Ruby on Rails Engineer
WayBetter - US
Full-time
Posted: 8 days ago
About this Role:
WayBetter has an exciting opportunity for a passionate Ruby on Rails engineer to create modern applications with service-oriented architecture. This role is 100% remote, US based.
What you’ll Do:
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers on figuring out the best product enhancements to create value for customers and WayBetter
- Plan, design, and implement software to bring features to life
- Review the work of fellow engineers
- Fix bugs when they inevitably pop up
- Attend regular stand-ups
- Move as far up and down our technology stack as you’re comfortable with
- Help build a positive social network around gamifying health and wellness
- Explore paradigms like event-driven architecture to solve challenges in scaling distributed systems
Your Experience Looks Like:
- Expert-level knowledge of designing, building, and maintaining web applications in Ruby on Rails
- Demonstrated ability to store data in MySQL or PgSQL, to find inefficiencies, and to optimize them
- Familiarity with non-relational databases and when they might be the right choice
- Comfort producing and consuming JSON APIs
- Exposure to containerization (e.g. Docker) and container-orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of cloud hosting platforms (we use AWS)
- History of modifying web applications for increasing scale
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Close collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers
- Not only being highly productive, but helping others to be highly productive too
- Passion for development best-practices
- Eagerness to learn and grow as a software engineer
