Rails Backend Engineer - remote

Posted 3 years ago

In this role you will:

  • Expand upon your skills as a full stack developer working on a wide variety of client and internal projects, with a primary focus on backend development using Ruby on Rails.
  • Bonus if you have Node or Elixir experience
  • Collaborate with other engineers and designers to develop and ship features
  • Design, build, and maintain API’s
  • Write efficient, modular, and reusable libraries and abstractions
  • Find and solve performance issues
  • Participate in code reviews
  • Interface directly with members of our team and client teams.
  • Iterate on internal development best practices and operations.
  • Write content based on your learning and experiences

Requirements

In order for you to be successful in the role, you must:

  • Have experience commensurate with a senior-level developer role (4 - 8 years professional development experience) with robust experience and knowledge of Ruby on Rails.
  • Have professional or personal projects which demonstrate your abilities as a developer
  • Understand the lifecycle of a project from inception to deployment
  • Be a critical thinker who challenges the status quo;you question and suggest improvements in workflow, scope or design
  • Able to prioritize and self-manage as we give all of our employees a lot of autonomy
  • Be a great human to your coworkers and our clients
  • Be eager to coach teams you work with on best practices and approaches
  • Be hungry to level-up your skills and those of your coworkers
  • Be proactive when it comes to identifying and solving problems
  • Be a strong communicator who is adept at collaborating with teammates
  • remotely and comfortable interfacing with clients
  • Be humble and willing to raise your hand to ask for help when you need it

Be comfortable and happy working remotely;we're a distributed team and we allow our employees to work anywhere in the continental