Senior Ruby on Rails Backend Developer

The ideal candidate needs to be comfortable participating in new development and maintenance while taking on multiple other responsibilities. Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL are our core technologies. Ultimately, we are looking for a top-level Senior Ruby on Rails Developer that can create, clean, organize, and write functional code that perfectly suits the needs of Tyfoom and our growing customer base.

Your responsibilities include developing back-end components and building/maintaining the mobile APIs. You will also be responsible for improving the stability, scalability, and core functionality of Tyfoom. You should have extensive experience working with scheduled and event-driven jobs. We work as a high-performing cross-functional team that cares deeply about our mission, customers, each other, and Tyfoom’s technological success -- our product reflects that mindset.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop new features
  




• Upgrade, stabilize, and optimize the existing code base
  




• Build to scale
  




• Create back-end models and controllers/API endpoints that the front-end developers can rely on
  




• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs
  




• Maintaining APIs
  

Requirements

• 10+ Years of Full-Time Work Experience with Ruby on Rails
  


• Experience with test-driven development in addition to regression and feature testing
  


• MVC Experience
  


• GitHub
  


• Security with Devise
  


• ActiveRecord
  


• Good atti​tude
  


• Great to work with
  

Additional Skills Preferred:

• Rails stabilization and optimization
  




• Server Ops (direct with AWS or via managed service)
  




• Documentation with Postman
  




• PostgreSQL query and schema optimization - content and performance DBA
  




• Frontend competence - HTML, CSS, JS - enough to maintain and update
  

Benefits

• Stock Options
  


• Holiday Pay
  


• Paid Time Off
  


• Health Insurance (3 plans to choose from)
  


• Opt in Dental and Vision Insurance