Back End Developer (Ruby & Python) Mexico

Who are we? Fulcrum Digital is a leading IT services and business platform company. We partner with global companies from diverse industries, including banking and financial services, insurance, higher education, food services, retail, manufacturing, and eCommerce. With expertise in digital transformation, machine learning, and emerging technologies, we offer a consulting-led, integrated suite of enterprise-grade software products, services, and solutions.

The Role • Responsible for the analysis, design, development, and delivery of software solutions • Defines requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes, and best practices

What you’ll do? • Own software delivery tasks (code development, test, deployment) at an application/software component level• Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders• Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code• Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work• Influence the decisions made by the team• Assist peers and less experienced members• Demonstrate active learning and sharing of software practices via Guild/Engineering community initiatives• Assist in technical documentation of APIs and services being delivered

Requirements:• Proficiency using Ruby and Ruby on Rails (must-have) and Python (nice-to-have).• Proficiency with Docker-based deployments and cloud-based solutions (AWS preferred). • Experience creating back-end solutions and developing Restful APIs.• Experience using SQL as well as No-SQL-based solutions.• Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT)• Understand and implement standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices• Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity• Understand and build test code at the unit level, service level, and integration level to ensure code and functional coverage• Understand the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)• Understand requirement analysis as an essential part of delivering value to our customers and partners and participate in elaboration, prioritization, and effort estimation• Understand different SDLC practices (Waterfall/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and the delivery situations they are used for• Understand the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission-critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, and service-oriented architecture)• Understands Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization• Understand functional and non-functional testing types to elaborate and estimate test efforts• Fluent in Spanish and English

This is a fully remote contractor opportunity

Key Skills

• Python
• NoSQL