Software Engineer II, Home Chef

• At least one year of experience shipping production code
• Have built and shipped at least one major feature in Ruby on Rails and/or React
• Up to one year of post-high school training such as in a business school, community college or vocational training
• Must be comfortable working with version control such as GitHub
• Must be well-versed in at least one professional code editor (Atom, Sublime, VS Code, Vim, etc.)
• Must be comfortable working with tools like Slack and GSuite
• Must be willing to respond to on-call events when they occur

Desirable

• Writing code to solve business problems and handle tickets:
• Utilizing Ruby on Rails framework, React/React Native, and of course vanilla Javascript and CSS. Hosting on Heroku, postgres database
• Can communicate about the trade-offs of various technical approaches and solutions
• Backend development, design and implementation; database (relational, NoSQL, caching), messaging and big data development, implementation and optimization
• Ship reliable, scalable, efficient code
• Mentoring other software engineers and pair programming; collaborating with others:
• Provides insight to junior engineers to guide their programming
• Influence the road map and product development of Home Chef tools
• Communicates and writes code clearly while pair programming
• Completes pull request reviews and providing feedback to team
• Participates in sprints, IPMs, Retros, and other meetings to help with product roadmap planning
• Interviewing potential software engineers:
• Asking thoughtful questions to candidates
• Assessing both technical ability and culture add to Home Chef
• Pair programming with candidatesProviding specific, timely feedback to the Home Chef team about candidate’s interview performance