Senior Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails)
Meet a challenge: we have 160K requests per minute, half are writing, our database is growing by 1% per day, 5 million users a day send 15 million records, about 50 million requests to the database!
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Sweatcoin is a London-based and well-funded scale-up with a team of 100 and the mission to make the world more physically active. Our iOS and Android apps have more than 100MM installs, 15M+ active users, more than 300 commercial partners and confirmed by the independent academic research ability to make our users up to 20% more active.
If you are interested in solving complex problems, then we are looking forward to seeing you be a part of our team! Now we have 160K requests per minute, half are writing, our database is growing by 1% per day, 5 million users a day send 15 million records, about 50 million requests to the database! In addition, you will work on the development of the new features for the project, work on improving internal algorithms, optimization/scaling of the service, protection against fraud and security, analytics, a / b testing and API projects.
Who we are looking for:
- 3+ years of commercial Rails development experience;
- Experience working on high-loaded projects;
- Experience in HTTP API design;
- Ability to find a compromise between perfect code and fast development;
- Love to release your work into production;
- Willingness and ability to test your code for integration;
- Perfectly deal with Git, not to be afraid of rebasing, do code reviews and pull requests.
- English language not lower than Intermediate
Benefits:
- Remote-friendly & Flexible working hours. The flexibility is incredible, performance is based on output, rather than hours spent working, you can be wherever you want!
- Apple devices for work
- Stock options after 12 months of employment (50% of basic salary)
- Winter office in Lisbon. We spend up to 3 months in the sunniest city of Europe during winter with the coverage of accommodation, flights, visas, and insurance for you and your SO
- Team buildings abroad in exciting locations, when borders are open, we will announce the next adventure!
- Health insurance coverage
- WellBeing program, that supports up to 2 counselling sessions per month
- 20 days holiday (excluding public holiday in the country you are based) + Week off at Christmas
- 1 extra day off, for each year of service (up to 5)
If you feel that that’s a match we would be excited to have you on our team!
- Department
- Backend Team
- Role
- Senior Backend Developer
- Locations
- Lisbon
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Yearly salary
- €60,000 - €90,000
- Employment type
- Contract

Senior Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails)
Meet a challenge: we have 160K requests per minute, half are writing, our database is growing by 1% per day, 5 million users a day send 15 million records, about 50 million requests to the database!
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