Senior Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails

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Requirements:

• Demonstrated prior experience leading feature development and shipping software in a professional team setting.
• Strong project management skills and familiarity with project management software such as JIRA.
• 8+ years of experience working with Ruby on Rails.
• Ability to create well-architected, readable code following best practices.
• Deep knowledge of the standard Ruby library and experience upgrading RoR between major versions.
• 4+ years of experience using ReactJS or a comparable frontend framework.
• Knowledge of responsive styling using CSS and preprocessors like SCSS and SASS.
• Experience with ElasticSearch, caching solutions like Memcached and Redis.
• Experience integrating with payment solutions such as Stripe, PayPal, and Dwolla.
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services including EC2, S3, RDS, and deployment best practices.
• Experience managing Linux servers and provisioning systems using Ansible.
• Experience monitoring and managing the WAF firewall and network optimization through Cloudflare.
• Experience creating small utilities through AWS lambda or Cloudflare workers.
• Ability to implement automated testing, particularly integration testing via Selenium / Capybara.
• Competency working with relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with mass email systems such as Sendgrid.
• Experience writing both client and server side JavaScript.

Responsibilities:

• Lead feature development while managing timelines and stakeholder expectations.
• Collaborate with designers and product developers to conceptualize and build new features end-to-end.
• Design, write, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby and JavaScript code.
• Establish processes to ensure maintainability of new code; upgrade old code via refactor and replacement.
• Write automated tests to ensure proper code coverage for new features.
• Plan, develop, upgrade, and maintain current and future infrastructure and frameworks.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues while coordinating with the Support team.
• Monitor system instrumentation to optimize performance.
• Investigate and implement new web development technologies and best practices.
• Identify any bottlenecks or bugs in the system and devise solutions.
• Coordinate with and mentor other team members.