ViaEurope means: smart Web-Apps & APIs combined with real warehouses, taking care of customs clearance for thousands of parcels each day, bringing products from all over the world to Europe!

ViaEurope is an agile tech-driven e-logistics company enabling hundreds of clients from all over the world to ship their goods to Europe – in a simple, efficient and transparent way. Our software connects airports, harbors, warehouses, customs authorities and delivery services across Europe to turn the ultra-complex process of customs clearance into a matter of a few clicks. We’re excited about what we’ve achieved within a few years; we're not only proud that we can deliver a great product but also make a meaningful impact in our industry. Now we work towards our next level: new markets, new services, and huge opportunities. Let us build, scale, innovate together – and enjoy the journey.

About Our Stack - currently consists of a larger monolithic Ruby on Rails application (RoR, PostgreSQL, Redis, highly asynchronous workloads with Sidekiq), a NodeJS driven frontend application, a data warehouse on RDS PostgreSQL (with dbt as ETL pipeline and PowerBI as reporting tool) and a small number of additional PostgreSQL databases, tools and services in various other technologies.

The Role of the Senior Ruby Developer at ViaEurope:

We're looking for a Senior Ruby Developer to come and join our international IT team. Our engineers and product managers are always looking for ways to automate and optimize our parcel processing pipeline. Together with them, you will take responsibility for the complete delivery of a feature, from inception to deployment. We’re about delivering value to our users, not about closing tickets. Your insights and initiatives will be valued at every step.

About you

• You’re a software engineer with a deep understanding of software engineering practices;
• You’re proficient with the set of sharp knives provided by Ruby on Rails;
• You treat Git as a documentation tool, rather than a CMD+S with extra steps;
• You are self-motivated and able to manage yourself and your own queue;
• You are a problem solver with a passion for simple, clean and maintainable solutions;
• You agree that concise and effective written and verbal communication is a must for a successful team (our office language is English);
• You are able to maintain a minimum of 4 hours overlap with 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM Berlin time.

About the day-to-day work:

• Work with cross-functional teams to solve real-world problems;
• Improve and maintain existing features, and decide when it's time to rewrite them;
• Proactively improve the code quality to not let the codebase descend into legacy;
• Have an active involvement in the design, implementation and maintenance of new features;

About ViaEurope

We work hybrid and we are flexible about our location. We work in English and we believe that concise and effective written and verbal communication affects the quality of our work and defines a successful team. Also, one of ViaEurope's core values is to develop ourselves. Your education or background is less important to us than your ability to take on a task and get it from concept to production. ViaEurope boasts an education budget for conferences and online learning materials, so don't question yourself too much, we got your back!

About us

• We believe that technology drives our business.
• Our stack includes monolithic Ruby on Rails (split by business domains), JavaScript (Svelte), PostgreSQL, all currently hosted on Heroku;
• We practice Continuous Deployment and deploy ~15 ~ times per day.
• Our team includes a diverse cultural background, currently spread through 7 time zones.
• While we are passionate about our work, we won’t go insane over arbitrary deadlines. We all have time outside of work to enjoy life’s other pleasures.
  

• We practice Trunk-Based Development with lots of tests, supported by fully automated CI/CD.

Benefits & Perks

• Minimum vacation policy of at least 25 days of paid vacation plus national holidays
• Home office setup budget; but you’re also welcome to work from our office in Berlin
• Budget for learning materials, such as courses, books and conference

Interview process

1. Get-to-know call with our recruiting partner.

2. Expert interview with two of our senior engineers.
3. Technical challenge: you are free to choose any of the following options:

• We'd be happy to read your open-source Ruby code if there's a project that you've been maintaining and you are proud to share it;

• If you'd like to work on a home assignment on your own time, we'll send you an exercise;

• If you'd like to do a live coding session, we'll do a live pair programming session

4. Final interviews and also meeting our Head of Engineering and/or CTO.

We are very fast with our recruiting process!