Sr RoR Engineer

A fast-growing company delivering a web-based cloud platform as well as building analytics and workflows that enable customers to navigate their data is looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer. As a part of the early team, you will be a strong contributor and a leader in the business. The engineer will be responsible for the architecture, roadmap, hiring, engineering culture, and work on delivering high-quality code at a fast pace. The company has raised a strong round of funding from top-tier investors and grown rapidly with up to a +500% increase in the past year. The selected candidate will have a great chance to collaborate with experienced professionals including the CTO, Head of Design, etc., to build out new features and tackle complex problems. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality, robust, clean, and reusable codes quickly
• Ensure high performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Take responsibility for the product’s architecture, roadmap, hiring, and engineering culture
• Lead and improve the customer experience and great product engineering
• Update the system nightly through ETL processes, translating customer data into a common format that's easy to query and visualize
• Ensure strong writing/documentation culture, high test coverage, and keeping low technical debt
• Navigate and improve the ETL, analyze the data, ensure the design reflects the data, and translate mockups into codes
• Identify and track down the bug report that is causing problems, and quickly identify a solution that can both address the bug and also improve the state of the codebase
• Proactively suggest ways to make the QA processes better, and contribute solutions that will help the engineering team to create tooling that supports the QA team
• Guide and mentor your team members while bringing outside resources for training and mentorship

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• Must have strong back-end Ruby experience along with Rails and SQL
• Must be well-versed in window functions, rollup tables, and caching
• Experience with RSpec, Heroku, PostgreSQL, and Redis
• Prior experience using Stimulus and Chartist for visualizations
• Prior front-end programming experience, especially with Typescript and modern browser APIs, is nice to have
• Excellent project management skills are a must 
• Ability to break down a complex task into smaller steps and excellent problem-solving skills
• Capable of communicating potential solutions and delegate the decision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Ability to proactively document and explain project status and technical details to both technical and non-technical audiences