Senior Ruby Consultant
Boston, MA - Remote

We are adding senior talent to our engineering team in Boston with remote flexibility. We have a rich software stack with which we solve a wide range of challenges such as embedded custom hardware and firmware, mobile-first user experience, analytics, and scalable real-time scheduling.

Our technology

• Microservice architecture using RabbitMQ for internal communication, with services mainly written on Ruby
• Responsive client applications built on ReactJS, Redux, and TypeScript
• CMS using Drupal
• Modern continuous integration and deployment, using technologies including Concourse, Docker, and BOSH
• Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Cassandra, Apache Spark, machine learning, to make informed business decisions

 
What you’ll do

• Design, implement, deliver, and maintain applications and features for platform members, customer support, and administrators
• Work closely with product designers, product managers and quality engineers to turn requirements and design documents into elegant code and delightful user experience
• Use modern tooling for iterative and rapid development, integrated testing, and high performance
• Mentor junior engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, conduct insightful code reviews

 
About you

• Ability to balance aggressive delivery schedules with maintainable quality code
• Require minimal supervision and can help a team drive a project to completion 

• Own changes to be made from definition to support in production
• Experience with various software lifecycle tools such as Git and JIRA
• Have experience with TDD or TAD (Test Accompanied Development), developer-written automated testing and all things that lead to confidence in our code in a Continuous Delivery infrastructure.
• 5+ years of experience in Ruby
  • Understanding of microservice architectures and messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ), REST and other concepts in API architecture
  • Service-oriented architectures and messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ)
  • Databases (relational and document)Functional, unit, and integration testing
  • Some HTML, CSS, Javascript, React JS framework preferred, ECMAScript 6+, and modern tooling such as Grunt, Gulp, NPM, Yarn, SASS, LESS, PostCSS, etc.
  • Databases (relational and document)
  • Instrumentation of an app or service for alerting and monitoring (New Relic)
  • Functional, unit, integration and performance testing
• Shipped robust, high-performance, high-scalability applications to production
• Experience with a 24/7 production environment