Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails

PDQ

107d

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be crucial to developing and maintaining our product, SimpleMDM. As a member of the engineering team, you will have various responsibilities, including implementing new functionality, eliminating bugs, maintaining our code, and growing as an engineer. You will be involved across the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring and supporting critical systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in CS, a related degree, or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of Ruby on Rails, MySQL, React
• Strong understanding of macOS and Unix fundamentals
• 6+ years of experience working on a variety of software development projects, personal or professional
• 4+ years of experience developing complex Ruby on Rails applications
• Experience building / consuming APIs and services using REST, etc.
• Knowledge of Git and Git flow version control
• Defensive security strategies for both client and server-side web systems
• Strong ability to create architecture diagrams, specifications, and other analyses from user requirements
• Experience with containerization creation, use, and deployment strategies
• Expert debugging skills and pragmatic design experience
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
• Ability to read code and ask questions to quickly understand an unfamiliar codebase
• Ability to understand a problem space and make code changes safely
• Agile development experience

Nice To Haves

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, TypeScript and React
• Previous experience with Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM) or a background in IT
• Ability to work with, modify, and improve CI/CD automation technologies like GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and performance tuning
• Experience engaging with open source projects and communities

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software
• Work across the entire technology stack, from code to infrastructure
• Collaborate with team to deliver on project priorities within deadlines
• Work with customers and team members on technical issues including software outages, security risks, maintenance, deployment, customer support tickets
• Collaborate with UX designers to improve the fit-for-purpose of products
• Mentor other software engineers
• Refine development deployment pipelines, deployments, and processes to ensure reliability and efficiency
• Learn other programming languages and frameworks as needed for project research
• Identify, examine, demonstrate, and teach new technologies to the rest of the department
• Conduct independent research or prototype efforts with little oversight
• Work with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools as necessary for building current project work

Benefits

• 4-Day Work Week
• Equity
• Managers who champion professional development
• 100% Premium Coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• 100% Premium Coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
• Company Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy that treats you like the adult that you are
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives
• Quarterly Company Values Award (team member nominated)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees