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
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