Ruby on Rails Developer

ACA Group•Durham, NC

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Product Engineer who will design, build, test, and maintain the Ethos ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) platform on our development team. Ethos aggregates data from hundreds of sources and uses our algorithms to create ratings and analyses of 15,000+ companies, funds, and client portfolios. We use our data, ratings, and analyses to serve firms on both impact and sustainability-related services.

Requirements

3+ years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
Proficiency with SQL.
Hands-on experience deploying and maintaining applications on AWS (ECS, EC2, RDS, S3).
Solid understanding of RESTful API design and development.
Experience writing automated tests (RSpec or similar).
Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and integration with Rails views or API consumers.
Proficiency with Git and experience working in a collaborative pull-request workflow.
Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a distributed team spanning multiple time zones.

Nice To Haves

Experience with background job processing (Sidekiq, Delayed Job, or similar).
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes).
Experience with caching strategies (Redis, Memcached).
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Typescript).
Experience with observability and monitoring tools (New Relic especially).
Strong proficiency with PostgreSQL — schema design, indexing, query optimization, and ActiveRecord.
Experience working within an Agile software dev lifecycle using JIRA/Confluence

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain robust Ruby on Rails applications with a focus on performance and scalability.
Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code following team conventions and best practices.
Build and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate with third-party services.
Design and optimize PostgreSQL database schemas, queries, and migrations.
Deploy and monitor applications on AWS infrastructure (ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.).
Participate in code reviews and contribute to architectural discussions.
Debug and resolve production issues with a sense of urgency and ownership. This will often include working closely with our QA engineers/product team to identify and resolve problems quickly.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and advocate for engineering best practices.
Mentor junior team members and share knowledge across the team.