Ruby Software Engineer

University of California, Irvine•Irvine, CA

4d•$79,200 - $105,000

About The Position

Founded in 1965, UC Irvine is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and is ranked among the nation’s top 10 public universities by U.S. News & World Report. The campus has produced five Nobel laureates and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot. Led by Chancellor Howard Gillman, UC Irvine has more than 36,000 students and offers 224 degree programs. It’s located in one of the world’s safest and most economically vibrant communities and is Orange County’s second-largest employer, contributing $7 billion annually to the local economy and $8 billion statewide. To learn more about UC Irvine, visit www.uci.edu. The Office of Information Technology (OIT) is responsible for supporting the IT needs of UC Irvine faculty, students, and staff. Our mission is to provide information technology leadership, services, and innovative solutions to promote the research, education, and community service goals of the University. The UC Recruit Development & Support team delivers innovative Ruby on Rails solutions for UC Irvine and the broader University of California system via Software as a Service delivery and other models. We are a small Agile team building and scaling Ruby on Rails applications to support recruitment, appointment, merit review, promotion, and other Academic Personnel processes. Your Role on the Team Under the general supervision of the Manager, UC Recruit Application Support, the Ruby Software Engineer applies skills as a seasoned, experienced software professional with a full understanding of industry practices, community standards and relevant policies and procedures to medium-sized projects or portions of large projects with moderate scope and complexity. Resolves a wide range of issues. Demonstrates competency in selecting tools, methods and techniques to obtain results. Develops new enhancements, framework component upgrades, and automated tests for applications running in a 24/7 load balanced production environment in AWS. Uses revision control, issue tracking, code review, and other tools that facilitate team development activities. Adheres to the full Agile Scrum development process including implementation of designs and business requirements, code review, quality assurance and deployment.

Requirements

Intermediate knowledge of secure software development.
Advanced skills associated with software design, modification, implementation and deployment, including object-oriented programming concepts using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Demonstrated ability to understand functional needs and how systems can support those needs. Demonstrated ability to develop conversion and system implementation plans.
Demonstrated ability to interface with management on a regular basis.
Demonstrated ability to understand customer needs and translate into user stories, acceptance criteria, and software design. Verifies delivered software meets customer needs.
Thorough experience with identification and use of code libraries and open-source tools that reduce maintenance or enable new functionality.
Experience with planning for deployment and creation of feedback mechanisms.
Demonstrated software repository skills using the Git version control system or similar. Demonstrated testing and test planning skills for developing code-driven automated tests such as unit, functional, and integration tests.
Thorough experience with common programming tools. Demonstrated ability to follow software specifications.
Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills.
Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical personnel at various levels in the organization.
Self-motivated and works independently and as part of a team. Able to learn effectively and meet deadlines.
Demonstrated broad problem-solving skills.
Ability to review code written by other developers and provide effective feedback. Experience receiving code review feedback.
Ability to mentor and provide effective development guidance to other software developers.
Ability to develop using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, XML, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other technologies.
Adhere to OIT’s cultural values: Collaboration, Respect, Trust, Transparency, Quality, Inclusiveness, Customer Centricity, and Learning and Growth.
Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training
in professional development using a modern framework.
of Ruby on Rails application development experience.
of MySQL, Postgres, or similar relational database.