Location: Austin, Chicago, or New York (Hybrid)
Type: Contract
Job Duties:
• Design, and implement complex, multi-tier distributed Design, and implement complex,
multi-tier distributed software applications, document and test systems, modify as appropriate.
• Provide technical and project leadership and mentoring. (For a couple of senior people)
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
• Build performance sensitive systems that serve tens of millions of requests each day.
Responsibilities:
• You know how to write highly scalable and distributed Ruby on Rails services.
• You have experience in developing mid-tier services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Experience working with Postgres and other relational DBs
• You are comfortable using Agile development methods
• Experience with Linux and VIM
• You have great communication skills.
Required Skills:
• Strong Ruby on Rails experience
• Knowledge/experience with GitHub.
• Experience with APIs
• Nice to have – knowledge of Javascript and other front end technologies