Build subject matter expertise on your team’s code base and platform.
Write clean, production-ready code that is easily understood and well tested.
Do no harm and leave it better than you found it when refactoring components.
Serve in an on-call rotation (DevOps philosophy where you will participate in ops) and respond promptly to any production issues to remediate rapidly.
Be a teammate, communicate well, show up when expected, and be available.
Write secure code. Avoid introducing an OWASP vulnerability. Know how APIs are secured, sessions are handled, and data is validated properly.
Work in an agile development model and participate, or even lead, sprint planning activities to break down epics, estimate accurately and consistently.
Look for and surface dependencies that can create technical challenges, bottlenecks, or otherwise inhibit deliveries.
Build reliable observability; monitor and log alerts to ensure the team is aware of, and can respond to, quality... issues or outages.
Help other teammates resolve complex problems or think through design/architecture challenges. Be available and responsive.
Foster an excellent engineering culture based in trust, accountability, character, and honesty.
Seek feedback and deliver constructive criticism (e.g., code reviews) in a tactful and empathetic manner; build others up and mentor without ego.
Be proactive in moving to new cards/stories and contributing to the team’s forward momentum.
Participate and hold code reviews to ensure high quality deliveries.
Your qualifications:
Possess a Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience. Emphasis in engineering, data science, computer science or information systems is preferred.
Have a minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience with SaaS applications.
Proficiency with Ruby on Rails and React a must. Experience with Backone.js, webpack, Rspec, and Terraform a plus.
Knowledge of Git source control, versioning/branching, rebasing, etc.
Use of AWS systems (RDS, EC2, RDS, Security Groups, CloudWatch, Ops tools, etc.),
Experience with Agile SCRUM model.
Knowledge of code coverage and unit testing frameworks.
Familiar with Ticket tracking such as JIRA/Pivotal.
Knowledge of RESTful APIs, secure sessions, identity and access management providers (OAuth, SAML, etc.).
Experienced with database queries, SQL, optimization and tuning (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
Knowledge of caching systems (Redis, Memcache, Elasticache).
Familiar with queueing systems (SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, etc
