Responsibilities:

As a Senior Backend Developer, you will:

• Analyse requirements provided by the team’s Product Manager and implement them;
• Implement APIs, using Ruby on Rails framework;
• Write unit tests;
• Create and maintain technical documentation;
• Work on automated tools to improve the development process;
• Look for problems and inefficiencies in code and find elegant solutions to them before they become major blockers.

Requirements:

To be considered for this role, here are the skills we’re looking for:

• Experience with Ruby On Rails;
• Experience with PostgreSQL, or other Database Systems;
• Ability to build production-ready REST API’s;
• Experience with RSpec (MiniTest would also be considered);
• Experience working with backend teams;
• Fluency in English, spoken and written;
• Great team working skills, with the ability to share constant knowledge.
• Ability to analyse the big picture and detect how it will affect other aspects of the product and how it will evolve in the future;
• Good communication skills to interact with different stakeholders among internal teams.

Extra credit if you have:

• Experience integrating with external systems;
• Experience with Grape library;
• Redis and Sidekiq Experience;
• You maintain or contribute to an open-source library;
• Experience working with microservices;
• Experience with Sinatra;
• DevOps knowledge;
• Knowledge of possible performance improvements both on the application and database sides.

About the company:

Knok is the answer for a world where everyone has timely access to quality care. Through a Digital Front Door strategy, we connect patients, providers and healthcare professionals in one place.

ISO 27001 certified Recognised as #3 in Deloitte’s Technology. Fast 50 2023 Portugal list Proud supplier of the G-cloud 13 Framework. Top 10 Telemedicine Solution Providers in 2021 by Healthcare Tech Outlook.

At Knok, we dare to lead and humanize the digital transformation of healthcare. We envision a world where everyone has timely access to quality healthcare through digital technology, creating a more equal society. We genuinely believe in it and you can recognize it in every person who embraces this mission. We are rapidly growing, delivering augmented telemedicine on 4 continents, and we have barely begun!