Senior Ruby on 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.

• 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.

• 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).