Senior Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

Title: Senior Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

Location: Austin, TX/Sunnyvale, CA/Sacramento, CA

Position: Contract

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Role Description:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer responsible for the development and design of web applications and components across both front-end (GUI) and backend. You will design, code, test, and implement websites and applications for internal or external use, and troubleshoot issues around performance, response times, capacity, and system limitations. You’ll collaborate with internal business partners, internal technology resources (database, system, networking), and external vendors, and ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency across the organization

Responsibilities:

Design, code, test, and implement large-scale web applications and components across the full stack (front-end GUI and backend).

Troubleshoot and resolve issues around performance, response times, capacity, and system limitations.

Collaborate with internal business partners, internal technology resources, and external vendors; maintain applications and ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency.

Create and maintain documentation for the applications you build.

Preferred Qualifications

Testing, CI, and DevOps - working knowledge of integrated testing frameworks (RSpec, MiniTest), CI suites (CircleCI, Jenkins), and DevOps and AWS infrastructure.

GoLang and Java - expert knowledge of GoLang, Java, or a similar compiled, high- concurrency, lower-level language (Erlang, C++, Rust, etc.).

Analytical, Problem Solving, and Communication Skills - excellent analytical, problem- solving, and communication skills, including cross-functional collaboration and relationship building.

Minimum Qualifications

6+ years in a senior software engineering role.

6+ years of the Ruby on Rails framework and Ruby as a core language.

6+ years of API design and interface technologies (JSON, ProtoBuf, REST, RPC, XML, etc.).

6+ years of front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React) and database design and queries (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).

Knowledge of integrating GenAI into development workflows.

Skills: Digital: Ruby on Rails ~Digital: GoLang ~Core Java

Experience Required: 8-10