Ruby on Rails Developer

NAVA Software solutions is looking for a Ruby on Rails Developer.

Details:


Ruby and Rails Developer


Location: 100% Remote


Duration: 12 months

Job Description:

A Software Engineer at Client works on the development team to build new features and maintain the Travelers Haven product. This role involves delivering high value cards and participating in design and ideation for new work. The ideal candidate loves development, is capable in our tech stack (particularly Ruby on Rails, Reactjs, Postgresql), and has a habit of constant learning.

• The candidate exhibits is highly collaborative in a team setting, whether diving into technical work or pairing with other team members regularly:We ship code daily to our production, staging, and continuous integration environments.
• Test results, deployments, and production monitoring results are posted to our chat channels.
• We combine Kanban with biweekly retrospectives and regular refinement sessions.
• We play to each team member's strengths while encouraging professional development in weaker areas. You'll use the skills you're best at the most but be expected to jump in anywhere as needed.
• We currently use Macs for development, but if you prefer Windows or Linux that's good too.
• We offer flexible, remote-friendly working arrangements and are a highly collaborative team. The right candidate wants to be a go-to resource for their areas of highest knowledge, share what they know, and learn from teammates.

Essential Functions

• Work with product to transform user stories (cards) into working product.
• Collaborate with other engineers to create features and pay down technical debt.
• Write clean code.
• Write tests that prove your code works.
• Proactively identify process and product improvements, collaborate with team on implementation.

Competency:

• Strong development skills.
• In-depth understanding of and practical experience with testing strategies.
• Strong computer science problem-solving ability. You must know how to write your own algorithms and go beyond the framework-built ins. Good written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Education & Experience:

• 3+ years of web development
• 2+ years production experience with our tech stack.
• A passion for giving users a polished, highly usable experience.
• Experience with high volume, publicly facing production site.
• Ruby on Rails
• Heroku and AWS
• Postgres/SQL
• RESTful APIs
• Sidekiq/RabbitMQ
• RSpec and TDD
• HTML/CSS/JS (AngularJS, ReactJS)