Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

The Candidate & Responsibilities

• Ability to understand and influence the vision of program strategy
• Plan information architecture by studying the business concept, strategy, and target market; envisioning architectural scheme, information structure and features, functionality, preparing data models; designing information structure, work-and dataflow, and navigation; evaluating information representation
• Design and develop a solution strategy that supports productivity, maintainability, interoperability, and product growth
• Prevent the decision process from stalling by ensuring solution level issues are addressed promptly
• Conduct, manage and enforce code reviews
• Conduct technical and feature risks assessments and communicate to the architecture and product management groups
• Educate and enforce clean code that follows the main programming principles
• Enforce Proper Unit, Integration, System, Performance level Tests, Code Coverage, and Static / Dynamic Code Quality Metrics
• Work with the wider tech team to ensure proper solutions based on the established architectural principles and patterns
• Mentor and guide technical resources within the team
• Leverage open source and other technologies and languages outside of the framework should the need arise and autonomously be able to make use of those technologies
• Develop cutting edge solutions to maximize the performance, scalability, and distributed processing capabilities of the system
• Provide troubleshooting and root cause analysis for issues that are escalated by the team
• Enhances information architecture team accomplishments and competence by planning delivery of solutions; answering technical and procedural questions for less experienced team members; teaching improved processes; mentoring team members
• Follow best practices (test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring, code standards)

Experience

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related subject OR equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of application development experience with RoR and other OO based programming languages
• Minimum 5 years experience in application design and development with infrastructure management experience, specifically building and maintaining a multi-tenanted, microservice-based architecture
• SDK and API design and maintenance)
• DevOps in an agile environment, AWS, and Docker. Experience with Ansible or other automation tools is a plus
• Software development experience including design patterns, RESTful service implementation, Service Oriented Architecture, Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Testing, Transact-SQL, relational databases, and PostgreSQL
• Database Management, Data Modeling, Presenting Technical Information, Problem Solving, Strategic Planning, Data Maintenance, Verbal Communication
• Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as Emberjs, JavaScript, HTML, CSS & Jquery
• Experience developing highly interactive applications
• A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design
• Multi-tier application design and development