Senior System Engineer - Ruby on Rails

The Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities :

- Write well-documented and structured code on a daily basis to meet weekly software development goals.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business analysts, project managers and other engineers.

- Complete all assigned tasks in the ticketing system including new development and maintenance requests.

- Mentor junior team members by regularly reviewing and providing feedback on their code.

- Submit code for evaluation and feedback from Engineering team members through use of a version control tool.

- Consistently write unit and integration tests around code and maintain the company test suite.

- Develop a strong understanding of software development methodologies and styles that are most effective.

- Develop a strong understanding of the product code base in order to become more efficient and effective.

- Other job-related duties as assigned.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications :

- 6 years of professional experience in backend web application stack, preferably Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.

- Knowledge of version control tools such as git.

- Knowledge of test driven development, preferably using Rspec.

- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable web application.