Staff Engineer (x/f/m)

What we do

At Doctolib we build products that need to scale to millions of people throughout Europe and to yet remain easily maintainable by hundreds of developers. We do several daily deployments, and run 25K+ automated tests through our CI pipeline. The backend runs on Ruby on Rails, backed by PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Our PostgreSQL databases represent a total of 30TB and receive 30M queries by minute under high traffic.

The team which you will join is responsible for:

• Improving and protecting the health of our datastores,
• Empowering the whole tech teams to use our datastores in the most efficient way,
• Collaborating everyday with our Database Administrators, Principal Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers.

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our team to play a critical role in our mission.

Your missions

As a Staff Engineer on our tech teams, you will be at the forefront of maintaining and tackling tech challenges at Doctolib.

 You will:

• Develop and improve core components.
• Educate and empower feature teams on best practices.
• Help break down our main PostgreSQL database into smaller, more scalable databases.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers.
• Keep an eye on performance and offer suggestions to feature teams on how to optimize it.
• Set up monitoring and alerting to catch performance issues.

Your skills

Before you read on, if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set, we still encourage you to apply!

• You are proficient in Java, Ruby on Rails, or similar language, and champion coding best practices while upholding security and code quality standards.
• You possess excellent communication skills to efficiently transmit knowledge and foster an environment of intellectual exchange and continuous improvement with both junior and senior team members.

Now, it would be fantastic if you also:

• Have faced challenges of high traffic web applications, particularly scalability challenges on large databases.

The interview process 

• Phone screen with a Tech Recruiter
• Live coding interview
• System design interview
• Behavioral interview

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles!

At Doctolib, we believe in improving access to healthcare for everyone - regardless of where you come from, what you look like. This translates into our recruitment process: Doctolib is an equal opportunity employer. We don't just accept diversity at Doctolib, we respect and celebrate it!

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. If you have a disability, let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process smoother for you!

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