Senior Rails Engineer (US Based)

Job Description

Posted 22 days ago

• 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

  • 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

  • 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