Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer — Scale APIs & Performance

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A national catering marketplace in Boston is seeking a web developer with 4-6+ years of experience. You'll enhance products, integrate APIs, and improve performance. The ideal candidate has strong skills in Ruby on Rails or Python, JavaScript, and SQL. Competitive compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of hands-on web development experience.
• Strong working knowledge of JavaScript and jQuery.
• Solid SQL / relational database experience.

Responsibilities

• Evolve products based on an ever-growing backlog.
• Expose functionality via Restful API and integrate with 3rd party APIs.
• Improve performance and evolve user experience based on analytics.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Python

JavaScript

jQuery

SQL

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Senior/Principal SW Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

#1 online -and the only nationwide - marketplace for business catering in the United States – a $21 billion market. Our 850K+ on-time ratings and reviews, our 51K+ caterers and restaurants, and our 5-star customer service make it superbly easy for business people to find and order great food for their meetings. We’re backed by Insight Venture Partners and Iconiq Capital, we’re on a path to $1B in 2019, and we’ll get there - even more surely if you come help us.

We’re always looking forhighly skilled full stack engineers to helpexecute our technology goals while riding this rocket ship of growth.

You have:

• 4-6+ years of hands-on web development experiencein a professional setting, ideally usingRuby on Rails or Python
• Solid SQL / relational database experience (Postgres is a plus but not required).
• A strong appetite for learning (new frameworks, new languages, etc).
• A disposition that is friendly, flexible, and pragmatic.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)

What you’ll do:

• Burnthrough an ever growing backlog of requests to evolve our products (desktop & mobile).
• Expose functionality via our Restful API and integrate with 3rd party APIs.
• Improve performance at every chance you get (we believe speed itself is a feature).
• Evolve the user experience based on A / B test results, Google Analytics data, and customer feedback.