormie feels valued and has the opportunity to thrive.

All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

What it is like to join Livestorm and the Stormies

  • 100% remote with a work-from-anywhere policy

  • Offsite once a year

  • Teambuildings twice a year

  • Afterworks and online events once a month

  • Coworking space: The coworking space is covered up to €350 or $350 including VAT per month

  • Take care of yourself (with Moka.care)

  • Paid day off for your birthday

  • Days off donation policy to support each other in case of difficult times

  • Learning & Development program: You have access to learning classes on Udemy for Business. You have a budget of €750 or $750 per year for learning & development that can be used for training, conferences, books…

  • Additional equipment: After the validation of your first 6 months, you can benefit from €1,000 or $1,000 to equip yourself for remote work.

For French contracts

Health insurance with Alan (covered at 50%): - Fourmi formula, possibility of additional options. - Can cover your family (spouse, children) at 50% too. - Foresight is also with Alan.

Lunch vouchers with Swile (covered at 50%).

CSE with cultural & sports activities via Leeto.

Sustainable mobility package for daily trips to go to work: - You can benefit from €500 per year if you go to the office or a coworking space. - Please note that it’s for the use of a personal bicycle or shared mobility services.

For US contracts

Health Plan: - This depends on your State. You will have access to the Platinum plan of United Healthcare or Guardian. (This includes Medical, Dental & Vision insurance + Life insurance) - Livestorm covers 97% of employee fee and 67% for dependents.

Life insurance: $50K worth of life insurance.

401K: 5% employee + 2% company match after 6 months tenure.

Parental leave: 16 weeks for the first parent, and 5 weeks for the second parent.

PTO: 25 days of paid time-off per year.

Compensatory days off: 3 to 4 days depending on your State.

For the rest of the world

Having an EOR contract means you have a local employer and that you contribute to your local unemployment & retirement funds.

You benefit from all the legal and mandatory rules and benefits from your work contract country.

You benefit from at least 25 PTO a year.

You benefit from the bank holidays from your work contract country (depending on your region or even city).

You also benefit from 1 to 7 compensatory days off (depending on your country).

You will benefit from an exceptional incentive per month added on your salary proposition to align for benefits you don’t have (depending on your country).

Gilles Bertaux, CEO

Gilles is CEO and co-founder of Livestorm, where he shapes the future of end-to-end video engagement. As a first-time entrepreneur, Gilles co-founded Livestorm in 2016 along with Robin, Tom, and Vincent. The company quickly gained traction in Europe and North America and has nowadays over one million participants each month on its platform. In 2020, Gilles raised $30M in series B to accelerate Livestorm’s presence in Europe and the US, as well as to scale its go to market strategies towards mid-market and Enterprise.