Ruby on Rails developer in San Francisco, CA (Remote opportu...

Our client is looking for a motivated and passionate software crafts person to help in create, extend, and maintain the core of their software platform as they expand past their current offerings in services related to energy and convenience in order to take their business to the next level.

• Role: Ruby on Rails developer
• Location: SFO, CA – fully remote.
• Duration: 3 months CTH

• Citizens preferred, GC okay.

Notes:

app team – they don’t have a leader. need to level up.

patterns created, buggy code,

wants someone who can mentor, love Ruby, debug Ruby, own the design and build the APIs – do code reviews

make sure developers are on track. people manager and developer

create apps from scratch.

2 week sprints. work with product. be voice for engineering. be able to push back on product.

lead and code, hands on.

30% development - 50% leading – 20% PM – guiding through Sprints, SDLC

betterment of the team.

Github, stack or overflow. love open source.

10+ years for Ruby

3-5 years of experience as lead.

peer programming.

building APIs, architecture, working with their customers, new customers and legacy code base.

more about leading the team. peer programming. learning sessions, white board sessions with the team.

What You'll be Doing

• Design, document, build, and maintain performant APIs in Ruby on Rails that underpin our products and are consumed by 3rd party developers
• Nurture a high performance small team by helping our developers through pairing and code reviews, and sometimes holding learning sessions in the team
• Give and receive constructive feedbacks
• Work with UX designers and frontend engineers, so we can provide them with excellent foundations for them to build world-class products
• Make technical judgement calls to balance time we invest and values we intend to bring to the world, while keeping our code base sustainable, and reduce surprises
• Constantly improve our development practices

About You

• Extensive experience working with gems in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem (e.g. Devise, Pundit, etc.).
• A dedication to automated testing, push-button deployment, and configuration management through IT automation.
• Experience building large-scale production web applications with API interfaces.
• A willingness to jump in and experiment with new technologies, and to get out of your comfort zone.
• Have created a web application from scratch for a production use and maintained it
• Have gone through performance challenges of a production RoR web application (e.g. stress testing and performance tuning)
• Have implemented something in Ruby outside RoR framework and popular Ruby libraries (e.g. a Ruby gem, a DSL)
• Have good understandings of multiple kinds of tests, and use some of them in your daily development activities
• Have experiences with asynchronous jobs and/or data pipelines
• Have contributed to open source communities
• Have understanding why RoR is designed in the current way, and how it has influenced other web frameworks
• Have understanding of what makes RoR possible
• Have knowledge of other web application frameworks
• Have good understanding of various project management methodologies, and when to use them
• Care about your craft that brings values to users, and understand why before working on a project
• Have influenced other developers through PR reviews and pair-programming
• Have given talks at meetups/conferences and/or written articles/books in tech
• Critically examine your thinking and ideas on a regular basis, and you are open to constructive criticism
• You try to articulate your points in discussions and in your code
• Can work with and help product managers to maximize the values we deliver as a unit
• Have a desire to own a product or a service

Bonus Points

• Have sunset a web application in production
• Have designed and documented APIs that are consumed by multiple users excluding yourself
• Have played a technical lead role of a team and pushed the bar of the team continuously and collaboratively
• Specific experience with real-world DNS and/or email authentication standards is a plus.
• Have a genuine interest in for the mission of enhancing our zero-trust approach to email sender identity.
• Ability to work effectively at all levels of the stack rails, Ruby, JavaScript ES6 and/or React.
• Experience building, provisioning, and deploying services in the cloud in an automated fashion.

If interested, please respond with your updated resume to Jay.sankar(at)comtecinfo.com or can reach me @ 972-666-5061.

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