Senior Ruby Engineer Computer/Software Seattle, Washington

DevSelect; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is looking for a Senior Ruby Engineer to join their agile team. The position focuses on implementing cloud-based data pipelines and requires deep knowledge of Ruby and Rails, with opportunities to work in a collaborative environment. This role emphasizes the importance of DevOps culture and provides an enriching work/life balance with several employee benefits.

Benefits

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

401K

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

Work/life balance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional programming experience in Ruby and Rails.
• Experience with cloud platforms and Linux systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain secure, scalable data pipelines.
• Work with product owners to design solutions.
• Collaborate with SREs for platform stability.

Skills

Ruby

Rails

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

API design patterns

Linux

Education

Formal higher-education degrees in STEM fields

Vocational certificates related to software development

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Couchbase

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Title: Senior Ruby Engineer
Location: Seattle, WA - Remote
Openings: 1
Type: Full Time Hire

Job Description

The CLIENT is searching for an experienced Senior Ruby Engineer to work within an agile team of software architects and developers to implement and maintain secure, scalable, cloud-based data/ETL pipelines for our public and customer specific data integrations. Technical aptitude is a must, and so is the right team-minded attitude and the ability to work interchangeably with others. The core team is as a small SWAT-style team with everyone pulling their own weight, playing a variety of roles, and covering each other’ responsibilities when needed. Applicants should be qualified as top-notch full-stack developers, with a passion for focusing on backend service-oriented architectures, scalable system design, databases and data models, and API-driven models.

Job Responsibilities

• Deep appreciation and understanding of data, scale and Ruby on Rials.
• Live and breathe a DevOps culture on a small team of Senior SDEs and SREs that work hand-in-hand with you to deliver modern, scalable, SaaS software across multiple cloud providers.
• Own and implement the key data delivery pipelines for the company’s flagship SaaS platform.
• Follow software development best practices to create maintainable and extensible software solutions.
• Work with modern CI/CD tool and methodologies to ship product on a daily basis.
• Work in an agile manner with transparency and fluid communication within the engineering team and across other teams in the company.
• Work with product owner to understand internal and external requirements and help the team design solutions to satisfy these.
• Work with Senior SREs to contribute to the overall platform stability, availability, and quality.
• Enable SREs to have visibility and responsibility into the function of the code they are operating.
• Interact directly with SREs and customers to triage, debug, and remediate production issues.

Experience and Qualifications

• Education: Formal higher-education degrees in STEM fields or vocational certificates related to software development are preferred, but not required. Real-world experience and proven track records count as much, if not more.
• Experience with Sidekiq, ActiveAdmin, Custom DSLs or very similar is a must.
• 5+ years of professional programming experience with languages and frameworks such as Ruby, Rails, Python, etc.
• Familiar with cloud and Linux sysadmin experience – IaaS, PaaS, and container/orchestration experience is important.
• Real-world shipping product development experience using client-side JavaScript frameworks and backend dynamic languages/frameworks in a service-oriented architecture.
• Proven track record of success in high-functioning continuous delivery environment.
• Working knowledge and hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or similar container/orchestration).
• Expertise with a variety of relational and NoSQL databases. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Couchbase, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis preferred.
• Solid understanding of modern API design patterns (REST, GraphQL, JSON, etc.)
• Understanding of source control systems (git, hg, etc.) and related workflow patterns (e.g. GitFlow)
• Familiarity with Big Data systems such as Hadoop, HBase, HDFS, Spark, Kafka, etc. is a plus.
• Understanding of privacy-by-design frameworks, and code-level security techniques is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication and documentation skills is required.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• 401K
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• A work/life balance beyond compare. And we mean it!

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