Ruby on Rails Developer – 100% Remote

Description Ruby on Rails Developer – 100% Remote

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for design and development to support company applications, integrations, and acts as a subject matter expert in the development of software with high code quality. The Software Engineer works on a wide scope of tasks including production support, feature requests, and application integrations while collaborating successfully with business and other IT resources.

Essential Functions

• Develops software elements for company applications using defined best practices and standards
• Creates and performs comprehensive unit tests
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Actively contributes to directing efforts of the development teams, including internal and external team members
• Performs root cause analysis for reported system issues
• Adheres to and participates in the code review process
• Completes work by projected deadlines while adhering to defined software development life cycle (SDLC) standards and processes
• Collaborates with IT Application Development team to devise technical solutions to meet business needs
• Adaptable to learn new and emerging technologies
• Objectively reviews and recommends software products to support integration and buy -vs build
• Supports vendor implementation projects if integration is required with existing applications
• Provides support in creation of departmental standards and diagrams
• Performs other duties as requested

Job Requirements

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required or, in lieu of degree, prior relevant work experience
• Minimum of 5 years experience as a software engineer
• Minimum of 3 years experience in modern web application frameworks
• Cloud Application Experience is a plus
• Service-based architecture (like Lambda) is a plus

Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills required
• Excellent knowledge of source code repository best practices
• Demonstrated abilities in modern development languages and platforms (IE; Ruby, Rails, node.js, Angular, etc)
• Demonstrated ability to manage simultaneous projects required
• Ability to work as a team member
• High proficiency in software engineering tools