Knowde hiring Middle Back-End Software Engineer - Ruby/Rails • Remote (Work from Home) | Himalayas
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Middle Back-End Software Engineer - Ruby/Rails

Knowde is an online marketplace for chemicals, polymers, and ingredients, enabling R&D teams and buyers to search, sample, quote, and purchase from global producers in one platform.

Knowde

Employee count: 51-200

Poland only

About Knowde

Chemical companies are the hidden innovators behind the end-products we rely on every day. Chemistry is used to make every physical good on earth, including the products we love from Tesla, Glossier, Apple, Nike, 3M and JJ. And yet, the largest and most impactful industry in the world is still doing business the same way it did 100 years ago.

Knowde is building the first digital marketplace for the $5 trillion chemical industry. Chemical companies use Knowde to market and sell their products online for the first time ever. For buyers, Knowde has become their go-to destination to shop across the entire world of chemistry all in a single destination.

Buyers use Knowde as their go-to destination to discover and purchase chemicals from any chemical producer all in one place. By helping pull this industry online, we will accelerate the innovation behind every physical product in the world.

We’ve raised over $90M from the world’s leading investors, including Sequoia Capital and Coatue, to realize our vision.

Come Join Us!

Knowde is looking to for an ambitious and meticulous Back-End Engineer to join our Engineering team. You will help us invent, design, refine, and deliver the products that will enable this digital transformation. The products we will create together simply do not exist today. This is your chance to fundamentally affect how product innovation occurs globally across industries.

What You'll Be Doing

  • As a small, remote team you’ll be empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and the future of the product.
  • Be a trailblazer by contributing to the build of a complex ecommerce marketplace, the first of its kind in the Chemicals space.
  • Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality.
  • Own your projects from software design to implementation and deployment.
  • Take pride in your work by implementing cutting-edge technologies and writing state-of-the-art code.
  • Emphasize simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate.

What You Should Have

    • Good knowledge of Ruby language and Rails framework (3+ years)
    • Strong understanding of SQL
    • Ability to take tasks from requirements to deployment
    • Ability to work within distributed, multidisciplinary teams
    • Design and build scalable, high-availability mission-critical systems and APIs
    • High attention to detail
    • Ability to properly design and implement clear and scalable project structure
    • Experience with test-driven development. Ability to create and maintain useful test suite.
    • Fluent in speaking and writing English
    • Fluent Polish is a must

Our Stack

  • Languages: Ruby
  • Frameworks: RoR
  • Databases: PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB / Redis / S3

Our Perks Benefits

  • Location: Rzeszów or Bialystok office (Poland), or remotely from Poland
  • Flexible working hours
  • Opportunity to work on innovative projects with a strong team of engineers
  • Plenty of room to learn and grow your own career as the team scales out

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Knowde upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.

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Knowde's journey began in 2017, born from a vision to revolutionize an industry deeply rooted in tradition – the chemical sector. Ali Amin-Javaheri, the company's CEO and co-founder, brought with him years of experience from ChemPoint, where he recognized the immense potential for digital transformation in how chemicals, polymers, and ingredients were bought and sold. He teamed up with Wojciech Krupa, a friend from business school with a strong background in building online marketplaces for major companies like LinkedIn, to serve as the technical co-founder. Janakiraman Swamy, a former colleague of Amin-Javaheri's from ChemPoint and a highly technical mind, joined as Chief Knowledge Officer. Together, they embarked on a mission to create the first truly functional digital marketplace for the chemical industry, a sector valued at trillions of dollars yet largely operating through offline, often cumbersome processes. The core idea was to bring the ease and efficiency of modern e-commerce to a complex B2B environment.

The challenge was substantial: the chemical industry was characterized by fragmented information, often locked away in PDFs and requiring lengthy back-and-forth communication between buyers and sellers. Knowde set out to change this by building a comprehensive platform where R&D teams and procurement specialists could search, compare, sample, quote, and purchase products from a vast array of global suppliers, all in one centralized location. This involved not just creating a marketplace, but also developing sophisticated AI-powered tools to digitize, organize, and enrich complex product data. The company's name itself, 'Knowde,' reflects its mission to be the 'node that connects knowledge' within the chemical world. From its headquarters in San Jose, California, Knowde has steadily grown, attracting significant investment and onboarding thousands of chemical suppliers, including major industry players. Their platform now serves a wide range of sectors, from food and nutrition to personal care and industrial applications, aiming to accelerate innovation by making the discovery and procurement of chemical ingredients faster, more transparent, and more efficient for everyone involved.

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