Software Engineer Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced software engineer to join our team as a Ruby on Rails developer. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and developing web applications using the latest version of Ruby on Rails, integrating external web services and APIs, ensuring database integrity and efficiency using MySQL, and contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle.
* Deploying, configuring, and managing applications and infrastructure on various AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, CloudWatch).
* Optimizing application performance, ensuring scalability, and troubleshooting issues in a cloud environment.
* Implementing and maintaining continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline.
* Writing and maintaining unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality and application functionality.
You will also contribute to the design and ongoing enhancements of our DevOps systems, resolve customer-reported issues with our existing technology, and have previous experience in the North American logistics industry as a plus.
Requirements and Skills
* Experience building and deploying commercial web applications.
* Proficiency in Ruby on Rails and at least one object-oriented web framework.
* Deep experience with JavaScript development and debugging.
* Strong background in relational database theory and SQL.
* Understanding of multi-threading, database contention, and object-oriented design.
* Experience with user-centered interaction design.
* Understanding of accounting principles.
* Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.