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Staff Engineer (Ruby on Rails) - Startup (Remote)

Sollis Recruitment

Staff Engineer (Ruby on Rails) - Startup (Remote)

National
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    My client is a fast-growing startup and they provide a digital profile to facilitate onboarding, paying and insuring workers specifically for the entertainment industry. They have received $27 million in their series A funding and are rapidly growing their development team. Right now they are looking to add Staff Engineers (Ruby on Rails) to their team. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a hands-on role in driving their mission to build an outstanding technology company. You will be working as part of a cross-functional team, driving our core features from start to finish.

    Responsibilities:

    • Leading/contributing to high-impact tech initiatives that shape how developers write and ship code.
    • Design and build advanced infrastructure enabling fast iteration.
    • Improve the overall development process by identifying gaps or inefficiencies in workflows and suggesting solutions.
    • Evangelizing and driving the adoption of best practices in code health, testability, maintainability, scalability.
    • Implement and automate development best practices and strategies.
    • Develop and track key metrics for engineering performance, drive their improvement over time, and communicate their status.
    • Provide technical expertise throughout the product life cycle including design, implementation, and delivery of scalable build/test/release infrastructure.
    • Define the strategy and roadmap for the adoption of developer tools and test infrastructure across the Engineering organization.
    • Collaborate with leadership and key stakeholders on a regular basis.

    Required Skills & Experience:

    • 8+ years of experience in building a production web application (Agile or Lean environment)
    • At least one year experience as a tech lead or team lead
    • Enjoy mentoring other developers and helping them grow
    • Experience in building Ruby on Rails applications and APIs
    • Understanding of how to write, analyze and optimize SQL queries (PostgreSQL is a plus)
    • Experience designing and documenting RESTful APIs
    • Attention to details, customer centric approach and value for quality
    • Understanding of when it's appropriate to incur technical debt and when to pay it down

    Benefits & Perks:

    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
    • Work from anywhere you want
    • Health and Dental benefits
    • IT set up for your home
    • 401k and RRSP
    • Learning and Development Allowance

    Salary: $175,000

    *Only people that can currently work in Canada legally will be considered for this position. Thank you.