Senior Software Engineer (Rails/Ruby)

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Rails/Ruby)

Location: Toronto, ON (4 days hybrid)

Contract: Long Term

What will you do?

• Write high-quality, well-tested code while understanding business needs
• Maintain and ensure high quality software, with accountability for production reliability and usage
• Effectively contribute suggestions and new ideas to improve our platform.
• Designing, coding, unit testing and integrating new features and functionality as defined by the PO and team
• Participating in code reviews, architectural planning, and delivery meetings
• Updating progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) or Kanban board

What do you need to succeed?

Must-Have:

• 5+ years of experience and a solid understanding of Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Redis
• Deep experience with databases and data structures (MySQL or Postgres)
• Experience in Unit/Integration testing
• Experience in WCAG or Accessibility
• Experience with ReactJS, Webpack, jQuery/JavaScript/HTML
• Participate in code reviews, architectural planning, and delivery meetings
• You're a team player, and enjoy collaborating with the product, design, and engineering teams to solve problems
• You learn new concepts quickly (industry, business, and technical)
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You care deeply about application security and understand the importance of protecting sensitive user data

Nice to Have:

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in computer engineering or equivalent training/experience
• Experience with compliance standards, e.g. ISO 27001 or SOC 2
• Experience building apps in a cloud environment (i.e. Docker/Kubernetes)
• Deploying to cloud Infrastructure: AWS (various services), familiarity with Terraform
• Experience with Rust
• DevOps tools such as Docker, Github, CircleCI
• Monitoring and logging tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, Sumo Logic, Splunk
• Familiarity with Open API specification