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Tools Team Engineer at Heroku (Full Time EMEA Contractor)

The position is filled, thanks!


Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS cloud, continuously delivering millions of apps with a high volume of deploys per day. Our vision is for developers to focus on their applications, and leave operations to us.

At Heroku we have the unique problem of building and deploying software that allows our customers to build and deploy software. Our internal Tools team helps engineers be more productive, and is currently focused on making the experience of getting code from engineers’ laptops to production safely and quickly. We build polished products for our internal teams that are just as great as what we give our customers externally.

We’re looking for an engineer in the EMEA (Europe/Middle East/Africa) region that will be responsible for:

  • Understanding problems engineers at Heroku have
  • Prioritizing the most widespread problems to ensure we have the greatest impact
  • Writing clear, simple software to solve these problems
  • Thinking deeply about how software is developed, and how to improve the engineering process
  • Calling Heroku's world class engineering organization your customers and building awesome tools they want to use everyday

Qualified candidates should have:

  • Experience with iterative software development using Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
  • Comfort with the standard GitHub pull request workflow
  • Strong understanding and experience with continuous delivery and automated testing
  • Experience carrying a pager for a production service
  • Technical proficiency with Heroku, RESTful web services, and Linux
  • Working knowledge of large scale service-oriented infrastructure and the design of scalable, highly available systems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with geographically distributed teams and people of various backgrounds

You should be enthusiastic about:

  • Helping other engineers do their jobs better
  • How software is built and deployed
  • Software quality
  • Applying software solutions to unexpected problem spaces

Bonus points for:

  • Public work where you’ve solved a problem you’ve faced
  • Aesthetic and visual design skills
  • Experience integrating with GitHub, Heroku, AWS, and Slack APIs

When applying, include as many of the following as possible:

  • A link to your Github account or code samples
  • Brief description of your skills, passions, and work style
  • Link to your blog and/or other personal/hobby apps you’ve built
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ruurd commented Dec 6, 2016

OK. I'm game. Is it possible to take this offline?

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