Senior Backend Engineer, Event Creation

At Hopin, we’re reimagining events. Our mission is simple: we exist to make the world feel closer. 

Founded in 2019, Hopin brings brands and communities together around highly interactive and engaging experiences. We believe that people should have access to the conversations, moments and ideas they care most about, no matter where they are. Through our highly scalable platform, participants are able to learn, engage, and connect from anywhere in the world. 

Hopin started as a virtual events solution but we have since meaningfully expanded our offering from virtual events to hybrid and in-person events, as well as video and workplace collaboration products. This growth has been fueled by a series of strategic acquisitions, including: Boomset - an all-in-one event management platform; Attendify - advancing Event Marketing products; StreamYard - unveiling a video production Studio; video hosting service Streamable and video technology company Jamm.

Listed as one of the 2021 Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators, Hopin has scaled to 800+ employees working remotely across 47 countries. Valued at $7.75B, Hopin raised a $450M Series D round of financing and is backed by top tier investors, including Arena Holdings, Altimeter Capital, Adam Street Partners, Untitled Investments, XN Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ Growth, General Catalyst, GIC, IVP, Northzone, Salesforce Ventures, Slack, Temasek and Tiger Global.

About the team

The Event Creation team works on the heart and soul of our Events venue platform. We focus on the event organizer experience, enabling organizers to build impactful events quickly and easily. We value collaboration and feedback as we build client-facing features, so we work closely with the product, design, data, UX and customer success teams to deliver a product that improves the customer experience.

We are a diverse bunch, spread across the Americas and Europe.

Who we are looking for

A self-motivated engineer with a passion for technology innovation. We look for teammates who are comfortable building thoughtful, comprehensive solutions but also practical when weighing tradeoffs. We value people who are advocates for improving user experience and seek to think through various edge cases.

We currently work with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and lately GraphQL, but the ability to adapt to changing technology is an important strength. More generally, you care about code quality and strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable.

We have a #NoEgo philosophy, so we love to collaborate and learn from each other together to come up with the best solution.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Promote and adopt standards and practices moving our Industry to the next level.
• Lead with empathy within a diverse team of engineers, helping the team to own complex challenges as well as learn and develop new skills.
• Work with multiple stakeholders, understanding their concerns and helping drive and prioritize the best results for our customers across the department.
• Experiment, iterate and propose solutions to our most difficult technical challenges.

Who You Are

• Knowledgeable in Ruby and Ruby on Rails and its design patterns, striving to develop maintainable and extensible code.
• Self starter who doesn’t hesitate to step up, getting things done, and leaving things better than you found it.
• Collaborative teammate happy to work well with others, eager to share your opinion and the reasoning behind it while also valuing and learning from others' opinions and viewpoints.
• Strong communicator, evidenced in code, documentation, and even slack messages you write.
• Experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging and distributed tracing.
• You are located in one of our eligible countries and able to work during our core hours of 2pm to 6pm GMT0

The Offer

• Fully remote, global team
• Flexible schedules
• Laptop assigned, Mac or Dell (Windows)
• Health Insurance Support
• Parental Leave
• $1000 USD for Home-Office Set up
• $100 USD monthly remote work stipend
• $1500 USD for Learning & Development

Where and How We Hire

Being a remote company enables us to hire the best talent around the world. We can engage with you in any of our jurisdictions listed below, all you need to do is demonstrate the legal right to work and be physically present in that country. Some roles may have specific workforce location requirements which will be noted on the job description.

• Entity: Canada, Germany, UK, USA
• Employer of Record: Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Australia
• Full Time Contractor (Self Employed): Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, Honduras, Hungary, Jamaica, Kenya, Lithuania, Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U.A.E., Uruguay

At Hopin, we're committed to cultivating an environment that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities must be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at Hopin. We strive to embed it not just into our core values but throughout our entire ecosystem.