Ruby on Rails Developer

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer position is a team leadership role, engaging engineering excellence in a highly collaborative group of business minded technologists - that seek continuous improvement in self and others - and giving back to the customers and community. This is a great opportunity for a senior industry professional to apply their industry and academic experience, engage with engineering management, senior engineers, architects, to drive concepts to customer delight in an agile fashion. As a team leader in Software Engineering, you are a driving force behind the delivery of multiple business objectives that leverage and extend our technical platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Drive continuous improvement of SDLC, programming principles, combined with empirical professional experience into innovative solutions for next generation software applications
• Develop, integrate, document libraries, frameworks and APIs that allow us to effectively scale development on our applications across multiple projects as common services or components, within scope, cost, time & quality constraints
• Build quality into agile product lifecycle encompassing requirements, design, code, testing, delivery, support
• Participate in planning sessions as a technical SME and decomposing work to approachable portions that can be delegated to other engineers
• Support our products, identify and fix root causes of production incidents, own troubleshooting and resolution of support issues
• Participate in discovery, solutioning, monitoring, and incident response/resolution.
• Demonstrate data-driven analysis and pragmatic decision making aligned with business and technology needs
• Differentiate between immediate needs vs long term solutions
• Serve as a technical lead for your team as needed or special purpose projects per business priority
• Stay current with learning current trends in technology while mentoring and guiding other engineers

Candidate Requirements:

• Bachelors or Associates in Computer Science or applicable experience.
• 4+ years of relevant work experience, REST services, SOA, micro-services, unit testing, mocking frameworks, automation frameworks.
• 3+ years experience working with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) in a mature CI/CD SDLC environment.
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, web development, design patterns, SOLID principles, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.). Working knowledge of SQL/NO SQL databases and ORM/DAO concepts.
• Ability to quickly get up to speed in a Ruby development environment.
• Strong communication, partnership, teamwork and influencing skills required.
• Ruby, Rails, Elixir, JavaScript, Vue.js, Phoenix, CRDB, Heroku, Postgres, Kafka, AWS

Bonus:

• Open source contribution, repositories, personal projects.
• Participation in communities of interest, meetups.
• Certifications in technology, agile methodologies.
• Prior experience in agile implemented at scale across multiple teams globally.