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Top Skills:
Ruby On Rails,Ruby,Sidekiq,Redis,Postgresql,Node.Js,Docker,Ci/Cd
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Develop and maintain customer-facing Ruby on Rails features, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive measurable business impact and user experience improvements.
Top Skills:
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As a Senior Software Developer, you'll implement new features, improve user experiences, and help mentor less experienced developers while ensuring code quality and optimal workflow processes.
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Senior Rails Engineer
Role Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Rails Engineer to join our dynamic development team. In this role, you will play a key part in architecting and building scalable, robust, and maintainable web applications while providing technical leadership, mentorship, driving technical excellence and proactively contributing to the evolution of our tech stack.
Responsibilities:- Application Development:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality, scalable Ruby on Rails applications.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following industry best practices.
- System Architecture:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams using the API first paradigm to design and implement APIs.
- Ensure the application is optimized for speed, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaboration & Leadership:
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to deliver features that meet user needs.
- Mentor other developers and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
- Quality Assurance:
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and push to strive for high-quality code standards.
- Implement automated testing frameworks to ensure robust software performance.
- Problem Solving:
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, security issues, and system limitations.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues efficiently.
- 3+ years of professional experience developing web applications with Ruby on Rails.
- Passion for writing readable, maintainable, elegant code and utilizing appropriate design patterns.
- Strong understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and experience with database design and optimization.
- Knowledge of background job processing systems (e.g., Sidekiq, Resque).
- Knowledge of RESTful API design and development. Bonus points for GraphQL.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Heroku, AWS).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Working Hours: ET (New York) timezone.
- Holidays: US holidays.
- Flexible PTO
- Proficiency in front-end technologies such as TypeScript, React and NextJS.
- Experience working with messaging systems (e.g, Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ).
- Familiarity with OpenSearch (or ElasticSearch).
- Experience with high volume production systems, ideally managing reliability.
- Experience with orchestration and containerization (e.g., EKS, K8s, Docker).
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