Senior Software Engineer (Backend -Ruby on Rails)

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Job Description Ruby on Rails - Senior Software Engineer Job Summary Our team is responsible for the core User model for Zendesk. The team’s mission is to optimize the in-product, customer and developer experience for representing our customers’ Users at Zendesk.This role will be joining our team based out of Melbourne Australia as our foundational engineers in Pune. If you are passionate about working on applications at scale, with immediate customer impact, our friendly and supportive team is for you. Our ideal candidate is someone who takes the lead on anything they work on and is a self-starter with projects that has the initiative to drive a project from start to finish. What you’ll get to do each day • Contribute to the code at the core of Zendesk’s support product - what you write will reach millions of people each day! • Take ownership of features and collaborate with the Tech Lead to design and implement complete solutions. • Contribute to technical discussions and decision-making with other teams and partners across the global engineering organisation. • Break complex features into granular pieces of work, to facilitate incremental feedback cycles. • Prioritise and estimate work balancing feature delivery with the management of tech debt. • Participate in and lead activities such as pairing sessions and code reviews to facilitate continuous self-improvement for the whole team. • Work closely with our designers and product managers to help define the future of the product. • Triage customer issues in partnership with Product Managers. • Provide operational support for our services in Production. • Actively look for ways to improve the observability, performance, reliability and security of our services. What you bring to the role • Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails. You’ll be working on one of the largest Ruby on Rails codebases in the world! • Solid experience with MySQL or similar. A knack for writing efficient queries and optimizing performance in high-traffic environments. • A track record of delivering large-scale, high quality, and resilient web systems. • Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills in English - you’ll collaborate with our other product teams around the globe. • The ability to understand and communicate sophisticated concepts in a relevant and considerate manner. Explain and reason your technical decisions clearly and effectively to engineers of different levels and non-technical partners. • Experience solving difficult problems across multiple systems. • Experience coaching engineers, leading brainstorming discussions, and facilitating engineers working together to make decisions in a collaborative environment. • Ability to influence without authority, inspire and mentor others. • A culture of learning, growth, and innovation. • You’re comfortable jumping into unfamiliar codebases and languages. Tech Stack • We primarily work in Ruby on Rails. • Most of the team’s data is stored in MySQL and Redis. • We occasionally work in our frontend in React, being migrated from Ember, preferring new components to be written in TypeScript. • We occasionally work in other adjacent services in Go and Java. • Our services connect with other services via a combination of gRPC, REST APIs, Kafka event streams, and GraphQL. • Our services are deployed to Kubernetes using Docker via Spinnaker, running on AWS. We don’t require previous experience with these specific technologies; we’re confident you can learn as we go. • We monitor and observe our production systems using Datadog. About Zendesk's Product Development Center of Excellence in Pune Zendesk is in the exciting early stages of establishing a Product Development Center of Excellence in Pune. This center is being developed through a BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) model, allowing us to gradually build and scale our operations with a current mix of BOT workers and full-time employees (FTEs). Our vision is to create a vibrant, innovative hub where all team members will eventually transition into FTE roles. As an early hire, you will have a unique opportunity to be a pivotal part of this journey. You'll play a key role in shaping the culture, processes, and success of our Pune site, contributing directly to the growth and maturity of our Product Development Center of Excellence. Your expertise and insights will help lay the foundation for a world-class development center, influencing the way we build and deliver products at Zendesk. Note: This is a hybrid role, combining remote and on-site work, requiring 3 days in the office, and relocation to Pune. EEO Statement Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, colour, religion, national ori