At Zendesk, we truly believe that to build a great product you have to have great people. We enjoy working with folks that are learning focused who care about both the customer and the code they write. We value collaboration and test driven development and release frequently. We like and use agile processes and believe that pragmatism always triumphs over dogmatism. We all are responsible for our product and enjoy the impact we have improving it.
The Talk team are looking for a hardworking software engineer to help take Zendesk products to the next level in terms of functionality and integrations. Youll be joining a team that works on our Talk products. Talk is a sophisticated real-time application that needs to be robust, scalable and maintainable. Youll have the passion, patience and determination to deliver high quality software to meet our customers needs. Does this sound like you?
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What you'll do:
- Work collaboratively with a small focused self-organising team to deliver positive outcomes for our many customers.
- Participate in every stage of the development life-cycle from design to implementation, testing, rollout and making everything run efficiently in production.
- Follow and improve our practices throughout development: TDD, spiking/prototyping, pairing, peer code review, design review and rapid deployment.
- When working on debugging a tricky intermittent issue you wont give up until the feature behaves as expected, source of issue has been identified and an automated test has been put in place to avoid the issue reoccurring.
What you bring:
- Ideally you will have experience with our main stack Ruby/Rails, Javascript and React.
- You recognise working within a team is more challenging but also more valuable and in the end, more exciting.
- You are just as happy diagnosing latency, writing technical documents, refactoring code to be more readable, or developing product features.
- You want to whiteboard problems with your teammates and apply the scientific method to finding a pragmatic solution that is the best fit (on balance) for the identified problem space.
- Strong communication skills. You can explain your views well to others and just as important, listen actively to others ensuring a healthy, productive discussion.
- We dont expect you to know everything, so dont hesitate to apply if you dont check all the items above
Nice to have:
- Any knowledge or experience of VOIP or telecoms industry would contribute useful background knowledge.
- Leadership potential; as a growing team in a dynamic sector we're building for the future. We invest in our team and want people who take ownership and hold themselves and their team accountable.
Tech Stack & Tools
We code primarily in Ruby & Rails for the backend, primarily React JS (Redux) and Ember (legacy) for the frontend. We use MySQL, Redis and Kafka for event processing.
Our infrastructure is run on Kubernetes and our delivery pipeline is heavily reliant on Github & Github Actions, once deployed we monitor using Datadog.
We communicate over Slack and use Zoom for meetings etc. Google Docs, JIRA, Confluence are our most used collaboration tools.
The Poland annualized base salary range for this position is zł154,000.00-zł230,000.00. Please note that while the salary range represents the minimum and maximum base salary rate for this position, the actual compensation offered will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives that will be communicated during the offer stage.
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