Senior Web Developer - Ruby on Rails
We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Web Dev - RoR to drive our web development initiatives.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing and developing scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails, integrating external web services and APIs, ensuring database integrity and efficiency using MySQL, contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle, deploying, configuring, and managing applications and infrastructure on various AWS services.
The successful candidate will also be responsible for optimizing application performance, ensuring scalability, and troubleshooting issues in a cloud environment. Additionally, they will implement and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline.
Key Responsibilities:
* Design and develop complex web applications using Ruby on Rails
* Integrate multiple external web services and APIs
* Ensure optimal database integrity and efficiency using MySQL
* Contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle
* Deploying, configuring, and managing applications and infrastructure on various AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, CloudWatch)
Requirements and Skills:
* Proven track record of building and deploying commercial web applications
* Expertise in Ruby on Rails and at least one object-oriented web framework
* Deep understanding of 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
* Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows
Bonus Points:
* Knowledge of Agile methodologies
* Experience with cloud-based collaboration tools
* Understanding of security best practices