Job Description

LRW is an innovative, fast-growing market research firm with an entrepreneurial culture. Globally recognized for work with top brands and consultative deliverables, LRW delivers more than data to drive strategic change. This role will be part of I Can Make It Better, a sister company to LRW.

At I Can Make It Better, we believe in the power of ideas, the wisdom of communities and the art of collaboration. Our insight community platform enables companies to make smarter, data-driven, and customer-centric decisions with integrated qualitative and quantitative consumer feedback tools. As the fastest-growing Market Research methodology, online community research brings brands and consumers into a collaborative partnership where organizational strategy and direction are always supported by market insights.

ABOUT THIS ROLE:

We're looking for a mid- to senior-level Ruby on Rails developer responsible for maintaining and expanding Ruby-based community research applications. Your primary responsibility will be to support and grow these applications, designing and developing new features to meet unique client needs. You will work with various teams, both in and out of the development team. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and building quality products is essential.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Design, build, and maintain, efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Support and improve mature/legacy applications
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Maintaining APIs
• Partner with leadership to map out new product features and solve unique client problems

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of experience with Ruby and the Rails framework
• Ability to write clean, readable Ruby code
• Must have full stack experience using Rails, Heroku/AWS, RDBMS (PostreSql/Mongo DB) and React/Bootstrap/TypeScript UI
• Proficient with code versioning tools, e.g. Github
• Must enjoy learning new things and working with mature products
• Must be self-directed and work well in a remote team environment
• Any experience using Elixir and Phoenix LiveView is a plus