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
- DevOps tools such as Docker, Github, CircleCI
- Monitoring and logging tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, Sumo Logic, Splunk
- Familiarity with Open API specification
