Senior Ruby Backend Engineer, Skilllab

• You have 5 to 8 years of web development experience in Ruby on Rails
• You can demonstrate problem solving and debugging skills
• You have experience with testing via minitest, webmock and/or similar tools
• You have experience with PostgreSQL and optimizing database queries
• You have a strong understanding of git based version control, project management tools such as Jira and Agile software development practices
• You are comfortable taking the lead on architecting and planning development for major features. Furthermore, you are enthusiastic to support and mentor others

Desirable

• You will apply your experience in developing the backend components of a large and growing software platform based on Ruby on Rails exposing a JSON API for a React front-end
• You will write code for new and existing features and components in close collaboration with our developers, UX, QA, Ops and PM teams
• You will create, extend and optimize features in a Ruby on Rails application backed by PostgreSQL, Redis and Solr
• You will experience the culture of a technology start-up and work in an international environment with SkillLabers from +28 countries
• You will familiarize yourself with the business and product requirements by reviewing, giving feedback and contributing to the product requirements for your features
• You will write technical documentation that can be easily understood by others
• You will write RoR code that meets high-quality technical standards and needs minimal improvements after QA (Quality Assurance) processes
• You will triage error reports, debug and optimize existing features while finding opportunities to improve scaling, database performance and balancing modularity/code-reuse
• You will provide code reviews to support other developers to improve their code while providing assistance and direction