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NOTE: Please apply only if you have 9+ years of overall experience as a Sr. Ruby & Rails Developer. Title: Ruby & Rails Senior Software Engineer [BizID#6788] Location: Seattle, WA (Remote) Preferable Local Candidates Experience: 9+ years Job Description: The position must have the following: Senior Software Engineer/ Lead Engineer for an enterprise Ruby & Rails mission-critical applications for a global insurance provider. A team consists of a couple of onshore leads, and 10 offshore systems engineers to provide application support. The expectation is that this role provides technical guidance, direction, hands-on expertise, and experience in server and farm upgrades, with on-call support as required. Client collaboration is an integral component of this role. The successful candidate will take firm ownership of all Ruby & Rails applications under their control. He or she will be able to balance the inherent conflict between system stability/availability and the business need for functional enhancements and customization and assist development teams with operationalization & best practices for deployments. The successful candidate will be highly experienced with 6+ years in the field and love the detailed engineering aspects of the job. Responsibilities: Design, implement, document, and maintain front and back-end systems for high-traffic applications Help peel off monolith code into well-organized architecture Help drive technical standards for the team Help us set a high bar for quality, from code and systems to how we treat each other Provide material feedback on the work of junior and mid-level programmers Integrate & coordinate with client engineering teams, building trust, and ensuring technical stakeholder relationship health Implement capture and reporting on managed service metrics, and ensure that SLA targets are met Manage and mentor junior team members, and outline training and certification paths accordingly Minimum Qualifications: Minimum of 6 years Ruby & Rails application development, software test automation, object-oriented development, working with relational databases, and writing SQL queries or stored procedures High level of ability coding in Ruby and expert level familiarity with the Rails framework Advanced level of querying in ORMs such as Active Record and Sequel Experience with large Rails/Rack-based applications Experience mentoring junior to mid-level engineers while balancing current work High proficiency in some of the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, Elastic Search, VPC Proficient in vanilla JavaScript (outside of using it with a modern web framework) Advanced level of querying in ORMs such as Active Record and Sequel Experience with large Rails/Rack-based applications Proficiency with code versioning tools like Bitbucket, Git, Github Familiarity with MVC, REST Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS3, and Bootstrap framework Familiarity with database technology and SQL programming (MySQL, Postgress) Experience working with Agile methodologies and tools (we use Jira, Scrum) We need a strong consultant here, who can wear many hats as needed and drive outcomes. Rigid mindsets, poor cultural fit, or language difficulties will be blockers to acceptance.