Senior Rails Developer

We are looking for a proven Senior Rails Developer to join our Product team. The ideal candidate will have broad experience architecting, developing, and maintaining full-stack web projects and possess a solid understanding of CS fundamentals. You will be expected to mentor your fellow Developers and assist with product management duties. We look for people with great instincts who are not afraid to make mistakes and will strive to produce polished code via test-driven development. We're not weighed down by multiple layers of management; you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with your work.

This position is full-time. Our team is located in Seattle but working remotely and open to full-time remote team members.

Responsibilities

Build fast and resilient product features, systems, and experiences

Contribute to strategic decisions with the rest of the product team

Translate complex problems, customer needs, and business objectives into actionable development goals

Take full ownership of development projects from concept, through implementation and iteration, to deployment and maintenance

Work closely with Designers to define feature specifications and bring your ideas to life

Mentor Developers and distill expertise and best practices to the team

Work efficiently in a fast-paced, self-directed environment

Requirements

Solid CS fundamentals

At least 4 years of experience developing full-stack web projects

Excellent understanding of object-oriented programming principles

Previous experience with Ruby on Rails or another modern web application framework

Familiarity with Git or another modern version control system

Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL

Ability to work both independently and in cooperation with others

A sense of urgency and ownership over the things you work on

Detail-oriented practices with pragmatic views towards shipping

Ability to give and receive direct feedback in a professional manner

Intellectual curiosity and creativity

A positive attitude

Bonus Points

Experience developing large-scale web products

Experience leading or managing a team of developers

Experience with Elasticsearch, HAProxy, Nginx, RabbitMQ, Redis, or Memcached

Experience working with operations to build and scale back-end infrastructure

Experience with JavaScript and JavaScript libraries, preferably jQuery and Backbone.js

Experience with HTML and CSS

Experience working at a SaaS company

Skills

Full Stack Web Projects

Ruby on Rails or other web application framework

SaaS

Git

SQL

Please include links to any products you have worked on along with your resumes