Ruby Developer - remote

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”)