Remote Principal Ruby on Rails Developer

Company: Interactive Resources - iR
Location: Austin
Posted on: June 23, 2022

Job Description:

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to work on advanced projects on our flagship Ruby/RoR application. You will be responsible for the development and refinement of new features across our product line. Your primary focus will be to work directly with the product management team to conceive, develop, and refine our core web applications and deliver outstanding experiences and value to our customers. You will work in an iterative, data driven environment to refine the application. Your leadership skills will be important in mentoring junior teammates, leading a team and conducting rigorous code reviews across the teams you work with. A strong commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and the creation of quality products is essential. Your customer-centric focus is critical for our and our customers' success.Our Engineering team is extraordinary. We're a hardworking and focused team driven to deliver industry-leading apps to our service professional customers. Our success is their success. Our team of entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and client-focused team members are the "engine room", helping our customers operate and grow their businesses.What you'll be doing

• Design, develop and deploy features for core Ruby/RoR applications
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
• Work with product management to refine initial concepts features that deliver customer delight
• Build and execute a high velocity of smart, highly performant server side A/B tests to increase business metrics
• Understand clear sub-system boundaries, and make recommendations on where functionality belongs across different sub-systems
• Stay up to date with new Growth and Personalization tools
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• Develop and maintain code quality standards and enforce them across the team
• Continually introduce architectural improvements and refactorings to the code baseline
• Write automated tests at the appropriate architectural level
• Conduct code reviews and architectural reviews for features developed by other members of the team
• Lead feature teams in their weekly iterations
• Maintain and improve our continuous integration and development environmentsCore qualifications
  • Ability to work at a fast pace with a drive to quickly deliver value to our customers
  • BS, MS or Ph.D in a computer science / computer engineering program
  • 4 - 10 years industry experience developing commercial Ruby/RoR applications
  • 2 - 4 years experience leading teams and performing code reviews
  • Advanced knowledge of Ruby/RoR
  • Strong architectural ability within Ruby/RoR
  • Can communicate and work independently with non-technical stakeholders to see through large epics
  • Data Driven
  • Depth of understanding and teaching ability in clean code, refactoring, and test-driven development
  • Familiarity with ReSTful APIs used to connect our Android, iOS, and Javascript applications to the web application
  • Strong understanding of underlying systems architecture
  • Independently gain knowledge and opinions on multiple systems
  • Researches and assesses current and new technologies
  • Experience with performance and memory tuning with tools
  • Proficient understanding of Git
  • Strong proficiency with continuous integration/continuous deployment
  • Experience with Kotlin a plus
  • Experience with Swift a plus
  • Experience with Javascript/React a plus
  • Experience with MaterialUI a plus

Keywords: Interactive Resources - iR, Austin , Remote Principal Ruby on Rails Developer, IT / Software / Systems , Austin, Texas