Ruby on Rail Developers - USA (Remote)

Posted 3 years ago

*Please note position is fully remote*

Within3 is searching for an experienced Senior Ruby ETL Data Engineer to work within an agile team of software architects and developers to implement and maintain secure, scalable, cloud-based data/ETL pipelines for our public and customer-specific data integrations. Technical aptitude is a must, and so is the right team-minded attitude and the ability to work interchangeably with others. Applicants should be qualified as top-notch Ruby, Rails, and ETL developers.

Responsibilities

  • Deep appreciation and understanding of data, scale, and Ruby on Rails.
  • Live and breathe a DevOps culture on a small team of Senior SDEs and SREs that work hand-in-hand with you to deliver modern, scalable, SaaS software across multiple cloud providers.
  • Own and implement the key data delivery pipelines for the company’s flagship SaaS platform.
  • Follow software development best practices to create maintainable and extensible software solutions.
  • Work with modern CI/CD tools and methodologies to ship products on a daily basis.
  • Work in an agile manner with transparency and fluid communication within the engineering team and across other teams in the company.
  • Work with the product owners to understand internal and external requirements and help the team design solutions to satisfy these.
  • Work with Senior SREs to contribute to the overall platform stability, availability, and quality.
  • Enable SREs to have visibility and responsibility into the function of the code they are operating.
  • Interact directly with SREs and customers to triage, debug, and remediate production issues.

Requirements

  • Experience with Sidekiq, ActiveAdmin, Custom DSLs, or very similar is a must.
  • 5+ years of professional experience developing ETL software for modern cloud environments.
  • 5+ years of professional programming experience with languages and frameworks such as Ruby, Rails, Python, etc.
  • Familiar with cloud and Linux sysadmin experience –IaaS, PaaS, and container/orchestration experience is important.
  • Real-world shipping product development experience using client-side JavaScript frameworks and backend dynamic languages/frameworks in a service-oriented architecture.
  • Proven track record of success in a high-functioning continuous delivery environment.
  • Working knowledge and hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or similar container/orchestration).
  • Expertise with a variety of relational and NoSQL databases. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Couchbase, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis preferred.
  • Solid understanding of modern API design patterns (REST, GraphQL, JSON, etc.)
  • Understanding of source control systems (git, hg, etc.) and related workflow patterns (e.g. GitFlow)
  • Familiarity with Big Data systems such as Hadoop, HBase, HDFS, Spark, Kafka, etc. is a plus.
  • Understanding of privacy-by-design frameworks, and code-level security techniques is a plus.
  • Strong verbal and written communication and documentation skills are required.

Benefits