Senior Back-End Engineer

Roberts Recruiting•Boston, MA

14h•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a talented Ruby on Rails developer with 5+ years of web application development experience to join our successful, growing, and well-funded startup in Boston. We know you’re out there and want to be part of something meaningful! We are a contract storage and analytics cloud platform that, powered by machine learning and protected by enterprise-level security, makes searching and reporting on contracts much easier. You can store all your agreements in our secure cloud, search the full text of all your documents, and instantly run and share reports with your team. Three years ago we had just one client; now we have over 100 and are continuously exceeding our revenue goals due to the value proposition of our offerings. As a constantly growing and evolving team, we are always looking for new talent to take our technology to the next level. We are looking for smart, friendly, and dedicated engineers to help build new features and products. As a company, we're customer- and sales-driven in every technical decision we make; the focus on customer delight is baked into our culture. We need someone with the enthusiasm and creativity to make bold moves and ultimately help shape our company. You would report to the VP of Engineering and work alongside the engineers to evolve the platform as well as engineering processes and standards. We need a person who approaches their job with energy and pride. And, we bet you need to be a part of a company that values its employees and holds them to high standards. All of our people are team players in the true sense of the word, have excellent troubleshooting and communication skills and have the ability to prioritize and reprioritize appropriately.

Requirements

Proficiency in Ruby (we use 2.4+) and Ruby on Rails (we use 5.1+) with a good understanding of tried-and-tested design patterns
A solid grasp of relational database technologies (we use PostgreSQL)
Extensive experience with: Full-stack, high-scale applications with distinct front-end and back-end layers; the interactions between them
Extensive experience with: AWS or other large cloud infrastructure-as-a-service
Extensive experience with: API creation and consumption, specifically for integrations
Extensive experience with: Testing (we use Rspec)
Extensive experience with: Authorization and authentication (i.e. JWT, OAuth, SAML)
Extensive experience with: Web app resource management (i.e. memory usage, server processes)
Extensive experience with: Web application security (i.e. SQL injection, CSRF, XSS)
Familiarity with devops concepts such as: Logging
Familiarity with devops concepts such as: Cloud resource management
Familiarity with devops concepts such as: Encryption
Familiarity with devops concepts such as: Connection pools
Familiarity with devops concepts such as: Sharding
Self-motivated and a team player.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
A passion for building high-quality products.

Nice To Haves

Experience with search technologies (we use Elasticsearch) is a plus.

Responsibilities

Architect, develop, and maintain enhancements to our constantly-evolving, cloud-based contract analytics platform and ensure it scales properly with our growing customer base.
Collaborate with product managers as well as front-end engineers in a high-speed, agile environment.
Set, maintain, and enforce back-end technology standards for the engineering team.