Software Engineer

Reporting to the Lead Development Engineer and working within an experienced and collaborative development team, you will be tasked with building performant, scalable, and sustainable backend application architecture and software.

Your responsibilities will include:

Working with the technology team in the adoption and maintenance of modern (agile) software engineering practices Building technical integrations with third-party vendors Supporting critical technology incidents as needed Working in technology architecture, scalability, security, and performance initiatives Delivering high-quality hands-on engineering work in line with the companies commercial objectives Mentoring other platform engineers and team members Tracking and driving to completion all of the platform focus group's deliverables Working within defined project management guidelines and security best practice Contributing technology inputs to the product team and roadmap discussions Be the champion in delivering scalable, robust, commercially viable technology outcomes for the company and become a cultural change agent within the technology group to focus on engineering best-in-breed, commercially viable technology outcomes for the business. Minimum 5 year’s industry experience with Ruby on Rails development deploying scalable Rails API & applications 5+ Experienced in any Web Development fields Identifying bottlenecks, optimizing and profiling web applications using NewRelic and related tools Develop and maintain specs using Rspec, Jest, and e2e preferably Cypress Experience in creating APIs Good understanding of pair programming and in pair code reviews Working proficiently in relational databases Have worked in teams of 3 or more developers Experience and understanding of CI/CD tools such as CircleCI Experience deploying scalable cloud solutions on AWS Experience working within Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban) Basic experience working with frontend frameworks such as Vuejs. Devops skills a bonus

Your attributes:

Confident and autonomous You write performant, scalable, efficient code You take pride in your work You have good (written/verbal) communication skills and contribute regularly to architectural and team discussions You aren’t afraid of making and learning from mistakes You share and communicate your knowledge with the team TDD and BDD by default Some knowledge/interest in other technologies we use, Vuejs, React native, serverless