Sr Ruby on Rails Developer

Title: Sr Ruby on Rails Developer

Location: Seattle, WA

Job Type: FTE/CTH

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Individual contributor, delivering high quality solutions that address business requirements. Your code is well factored, tested, performant, and easy to enhance.
• Conduct, manage, and enforce code reviews.
• Provide solutions to foundational and cross-team technical challenges.
• Conduct technical and feature risks assessments and communicate to the architecture and product management groups.
• Provide troubleshooting and root cause analysis for issues that are escalated by the team.
• Enhance team accomplishments and competence by planning the delivery of solutions; answering technical and procedural questions from less experienced team members; teaching improved processes; and mentoring team members.
• Documents important technical risks and decisions in the corporate wiki.
• Understands and influences the vision and overall strategy.
• Creates proper unit, integration and system level tests.
• Work with Architects to ensure proper solution based on the established architectural principles and patterns.
• Work with development teams in an agile context as it relates to software development, including test driven development, sprint planning, and meeting commitments.
• Continuously learning by tracking research regarding web design and usability; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; and participating in professional organizations.

Mandatory Skills & preferred Skills

• 10 plus years of experience as a technical lead, senior engineer, or solutions architect on enterprise programs  6.
• 5 plus years developing applications using Ruby on Rails.
• 5 plus years of experience developing client-side JavaScript using JQuery.
• Experience with current JavaScript frameworks, such as React.
• Deep understanding of HTML5, CSS, and Bootstrap.
• Deeply knowledgeable about: Object Oriented Programming, concurrency, enterprise design patterns, RESTful Web service implementation, Service Oriented Architecture, Test-Driven Development.
• 10 plus years of experience with relational databases, especially SQL Server. Experienced with data modeling and SQL queries.
• Experience with automated continuous integration and deployment tools, especially Atlassian Bamboo.
• Deep understanding of HTTP and Web development.
• Deep understanding of distributed and multi-tier system design and development
• Proficient in the use of Rails and JavaScript tooling, e.g. RSpec, Rake, Bundler, as well as npm, bower, and Jasmine.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Agile or Lean Software Development experience such as Kanban, Scrum, Test-Driven Development, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies.

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