Senior Ruby Developer

The Role: 

You should consider yourself a "generalist" but are well-versed in Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and frontend HTML and CSS. You have strong confidence in your ability to pick up new skills be it code or otherwise. Ideally, you have worked in an agile team or at least well-versed in the concepts. You have a competitive spirit that is accompanied by a positive “I can accomplish anything I put my mind to” mentality. You also possess great communication skills.

 

This position requires candidates to have experience shipping and maintaining production-level code as well as writing well planned requirements documents and technical specs. Applicants with a strong Git/BitBucket portfolio are preferred.

 

 

Responsibilities: 

  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle of SaaS and web applications
  • Develop, code, test, and debug new software or enhancements to existing web platforms and software
  • Conduct software audits to ensure compliance with application requirements and specifications
  • Support software quality assurance and configuration management activities
  • A desire to solve real-world problems, making customers lives easier
  • Identify user and system requirements for new websites and applications
  • Prioritize software development projects, set timelines and assign tasks to team members
  • Write effective and scalable code in Ruby
  • Build back-end components for web applications
  • Test applications for performance, responsiveness and security
  • Integrate data storage and data processing solutions
  • Build, install and share gems and plugins
  • Create automated test scripts
  • Improve and maintain applications after deployment
  • Coordinate with team members who work on different layers of infrastructure
  • Write or review code for various applications
  • Run functionality testings and debug code (BDD, TDD)
  • Liaise with designers to decide on UX/UI elements

 

 

Requirements: 

  • 7+ years of professional experience in web development, of which at least 5 years with Ruby on Rails developing SaaS applications
  • A strong background being a 'full stack engineer' from devops to database to frontend code.
  • Firm understanding of the Rails framework and ecosystem.
  • Professional experience working with SOAP, RESTful, and GraphQL API’s.
  • Ability to write SQL queries and then optimize them.
  • Familiarity with both functional and object-oriented development patterns
  • Passion for working with cross-functional teams
  • Bonus: Dev-ops experience with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and/or Docker, Python, PHP
  • 3-5 years management experience or similar role 

 

 

To apply click "Apply Now" below or send resume & cover letter to HR@freebirdstores.com. Please ensure you specify the role you're looking to be considered for. We can't wait to meet you! 




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