Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer - remote

Boatyard is an exciting tech company on a mission to connect the world of boating through our award-winning mobile app and SaaS software.

We are looking for a senior engineer who would embrace the opportunity to take a leadership role with our fast growing startup. Our ideal candidate has 7+ years experience as a Ruby on Rails engineer, with 3+ years in a leadership role.. If you are a collaborative, problem solver with a passion for programming, we'd love to hear from you.

Our tech stack :

• Ruby on Rails
• Postgres Database (on AWS RDS)
• NginX web server
• Amazon Web Services for Hosting (EC2 instances)
• WePay Payments (payment integration)
• JSON based Boatyard API
• GraphQL
• Apollo

Front end:

• React Native
• React 

This is a unique opportunity for a self-driven problem solver who is passionate about delivering quality code. 

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with the operations team on sprint planning, scheduling and implementation
• Creating and maintaining a feature roadmap with founder and key stakeholders
• Managing the development team to ensure on-time delivery of product features and completion of sprints
• Implement unit testing and plan for ongoing development of a test suite Managing app development projects
• Perform additional development projects, such as email campaigns, website development, etc.
• Manage admin/developer accounts for various third-party applications
• Performing code reviews and QA
• Improving existing APIs and building new, unit-tested APIs, Creating unit tests
• Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time and as the most practical solution to meet business goals.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience developing Ruby on Rails apps that interface with Restful APIs 
• Experience with Third-Party API Integrations
• Possess excellent communication skills
• Fluent speaking and writing in English
• Write high quality, well-structured code
• Available to work 40+ hours/week during EST work hours
• Experience with graphQL a plus
• Experience with DevOps (AWS) a plus

Why Boatyard?

• You would be joining a team that believes our work is a craft, and takes great pride in what we do. 
• We are an innovation lab within a larger company, combining the culture of a startup with the security of working for a corporation
• Lots of opportunity for growth