Senior Backend Engineer - Core team (Europe)

Booqable prides itself on being a global company with team members working together from across the world. We are remote-first, so you can join us as an experienced Backend Engineer on our product team from wherever you are.

This is Booqable

Booqable was founded in 2014 as a rental software designed to help small to medium-sized rental businesses to succeed. From humble beginnings, we have grown to become one of the industry’s leading software providers and have won many awards from software review sites like Capterra.

We are a quickly growing company that is always looking for new people to join our team to help us achieve our goals. We aim to create innovative solutions to the unique challenges that face rental companies as more and more transition to online bookings and management.

There are three products that make up Booqable: A backend where users can manage everything from products to payments, an online store builder that allows users to build a complete rental website with everything they need, and a mobile app that acts as a companion from managing and processing orders for iOS and Android.

Our culture

• Collaborative and supportive team
• No excessive management structures
• Efficient and purposeful meetings only when necessary
• Empowerment to take ownership of your projects
• Commitment to delivering high-quality work with a focus on results

Backend Engineer

As a Backend Engineer in our product team, you will work closely with others to build new features for the Booqable web app and online store builder as we continue our rapid growth. The product team is up of mid-level and senior-level developers who work in smaller groups of 2-3 people to build new functionality from start to finish.

Above all, we value code quality and finding the best and most practical solutions to challenges our users and others like them face. We also like to keep on the cutting edge of development and work with the latest versions of Ruby on Rails, React, and more.

Our stack in a nutshell

• Ruby on Rails
• React
• Redux
• BEM + styled-components

What you’ll do

• Working together with the product team to build awesome new features
• Advise on and solve technical issues
• Contribute to our roadmap
• Be up-to-date on the latest technologies and developments

Skills and nice to haves

• You are flexible, a team player, and someone with an eye for detail
• Able to take ownership and write scalable, maintainable code
• Familiar with MVC, OOP
• Understanding of relational databases
• Experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Awareness of Git and code reviewing
• You have full proficiency (written and verbal) in English
• TDD or BDD knowledge would also be nice to have
• Strong programming foundations
• Ability to solve complex challenges

This is a full-time role for 32-40 hours/week. You have the opportunity to work remotely from anywhere in the world.