We are seeking Ruby-on-Rails Developers who will be responsible for advanced development of our critical internal and public-facing Ruby and Rails applications. Youwill create new applications and care for existing apps, all of which require new features, bug fixes, automated tests/specs, pull requests, code review, deployment, and ongoing support.

We build and maintain complex systems in a complex industry – we seek individuals who enjoy working with people to solve challenging and meaningful puzzles.

Remote OK but must live in the United States Responsibilities

• Meet with team members on regular sprints, develop and complete agreed-upon stories

• Develop modular, clean code with comprehensive tests

• Refactor existing code as you develop new code and leave both in clean, modern state

• Always improve User Interface (UI) and user experience, using best Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and design practices

• Attend daily standups, demo work during reserved demo time, attend team retrospectives

• Meet with colleagues across company to better understand requirements and ensure that new work fulfills real needs

• Use software design principles to determine where functionality should be built within applications and between applications (occasionally in completely new services)

• Provide clear documentation in code repos and in shared company wiki

• Manage the queue of incident tickets when rotation dictates: communicate on and clear support tickets in queue, as well as assist queue-master as time is available when off rotation

• Provide clear and advance communication to colleagues and stakeholders about upcoming system changes

• Take initiative to substantially improve customer and colleague workflows

• Use advanced new technologies judiciously to reduce complexity

• Ruby 1.8 – 2.x, rails 2.3 – 4.x

• Modern web development: html/haml, css/sass, javascript/coffeescript, sessions/cookies, security, optimization

• Automated testing frameworks (rspec), Continuous Integration

• Linux/Unix, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) emphasis

• Git and github

• MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached , Redis,

• Capistrano / server deploymentNginx, passenger, unicorn

• Chef or Ansible – Belief in infrastructure-as-code

• Server and cluster concepts: backup, load balancing, Access Control List (ACL), Disaster Recovery (DR)

• Linux containers and virtualization (we use OpenVZ)

• Understanding of modern cloud (compute, storage, networking), especially OpenStack

• Design and use Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Program Interfaces (APls) interface with other 3rd party services