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Backend Systems Engineer

xneelo |Posted 1 day ago

Skills and experience

Role:Backend engineer
Other roles:DevOps engineer, Full stack engineer
Experience in role:5+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    Ruby
    Linux
    Agile

Location and salary

Remote policy:Remote
Location of job:South Africa
Visa requirements:No specific requirements
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

Join xneelo as a Backend Systems Engineer and become part of a fully remote, cross-functional engineering team dedicated to building world-class API infrastructure. You'll work on architecting and maintaining secure, consistent, and reliable services that empower our customers to manage their hosting services seamlessly. Our team takes full responsibility for their part of the xneelo ecosystem, working in autonomous Agile teams that embrace collaboration and innovation. As a large-scale, mass-market hosting company, we face unique and complex challenges that demand creative solutions.

You'll tackle exciting problem spaces including implementing industry-standard software development practices, expanding our CI implementation, solving scaling problems, and delivering reliable, performant platforms. Your work will transform complexity into click-of-a-button simplicity, directly delighting our customers through backend infrastructure excellence.

We're passionate about frequent, iterative delivery of high-quality software using Agile principles and cutting-edge technology. Our tech stack includes Ruby (though we're happy for you to transition from Java, Go, Python, or PHP), various databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB), and modern tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and configuration management systems. We value self-motivated team members who embrace test-driven development, pursue projects to full completion, and share ideas to drive continuous improvement. With 5+ years of backend development experience and strong Linux fundamentals, you'll thrive in our collaborative, innovation-focused environment.

About xneelo

201-500 employees

About us:

Xneelo offers web hosting and business enablement to more than 500 000 websites.

Since 1999, we’ve channelled our expertise and passion into enabling individuals, entrepreneurs and small businesses alike to create and transact online. Inspired by our brand promise 'Trusted in Hosting', we are dedicated to delivering reliable, award-winning support to our customers. If it doesn’t benefit our customers, it's not worth doing.

Why join us?

We believe in teamwork and are proud of our culture that we’ve all worked hard to create.

We’re looking for team members who have the potential for mastery: kind and competent people who are prepared to grow in skill and character throughout their time at xneelo. We encourage growth and the pursuit of excellence through ongoing self-learning and mentorship.

What to expect when applying:

  • An informal chat with the technical talent specialist at xneelo (around 30 minutes).
  • Meet with Head of Software Engineering and Practice Leads.
  • A technical interview with the team you will be joining.
  • Code Pairing session.

Perks at xneelo

Consensus leave* (no fixed quota)
5 days paid paternity leave
Daycare subsidy for mothers of small children
Comprehensive medical aid options for you and eligible dependents
Subsidised team sports & onsite shower facilities
Flexible working hours
Retirement plan, Life insurance, Disability cover

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Rails
Rails
Sass
Sass
Sidekiq
Sidekiq
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Javascript
Javascript
Node.js
Node.js
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
Ruby
Ruby
MongoDB
MongoDB
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
C#
C#
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
nginx
nginx

utilities

Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Mailgun
Mailgun

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
Bower
Bower
GitHub
GitHub
Jenkins
Jenkins
Travis CI
Travis CI
Git
Git
Docker
Docker
GitLab
GitLab
Puppet
Puppet
Selenium
Selenium
Vagrant
Vagrant
New Relic
New Relic
npm
npm

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
Trello
Trello
HipChat
HipChat

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