On-demand logistic never caught up with the demand of the market.
Quiqup,
thanks to the use of technology available today, has found a way to
supply the market with faster, cheaper, more efficient, and more
reliable on-demand logistic solutions that can appeal to mass market and
reach economies of scale. Making it affordable to anyone to provide or
use on demand logistic services.
We are looking for
ambitious Back-end/Fullstack engineers. Quiqup people are people that
don't fit into one box and can adapt to solve problems in the same way
that we adapt to the market. You will be responsible for developing and
maintaining a cutting edge scalable logistics platform.
Your
primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition
and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance
and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be
responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by you and your
coworkers. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore
necessary as well.
We have many challenging problems to solve, your ability to be resourceful in finding solutions is paramount.
We
are open to the option of telecommuting, but we prefer on site.
Telecommuters must be able to work on British time and be no further
that 2 hours from London, as we will require some visits.
Responsibilities
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with our API
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimisation of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Design and implementation of data storage solutions
- Separation of centralised services into micro services
- Support of the infrastructure and services
Requirements
Requirements
- Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software.
- Professional experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails (2+ years)
- Experience with TDD environments (RSpec, Minitest, Capybara, Selenium)
- Experience with relational databases (PostGreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis)
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience with APIs at scale (20krpm and above).
- Experience with PostGIS, or any geography-heavy applications.
- Experience with "NoSQL" data backends (Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch).
- Experience with Node / Elixir (or any other languages).
- Experience with logistics.
Benefits
- Be part of something big! We’re here to change things.
- We're a social, energetic, driven, bunch of geeks with offices in a cool North-West London warehouse
- Work with people who love what they do everyday
- We’re international! We have people from all over the world.
- You'll get the opportunity to take on a lot of responsibility and have impact from day one
- Competitive compensation & possibility of stock options
- Oh, and have you heard about Kenny? He’s our office mascot dog
