Senior Software Developer-Ruby on Rails, GoLang, and SQL

We are on a mission to build smart, inspired and useful products for faculty and academic communities. By building an engine for faculty activity, decisions, and data, we have become the first mover in defining and owning the category of faculty-focused technology that cultivates goal-oriented collaboration around academic decision-making.

As we operate the first holistic faculty information system to support the full lifecycle of faculty work, from job seeking to review, tenure, sabbatical, committee work, research, and beyond. Offering colleges and universities increased clarity and insight into faculty data to help achieve their strategic initiatives, we believe that advancing the faculty will advance the institution.

What’s even better than that?We’ve crafted a fun, collegial, dynamic culture that celebrates team and individual success almost daily. We’ve got a lean team of super-smart, super-hard working, local and remote colleagues who collaborate closely to produce a valuable service for an industry we’re passionate about. And, we genuinely like working with each other and with our clients

Like what you've heard so far?Then consider joining our growing team! This team is responsible for the complex flow of data across teams, data centers, and organizational boundaries. We embed advanced analytics into the DNA of decision-making across our customer product suite as well as our own internal operations.

Flexible, well-connected, and well-architected data is the backbone of successful storytelling. As a senior software engineer, you will play an important role in helping to build and expand our data platform. In this cross-functional role, you will develop a deep understanding of our business producing a faculty information system that enables faculty, researcher, and institutional success.

In this role, you’ll get to:Design and build our data platform and related analytical tools using Ruby on Rails, GoLang, and SQLLead and plan with DataOps team members and DevOps to identify and implement data strategy in accordance with data sources, data locations, and business use cases Create and maintain complex and scalable enterprise-level microservices Improve scalability, service reliability, capacity, and performance Leverage third party APIs to build integrations with other systems Establish data streaming and CDC architecture using Kafka and Debezium Work with large codebases to identify opportunities for refactoring or migration to external services Participate in code review and mentoring of other team members Produce robust automated unit tests

Required Qualifications: Proficient producing high-quality code in Ruby on Rails or GoLang Strong knowledge of SQL databases, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including database and query design techniquesExperience building CDC streaming services using Kafka and Debezium Expertise with service-oriented architectures (SOA), REST APIs, and GraphQL Skilled in using git for version control Experience with gems such as PRY, Rubocop, RSPEC, CANCANCAN Demonstrated ability to focus and carefully step through intricate logic to research and identify root causes behind data anomalies Insatiable curiosity and eagerness to learn Patient, methodical, detail-oriented, and comfortable pivoting based on business needs Strong logical and quantitative skills; ability to grasp business context behind the data Self-starter, positive problem-solving outlook, ability to multi-task, and demonstrated strong organizational skills

Key Skills

• Ruby
• PostgreSQL