Ruby on Rails engineer

Jobinhalt

Kaia is a mission-focused health technology company.

Our story began in 2016, when our founders, Konstantin Mehl and Manuel Thurner, created a mission to bring affordable and accessible relief to millions of people with chronic conditions. No strangers to chronic pain themselves, they decided to innovate ways to remove the obstacles many people experience in getting the leading-edge care they need.

How do Kaia apps work? Kaia uses a dynamic AI-powered algorithm. Our programs are based on multimodal rehabilitation, a holistic approach to managing chronic conditions. Our users have easy access via smartphone and tablet to our programs for back/hip/knee pain and COPD using this evidence-based approach.

Five years into our story, we are a leader in digital therapeutics, with 500,000+ users worldwide. Having raised $125 million from investors like Optum Ventures, idInvest, and Balderton Capital, to name a selected few, we are poised to create a global footprint in digital self-care. Kaia is patient empowerment made easy.

The regulatory landscape is quickly adapting to the digital ecosystem. Therefore, our mission and strategy bring new opportunities for determined talent to join our journey. With over 100 “Kaianeers” spread across the US and Europe, we now need more specialized talent to help take our mission further.

The role encompasses:

• Actively contributing to product development and improvement within a cross-functional, self-managed team
• Software development within a modern environment (Rails 6.1, >90% test coverage with RSpec, AWS cloud platform)
• Helping shape and implement the product vision to make it ready for new features, a growing user base, and multiple disease apps (back pain, knee/hip pain, COPD, and more) - we see ourselves as product engineers more than coders

Your Profile:

• You are a strong problem solver with a first professional experience ( >1year) with Ruby, ideally on Rails
• You prioritize clean software design and simplicity. You see code as a means to an end of creating a great product.
• Good foundations on software architecture and ability to base engineering decisions on product vision
• You are actively growing as a software engineer: you read articles or books on software engineering, you’re aware of current Ruby/Rails versions, and you look out for solutions beyond the first thing that comes to mind
• Willingness and ability to work in a cross-functional, product-focused team, and the ability to actively participate in the conceptualization of future features
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently

Ideally you also have:

• Competency in frontend web development (javascript, HTML, Vue)
• Strong grasp on SQL and data modeling fundamentals
• Experience with Ruby testing frameworks (we’re using RSpec)

You’ll fit in with our company culture if you:

• Are user centric and view technology as a tool to improve a user’s life
• Have a bias for action; the world is complex and unpredictable place so starting, releasing, and getting feedback iteratively is the only possible path to success
• Strive to be articulate and humble, make the complex simple, present ideas openly, accepting that being wrong is part of the process
• Are not afraid of tackling problems that others deem impossible
• Thrive in an entrepreneurial team, adapt easily to change, and enjoy a fast-paced environment
• Have worked in a fast-growing organization before (preferred)

Some of the benefits we offer:

• Opportunity to shape the future of digital health – one of the fastest growing industries
• We believe we have only built a fraction of what we have imagined
• Work with an experienced founding team (previously founded and scaled Foodora)
• Flat hierarchies, flexible vacation and working times
• Personal development budget of 1200 Euro per year
• Free drinks, team events, knowledge sharing sessions, engineering library
• Flexible remote work policy

Some of the benefits of being a Kaianeer:

You can directly influence the future of digital health in a team of industry experts and digital shapers.

You will work alongside serial entrepreneurs (previously founded and scaled another startup, Foodora).

You’ll enjoy flat hierarchies, a hybrid work from home/office environment, and flexible vacation and working times.

We support your professional development and have a budget set aside for you just for that!

Happy hours, team events, and knowledge-sharing sessions galore!

Join us if you’re looking for an entrepreneurial adventure and an exciting place to grow personally and professionally.

Job Type: Full-time