As a Senior Ruby on Rails, you will help your team solve customer problems and ship clean,maintainable code. In addition to shared backend services and front-end interfaces, you’llcontribute to our common libraries, mentor and pair with other developers, and strive to makeour software development process more efficient. You’ll focus on the full depth of our softwarestack, while also growing your technical breadth.About the team:
- We mostly run Ruby on Rails, and have brought in technologies like Elixir, Node, andRust.- We're open to using the right technologies for what we build.- We iterate quickly and ship multiple times a day.- We’re running an entirely dockerized deployment system, and we’re always makingimprovements to help our teams ship safer, and more quickly.- We work in small, distributed teams with product managers and designers and helpshape the products we build.- We have a strong tradition of supporting open source software. resque_scheduler,robut, resque_unit, and JSON API client were all extracted from our codebase, andwe've contributed patches back to Rails
Minimum Qualifications- You have 3+ years of experience developing web applications in Ruby/Rails- You are excited to continue working with Ruby/Rails- You have strong development principles, including experience with testing and TDD,object-oriented design, and higher-level system design.- You have experience developing web apps in Javascript, HTML, CSS.- You have been the primary owner/developer of several components or features.- You have a passion for quality. You take pride in keeping your bug count low andyour code quality high.- You have worked directly with non-devs (designers, PMs, user researchers, etc.) toship great products.- You believe in the value of mentorship, and in a teaching and learning culture.- You want to grow, and you're constantly finding small ways to improve all the workyou and your teammates do.- You have experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies.- You have strong English communication skills within a professional, developmentcontext (understanding technical requirements, documentation, communicating witha global team)
Nice to Have:● Experience developing web applications in Elixir/Phoenix, Django, Node or a similarMVC development framework● Contributed to or maintained open-source projects (Send us your GitHub profile!)● Experience transforming large Rails apps into a service-oriented or microservicearchitecture.● Strong focus on the people who use your software, even when it makes thingsharder.● Experience working closely with a team in problem solving, resolving ambiguities,etc.