Senior Ruby on Rails Developer at Jobot
Redwood City, CA 94063
About the Job
Senior Rails Developer Needed / $140k-160k, Remote / College Social Media Platform
This Jobot Job is hosted by: Michael Oktay
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and sending us your resume.
Salary: $140,000 - $160,000 per year
A bit about us:
Based in Redwood City, CA, we are a remote first, social media application development company working to allow future college students to better connect in community!
Why join us?
Job Details
Responsibilities
Requirements:
Nice to Haves:
Interested in hearing more? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Quick Apply" button.
This Jobot Job is hosted by: Michael Oktay
Are you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Quick Apply" button
and sending us your resume.
Salary: $140,000 - $160,000 per year
A bit about us:
Based in Redwood City, CA, we are a remote first, social media application development company working to allow future college students to better connect in community!
Why join us?
- 100% remote: We were doing it before it was cool. We are a fully distributed company with employees all around the world
- Small company: ~30 employees, your voice really matters and you can make a big impact on the company, our products and lives of customers and users
- Stable: We’re a profitable start-up
- Very Little Corporate Rigidity: We don’t care much for formality or rules as long as the work gets done
- Work/Life Balance: We take personal/play time very seriously
- Flexibility: Unlimited vacation, no explicitly set work hours (depends on where you live and what works for you)
- 3 weeks total of company-wide vacation including all major holidays and your birthday
- Passion: Work for a company where everyone loves to be here and truly cares about the products, our customers and our vision
- Doing Good: Work on products that have a direct positive impact on young people’s lives
Job Details
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
- Integration of data storage solutions
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end (our design team might be better here) developers with server side logic
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
- Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization
- Basic testing for core features
Requirements:
- 10 years of experience working in full stack development
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as Active Admin, Devise, RSpec, Sidekiq, Elasticsearch, Redis, SQS.
- Expert understanding of the syntax of Ruby
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming - and design patterns
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages
- SQL (postgresql, index tuning, Redshift)
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies (react/js/html/erb/css)
- Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful
- Familiarity with integrating 3rd party APIs with and without Gems
- A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code with and without lint checks
- Proficient in Linux/Unix/Mac/Bash
- Understanding of common hosting and SaaS services (AWS: SQS, S3, RDS)
- Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Understanding of fundamental design principles and design patterns behind a scalable application
- Ability to work unsupervised in a remote environment, quickly
- Ability to hit the ground running with little hand-holding
- Ability to parse very non-technical specs and turn them into features
- Ability to critically think about requests architecturally and respond with better options when needed
- Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
- Familiarity with continuous integration
Nice to Haves:
- Elasticsearch
- GQL
- Basic bash/ruby-scripting
- Docker
- A basic understanding of parallel processing
- A basic understanding of iOS development
- A basic understanding of Android development
- Machine Learning
Interested in hearing more? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Quick Apply" button.
Salary
140,000 - 160,000 /year