Ruby on Rails Engineer (Fully Remote, US)

Within3 is searching for a Ruby on Rails Engineer with mid-level career knowledge. This Engineer will work within a distributed agile team to implement and maintain secure, scalable, cloud-based web apps / APIs. We are hiring for a curious and compassionate engineer who has a strong technical foundation. This role will be directly supporting our various public data integrations. These integrations are data sources for multiple internal and customer facing systems.

We are a remote-first engineering team spanning multiple time zones and countries. Daily collaboration heavily utilizes GitHub, Slack, Google Meet and Jira. Our focus is on the business needs with an eye toward product efficiency, scalability and data integrity. We strive to provide high quality code through practices such as TDD, continuous delivery, scalable design and individual knowledge growth. And we maintain a commitment to balancing resources across new features, emerging technologies and technical debt.

Technology Summary

• Ruby on Rails 6.x and 7.x
• Ruby 3.x
• Javascript, SCSS, Haml, ERB, HTML
• PostgreSQL, Redis
• Sidekiq, SQS, S3
• AWS, GitHub, Datadog

Job Responsibilities

• Design, guide and advance existing, as well as new, web apps and APIs which service the company’s flagship SaaS platform.
• Work collaboratively with a distributed team to deliver modern, scalable, SaaS software.
• Be curious, empathetic, and humble.
• Write clear, extensible, maintainable and testable code.
• Work with product owners to refine internal and external requirements; so we build the right solution to a problem.
• Engage in the continued pursuit of improved skills and knowledge.
• Engage in sharing knowledge and feedback.
• Work with QA and SREs to ensure platform stability, availability, and quality.
• Develop a deep appreciation and understanding of data, systems and scale.

Requirements

Required

• 3+ years of professional programming experience with Ruby on Rails
• Strong front-end experience with HTML, Javascript, Sass/CSS
• Direct experience using at least one of the following relational databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server or Oracle
• Understanding of modern API design patterns (REST, JSON, GraphQL, etc.)
• Strong collaboration and communication (verbal and written) skills
• Flourishes in a team which delights in collaborating, building each other up and continuous learning
• Ability to foster cross-team relationships with empathy and respect.
• Enthusiastic and passionate about UX, scalable systems and data

Desirable

• Experience with at least one NoSQL database (e.g. Redis, Neo4j, Couchbase)
• Experience with SOA, job queues, concurrent programming and observability
• Understanding of privacy-by-design frameworks and code-level security techniques

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Training & Development
• Work From Home