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

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