Lead Ruby on Rails Developer

This role is 100% remote. Must be based in U. S. 6-month, contract-2-hire. Competitive rate and salary. Lead Software Engineer (RoR) T...

This role is 100% remote. Must be based in U. S.

6-month, contract-2-hire. Competitive rate and salary.

Lead Software Engineer (RoR)

The Lead Engineer position is an outstanding opportunity to join a vibrant, disruptive

technology company operating a cloud-based platform for multilingual web conferences, online meetings, live events, etc. powered by remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI). As a Lead Engineer, you will be driving major development initiatives at the organization, mentoring other fellow engineers and raising the bar of the software we develop.

Major Duties:

Responsible for designing, developing and deploying various critical features and mentoring other members of the team. Driving major architectural changes required for solving problems related to Security, Scalability etc.

Team Interaction:

You will be reporting to the Director of Engineering. You will be closely collaborating with the rest of the engineers in the company on a daily basis, mentoring them to learn best practices to write rock solid code.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with other designers and developers.
• Mentoring other team members to learn good software development practices.
• Write and help others to write reliable, testable and maintainable code that improves the overall quality of the code base.
• Help upholding our engineering culture and software development standards.
• Lead various architectural and design discussions.
• Code Reviews

Technologies and Methodologies:

• Strong familiarity and working experience with the following:
• Frameworks: Ruby-on-Rails
• Angular, JavaScript, React
• Real-Time Communication WebRTC and signaling
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Memcached
• Testing: Rspec, Capybara, Cucumber

Minimum Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience developing customer facing applications with any Ruby based framework like Sinatra or Rails.
• Passionate for learning new things. Rapidly moving company and we welcome changes, and we require people who can quickly adapt and learn fast.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Prior leadership experience.