Senior Web Developer

Shaker Recruitment Marketing • Oak Park, IL

2d

About The Position

In this role as a Senior Web Developer, you will play a crucial role in developing applications that provide large employers with programmatic job distribution. This role involves collaborating with a team of developers to design, build, and deploy features that significantly impact customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in Ruby on Rails development.
• Proficient with shared libraries such as RSpec and Sidekiq.
• Solid understanding of Ruby syntax and its nuances.
• Deep expertise in the Bootstrap framework, HTML, PHP, SASS/LESS, GULP
• Deep experience writing modular and object-oriented code
• Firm grasp of object-oriented programming.
• Familiarity with MVC frameworks, ORM, and RESTful APIs.
• Skilled in writing clean, maintainable Ruby code.
• Experience with tools like Yarn, Bundler, and Rake.
• Capable of integrating diverse data sources and databases into seamless applications.
• Understanding of scalable application design fundamentals.
• Proficient in automated testing and unit tests.
• Experienced with code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Deep experience with JavaScript.
• Excellent communication skills with strong attention to detail.
• Experience in managing end-to-end project ownership.
• Ability to work on a small team in a fast-paced environment.
• Occasional on-call availability for nights and weekends.
• A high level of technical acumen and ability to troubleshoot technical issues to resolution.
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in custom WordPress development and best practices (Gutenberg, ACF, custom templates).
• Experience in PHP and knowledge of the Laravel framework.
• Knowledgeable in GA4 and setting up custom events and reports.
• Experience with Bitbucket is considered a significant asset.
• Ability to write custom scripts that ingest XML/JSON data and stores it in a database and/or API.
• Experience creating XML/JSON feeds and custom APIs.
• Deep experience with APIs, Google Cloud Talent Solutions experience is a plus (or other Google APIs).
• Experience with SSO, other types of authentications, GitHub, & MySQL Databases (Plesk server experience is a plus).
• Experience in Sketch and Invision.
• Experience leading a team of developers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Implement data storage solutions using various databases and storage systems
• Improve and maintain the performance and quality of applications.
• Contribute to all phases of the web development lifecycle
• Software development/maintenance - coding, documentation, system testing, etc.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure code quality, organization, and automatization are upheld.
• Engage in code reviews and uphold best practices in software development.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for review.
• Code review other team members' code, support and teach other team members
• Maintain and debug issues as they arise; identify and resolve programming bottlenecks.

Benefits

• competitive pay
• health and financial benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior