Mid/Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Shiftcare is the fastest growing start-up in it's industry and is redefining the way Aged Care and Disability Services are delivered in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

Working within a growing team as the business continues to scale, you will be given the task of building performant, scalable, and sustainable backend application architecture and software.

Responsibilities

• Work with the technology team in the adoption and maintenance of modern (agile) software engineering practices
• Build technical integrations with third party vendors
• Support critical technology incidents as needed
• Work in technology architecture, scalability, security and performance initiatives
• Deliver high quality hands-on engineering work inline with the companies commercial objectives
• Mentor other platform engineers and team members
• Track and drive to completion all of the platform focus group's deliverables
• Work within defined project management guidelines and security best practice
• Contribute technology inputs to product team and roadmap discussions
• Be the champion of delivering scalable, robust, commercially viable technology outcomes for the company
• Become a cultural change agent within the technology group to focus on engineering best-in-breed, commercially viable technology outcomes for the business

• Minimum 6 year’s industry experience with Ruby on Rails development deploying scalable Rails API & applications
• 8+ years experience in any Web Development fields
• Identifying bottlenecks, optimizing and profiling web applications using NewRelic and related tools
• Develop and maintain specs using Rspec, Jest and e2e preferably Cypress
• Experience in creating APIs
• Good understanding of pair programming and in pair code reviews
• Working proficiently in relational databases
• Have worked in teams of 3 or more developers
• Experience and understanding of CI/CD tools such as CircleCI
• Experience deploying scalable cloud solutions on AWS
• Experience working within Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban)
• Basic experience working with frontend frameworks such as Vuejs.
• DevOps skills a bonus

Your attributes

• Confident and autonomous
• You write performant, scalable, efficient code
• You take pride in your work
• You have good (written/verbal) communication skills and contribute regularly to architectural and team discussions
• You aren’t afraid of making and learning from mistakes
• You share and communicate your knowledge with the team
• TDD and BDD by default
• Some knowledge/interest in other technologies we use - Vuejs, React native, serverless