At JobTeaser, we believe each and every student has the ability to achieve greatness. That’s why we have set ourselves the mission of preparing the new generation to reach their full potential, find their path, embrace the future with optimism and make their mark in the world.

We are the European leader in the recruitment and guidance of young talent. To this end, we offer an internship and job search platform, integrated directly into more than 750 schools and universities, which enables 5 million students and recent graduates to find their path, thanks to JobTeaser.

🚀 With €68 million series D raised, we are proud to announce that we just achieved a new key milestone in 2022: we have acquired our Nordic competitor Graduateland, read more here.

✨ We are a team of 400 talented and passionate people, across 7 countries in Europe. We are still growing and eager to welcome new talents!

🤔Now, a question for you: are you ready to have an impact on the next generation?

What about our Tech Department? 

Our stack

• Ruby on Rails monolith
• Migrating to  a micro services architecture in Go, Ruby or Elixir
• Postgres, MySQL and Redis
• ElasticSearch and Algolia
• gRPC
• Kafka
• React, React testing library, TypeScript, Next.js and Storybook
• iOS and Android mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin
• AWS hosting,Kubernetes, monitored with Grafana/Loki
• Continuous deployment with Github & CircleCI 

Our organization (the famous “Spotify model” adapted so differently by each company)

• 120 people (engineers, product people and data teams)
• 2 product tribes with 5 impact teams in each
• 1 platform tribe including QA team, 1 developer experience team, 1 devops & SRE team
• Each team with a hands-on Engineering Manager
• Staff Engineers report directly to Head of Engineering
• Software craftsmanship: clean code, testing, peer programming, code review, etc.

What will be your mission in a few words? 

• Scope: As a Staff Engineer, your playground is all the tech platform, with strong expertise on our stack back-end side. 

• Impact: We expect you to have an impact at the whole Tech department level, and to shine inside and outside the company, as one of our tech ambassadors.

• Mindset: You are a Tech leader who is recognized as a clear expert that sets architectural direction in one or multiple domains. You leverage their skills to lead multi-person projects, grow other engineers, promote best practices and influence strategic initiatives.

And in details?

• Architecture
  • You anticipate technical issues at the product level and make architectural and design decisions to avoid them
  • You are the expert on large sections of our codebase. 
  • You have a record of creating substantial improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across major business-critical systems
  • You shape broad architecture, ship multiple large services, complex libraries or major pieces of infrastructure

• Technical Leadership and Expertise
  • You are recognized as a prolific contributor to core and side projects
  • You are sought out for technical guidance
  • You are consistently able to reduce the complexity of projects, services, and processes in order to get more done with less work

• Solver Mindset
  • You have made a positive impact on the entire company's technical trajectory
  • You multiply the effectiveness of others by facilitating cross-team work
  • You can, when needed, help a team in difficulty on a specific project

• Engineering Leader’s Right Hand
  • You listen and guide debates to help reach a consensus and once a decision is made, you clearly communicate and back that decision
  • You set short to medium-term strategic technical direction, you are able to look ahead 6-12 months and identify the areas of greatest need and create plans to improve them

What will be your next challenges? 

• Consolidate our tech stack, practices and tooling across our microservice architecture into a cohesive technical vision
• Lead explorations and architectural design of complex new features and integrations with new tools
• Supervise the proper documentation of our architectural decisions and practices
• Participate in the animation of the community of backend developers 
• Guide improvements to our platform’s monitoring, alerting and reliability
• Mentor and assist other backend developers and teams on complex problems, notably the continuation of our migration to a distributed microservice architecture

Who are you? 🎯

Exemple: Jane Doe, Staff Engineer Backend

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent years’ experience
• Minimum of 6 years’ professional experience with Ruby development
• Experience working in, AWS, Microservices, PgSQL, Kafka,  ElasticSearch,  GIT, Ruby and/or Go
• Experience working in Agile and in a DevOps environment
• Understanding of various design patterns and OOP paradigm

@JobTeaser, get ready to…

• 💚 Join a mission-driven company with a concrete impact on the new generation.

• 🌏 Learn with our 400 people all over Europe driven by our three core virtues: #Committed, #OneTeam, #DrivEn.

• 🚀 Participate to our dynamic internal life, where all our employees can contribute (all-hands, seminars, meetups, parties, game nights, team-drinks, etc).

• 🏢 Grow and develop your career with JobTeaser thanks to our strong training policy (more than 90% of our employees have been trained last year!).

• 💚Be part to an inclusive environment with almost a perfect gender parity: 49% of women and 51% of men

• 🏡 Enjoy our super flexible remote environment with 1 month per year wherever you want in Europe, with a home office financial support for equipment. For some positions, it is possible to be fully remote.

• 👩‍💻 Work with a top Apple equipment.

• 💸 Enjoy the basics: RTT, health insurance, lunch voucher card, public transportation reimbursed (50%) and BSPCE.

• 🤩Be proud: 93% of our employees are proud to work at JobTeaser (source: Internal Take Care Survey March 2022, sent each quarter to all our employees).

Your hiring process and the next steps

In order to identify the perfect fit for us (and also for you!), we offer a comprehensive hiring process with the possibility to get to know all your future key team members, and between each step of your process, you will receive constructive feedback from our Talent team.

1. A 30-min screening call to get to know you better with one of our Talent Acquisition Rockstars
2. An interview with your future manager to discuss about your experiences and motivations
3. Two  focus interview that can include business cases to test your hard skills
4. A final round with the CTO to confirm the mutual match and answer all your last questions (for example: onboarding, organization, career path, etc.)
5. Welcome at JobTeaser 💚

We are committed to creating a working environment where everyone feels comfortable. We promote diversity within our teams and every application we receive is screened through a unique, pre-established, competency-based process.

The perfect candidate in 5 sentences 

We are looking for someone who:

• is one of the architects of the platform, has a depth knowledge of it and maintains quality and reliability
• acts as a Tech Leader among his peers, is their referent
• has a Solver mindset and is able to dig deep into complex problems
• can be (Engineering) Managers Right Hand and helps them to structure technical work