Sr. Software Engineer (RoR)

RathRecruiting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

RathRecruiting is seeking an experienced full-stack engineer passionate about customer experience and best software practices. The role encompasses developing scalable backend services, crafting engaging user-facing features, and building robust APIs.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in software development, including 2+ years in the RoR ecosystem and knowledge of AWS. The position fosters a DevOps culture and aims to provide exceptional user experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development.
• 2+ years specifically in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem.
• Solid grounding in computer science and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable backend services.
• Build internal and developer APIs.
• Create engaging user experiences with front-end development.
• Continuously deploy and work within a DevOps culture.

Skills

Ruby on Rails (RoR)

REST API development

Caching

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Database management (MongoDB, PostgreSQL)

DevOps practices

HTML5 & HAML

CSS/CSS3 and SASS

Git & GitHub

Computer Science fundamentals

Education

BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar

Tools

RSpec

Selenium

Capybara

Backbone

Marionette

Job description

We are looking for a full-stack engineer who is obsessed with delivering the best possible customer experience, values software engineering practices, and never forgets about scalability and reusability when designing code.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Always innovating
• Developing scalable backend services in key focus areas such as consumer services, payments, data processing and analytics
• Building out internal and developer APIs, working with third party APIs
• Developing new user-facing features for our incredibly engaged customer base
• Developing our infrastructure with a DevOps culture
• Working with the entire tech team to provide a consistent, fast, and delightful experience to our customers and partners
• Caching like a pro
• Continuously deploying
• Creating mind-blowing user experiences with front-end development
• Exciting back-end development
• Scaling servers vertically and horizontally
• Solving the hardest and most complicated problems

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with 2+ years in the RoR ecosystem
• You have experience building restful RoR services
• Experience with large scale relational and non-relational databases such as MongoDB, Hadoop, PostgreSQL
• Good experience in REST API development
• Understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and experience with the associated tools/frameworks e.g., RSpec, Selenium, Capybara
• Caching skills and experience
• You have experience with Amazon Web Services technologies such as EC2, RDS, and S3
• You have a solid grounding in computer science, you understand the efficiency of the code you write in terms of time and space, and you put thought into your choice of algorithms, data structures, and db schemas
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar
• Experience with CSS/CSS3 and SASS
• Experience with HTML5 & HAML
• Working knowledge of Backbone & Marionette
• Working with Git & GitHub

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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