Senior software engineer (Ruby)

At 1000Farmacie we're looking for a senior back end developer to join our very agile development team.

You will help define and improve the development process; the shape and direction of the products; and the tactics and strategies for scaling the products. If you have a strong conviction about a particular tool, process, methodology or philosophy, we want to hear about it.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with CTO and product leadership and front end development to help develop, and fully understand, product requirements
• Collaborate on architectural decisions with an eye toward future flexibility
• Expand and improve the API, thoughtfully so as to minimize versioning turmoil
• Design and implement database schema changes, with appropriately nuanced attitudes about normalization
• Monitor and optimize (but not prematurely!) application performance
• Maintain, improve and expand the test suite
• Review other developers' code
• Ensure back end code and infrastructure are extensible, scalable and reliable

Experience Required:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, or related technical fields
• 5+ years professional experience as a back end or full stack developer
• Demonstrable specialization in Rails
• Exemplary code, and an understanding of what that means and why it matters
• Sane development philosophy
• Ability to work with Ruby outside Rails
• Substantial experience working with APIs (building, integrating with)
• Strong judgment in selection of library dependencies

Skills Required:

• Experience in web MVC framework preference for Ruby On Rails /Django/Spring etc.
• Experience in Cloud Platforms - AWS (preferred)/GCP
• Strong experience in web application concepts and standards.
• Production service trouble-shooting skills that span applications, systems, and networks.
• Experience in Databases such as MySQL/Postgres (Hosted and RDS/CloudSQL), NoSQL(Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Memcached)

Should have exposure to:

Version Control: Git / Github, SVN - Code review
App servers: Puma/Unicorn
Load Balancers on cloud platform (ex. AWS ELB)
APM
Log Management (cloud)
Container Orchestration (cloud)
Cloud Networking
OS: Linux