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