Senior Ruby On Rails Developer (Remote)

• Translate business requirements into specifications and detailed designs
• Develop, build, test, and support Cheetah Loyalty server components, such as APIs, database and business logic, and web-based UIs
• Ensure unit and automated tests are in place
• Integrate with third-party solutions and APIs
• Perform benchmarks and tuning for high throughput
• Deliver technical documentation for by customers and partners
• Work closely with PM, QA, SRE and customer success teams
• Participate in regular code reviews, often in a mentorship role
• Make recommendations to refine and improve our engineering practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field
• 7+ years experience in software engineering
• 4+ Ruby on Rails proficiency in a scaled production environment
• Advanced relational DB experience with MySQL (or similar RDBMS)
• Experience with NoSQL solutions like Redis
• Experience in building RESTful APIs
• Experience with any JavaScript libraries (JQuery, React, Vue, Angular)
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
• Experience in unit testing (RSpec)
• Knowledge of software development methodology, patterns and best practices
• Experience in driving projects, reviewing code and mentoring junior developers
• Have gone through performance challenges of a production application
• Have an understanding of scalability bottlenecks in Rails applications
• Experience in messaging queues, background jobs and/or event streaming framework (Kafka/Resque/Sidekiq)

Nice to have

• Experience with other programming languages like Java and/or Groovy
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, AWS, and cloud infra e.g. Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Hadoop components such as HBase, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Storm
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data stores, data modeling, indexing and associated trade-offs
• Strong industry experience in architecture and development of scalable production quality backend systems

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field
• 7+ years experience in software engineering
• 4+ Ruby on Rails proficiency in a scaled production environment
• Advanced relational DB experience with MySQL (or similar RDBMS)
• Experience with NoSQL solutions like Redis
• Experience in building RESTful APIs
• Experience with any JavaScript libraries (JQuery, React, Vue, Angular)
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
• Experience in unit testing (RSpec)
• Knowledge of software development methodology, patterns and best practices
• Experience in driving projects, reviewing code and mentoring junior developers
• Have gone through performance challenges of a production application
• Have an understanding of scalability bottlenecks in Rails applications
• Experience in messaging queues, background jobs and/or event streaming framework (Kafka/Resque/Sidekiq)

Nice to have

• Experience with other programming languages like Java and/or Groovy
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, AWS, and cloud infra e.g. Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with Hadoop components such as HBase, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Storm
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data stores, data modeling, indexing and associated trade-offs
• Strong industry experience in architecture and development of scalable production quality backend systems