Ruby Developer - remote

Intellum
Posted 3 years ago

Description

We are currently looking for a Senior Rails Engineer to join our team and become a key part of all of our engineering efforts!

Responsibilities

  • Write well-crafted, high-quality, self-documented, and easy to maintain code
  • Design, implement, and test new performance and security improvements for our platform
  • Work collaboratively with teammates
  • Perform code reviews for teammates
  • Periodically take on tier 2 on-call support duties to handle support requests
  • Troubleshooting our production app and isolating issues to fix
  • Senior Engineers are additionally expected to:
    • Drive the architectural direction of the software
    • Take on ownership of major components or engineering processes
    • Mentor less-experienced engineers and ensure code quality

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 - 7 years of experience developing software professionally
  • 3 - 5 years experience writing production Rails applications
  • Ruby (We're on 2.x)
  • Rails (We're on 6.x)
  • PostgreSQL (We're on 12)
  • Background/async processing solutions (such as Sidekiq)
  • Experience with Rails application server (such as Passenger)
  • Experience with cloud computing platform (such as AWS, GCS)
  • Solid experience working on larger scale production Rails applications and have good all around back end skills.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
  • Excellent understanding of relational databases and SQL
  • Exposure to NoSQL technologies such as Redis and ElasticSearch
  • Experience with version control tools such as Git and GitHub

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent related experience

Physical Requirements/Work Environment:

  • Occasional irregular work hours
  • Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, etc.
  • Extended time viewing a computer monitor
  • Sitting or standing for extended periods of time

Benefits

  • Insurance (US Based Only)
    • Medical - 100% of employee premiums covered
    • Dental - 100% of employee premiums covered
    • Vision - 100% of employee premiums covered
    • 401(k) with matching (US Based Only)
  • Education (Available to all employees)
    • $3,500 per year in educational funds (“Boost Budget”)