Growth Engineer - Full-Stack Rails & Frontend

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology-focused recruitment agency is seeking an all-star Full Stack developer to enhance a social media platform. You'll collaborate with teams to build and optimize websites, drive member engagement, and migrate applications to updated frameworks. Ideal candidates have a strong Ruby on Rails background and are proficient in client-side technologies. This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment aiming to empower workers.

Qualifications

• Enthusiast in Ruby and Ruby on Rails with comprehensive framework experience.
• Advanced knowledge in client-side technologies to modify high-traffic websites.
• Experience in agile teamwork in fast-paced development.

Responsibilities

• Work with teams to build and maintain web platforms.
• Drive member acquisition and re-engagement strategies.
• Conduct data-driven experiments to optimize user experience and revenue.
• Migrate applications to updated serverless environments.
• Support applications for member communications.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

CSS

JavaScript

HTML

AJAX

jQuery

Bootstrap

Job description

We are a social media platform dedicated to empowering and advocating for the world’s workers. We developtechnology to help people lead better, more meaningful work-lives – providing access to jobs, tools to take action, and a community for support.Jobcase is an affiliate of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, andcollaborates with employers, nonprofits and government agencies to both improve, and diversify access to opportunity and participation in the workforce.

We are looking for an all-star Full Stack developer to help us build and manage our social media platform and growing network of career related websites. As a member of our Growth Engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in the day-to-day operations of our group helping to drive value for the business while at the same time empowering our members. The position calls for a detail-oriented individual capable of delivering high quality work in an engaging, intellectually challenging atmosphere.

What you’ll be doing here:

• • Work with data analysts, product and project managers to build and maintain our growing suite of websites
  • Help to drive new member acquisition and re-engage existing members
  • Institute data driven AB test experiments across high volume site flows to optimize revenue and overall user experience
  • Assist in migrating applications from Rails 4 AWS OpsWorks to Rails 6 AWS Elastic Beanstalk serverless environment
  • Responsible for supporting and enhancing core internal applications used to communicate with our 100 million+ members

About you and your skills:

• • Ruby and RoR enthusiast/guru, with experience working across all aspects of the framework (willing to consider candidates with comparable Web MVC experience with other frameworks)
  • Strong working knowledge of CSS, JavaScript, HTML and AJAX at the level it takes to quickly modify websites that serve millions of users per month
  • Experience with client-side JavaScript and CSS libraries such as jQuery and Bootstrap preferred
  • Experience working collaboratively in a fast paced, agile software development context