Senior Software Engineer (Rails/Ruby)
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- Level
- Senior
- Apply from
- Canada
About the role
- Write high-quality, well-tested code
- Maintain production reliability and usage
- Design, code, and integrate new features
- Participate in code reviews and planning
- Collaborate with product and design teams
Skills the posting asks for
- Ruby on Rails
- ReactJS
- JavaScript
- PostgreSQL
- Sidekiq
Summarised from the employer’s posting, which is reproduced in full below.
The employer’s full posting
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Rails/Ruby)
Location: Toronto, ON (4 days hybrid)
Contract: Long Term
What will you do?
• Write high-quality, well-tested code while understanding business needs
• Maintain and ensure high quality software, with accountability for production reliability and usage
• Effectively contribute suggestions and new ideas to improve our platform.
• Designing, coding, unit testing and integrating new features and functionality as defined by the PO and team
• Participating in code reviews, architectural planning, and delivery meetings
• Updating progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) or Kanban board
What do you need to succeed?
Must-Have:
• 5+ years of experience and a solid understanding of Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Redis
• Deep experience with databases and data structures (MySQL or Postgres)
• Experience in Unit/Integration testing
• Experience in WCAG or Accessibility
• Experience with ReactJS, Webpack, jQuery/JavaScript/HTML
• Participate in code reviews, architectural planning, and delivery meetings
• You’re a team player, and enjoy collaborating with the product, design, and engineering teams to solve problems
• You learn new concepts quickly (industry, business, and technical)
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You care deeply about application security and understand the importance of protecting sensitive user data
Nice to Have:
• Post-secondary degree or diploma in computer engineering or equivalent training/experience
• Experience with compliance standards, e.g. ISO 27001 or SOC 2
• Experience building apps in a cloud environment (i.e. Docker/Kubernetes)
• Deploying to cloud Infrastructure: AWS (various services), familiarity with Terraform
• Experience with Rust
• DevOps tools such as Docker, Github, CircleCI
• Monitoring and logging tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, Sumo Logic, Splunk
• Familiarity with Open API specification