Senior Ruby Developer

Job Title: Senior Ruby DeveloperLocation: Canada - 100% remoteDuration: 1 year

As a senior Ruby dev, you will:Work with a focused team of other talented engineers, designers, and product managers to develop our existing backend systems in a scalable fashionCommunicate your design through documentations such as flow charts, sequence, entity relationship, GraphQL schema or OpenAPI schema diagramsIntroduce new ideas, processes, and technologies to help evolve our infrastructure and architectureMentor junior developers through collaboration and code reviewsCollaborate with the product and business teams to identify new opportunities to develop new features and productsYou should be the kind of person who:Cares about high-quality, elegant code and architectureDevelops in an AGILE way without compromising qualityThinks deeply and critically about problems, tools, and processesIs passionate about building systems that have a positive social impactHas a decent sense humor (our dev team has a weird obsession with the Simpsons, sandwiches, and questionable emoji)

You should have:3 years working experience developing in Ruby5 years experience building complex, scalable backend systemsExperience with distributed systems and microservices (Event driven architecture, CQRS, Domain Driven Design)Experience with React or another framework based on unidirectional data flowExperience building microservices in Node.js or DenoSome experience/knowledge in TypescriptExperience in designing normalized (3NF) relational SQL databasesExperience building RESTful and GraphQL APIs at scaleExperience writing functional tests (unit, integration and system tests)Knowledge of best practices such as KISS, YAGNI, DRY and SOLID principlesKnowledge of OOP and functional paradigms

Key Skills

• React
• TypeScript
• Ruby
• OOP
• Microservices