Position Summary:
We're looking for a Principal Ruby on Rails Engineer to build and support critical, client-facing and internal systems that provide real-time roadside assistance to a diverse customer-base, which range from OEM & Insurance carriers to connected vehicles. This individual will lead initiatives through all technical roadmap phases- design, implementation, testing, and maintenance, while continuously improving system health & quality. We are continuously making strides towards a true CI/CD culture and conduct daily Releases, and this individual would be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, with limited supervision, while maintaining and improving software and reliability metrics.
Key Outcomes:
- Full technical accountability of team product domains and support.
- Principal-level IC code contribution while setting and improving coding practices and standards.
- Work closely with Product managers to set expectations, clarify requirements, and communicate solution designs.
- Demonstrate technical expertise in multiple domains and mentor other developers on team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members on all aspects of product development.
- Identify technical opportunities, draft proposals, architect, plan and implement solutions with the team.
- Instrument monitors and provide post-launch support to live systems.
Skills, Education & Experience:
- You have 10+ years of experience in building large-scale web applications
- Experience as a Principal engineer on a team of more than 3 engineers
- Highly proficient in Ruby on Rails(including Sidekiq) and have a track record of delivering successful projects
- In-depth understanding of systems design, and scalable & reliable-data, API(REST/GraphQL) and presentation layers
- Expert in data modeling and in working with data storage and retrieval systems, in particular Redis, SQL, Postgres
- Ability to own complete features and systems end-to-end - conception, breakdown, implementation, deployment
- Conversant with multiple system, API, and code design patterns and paradigms, and can advocate and influence peers to adopt and implement effective practices
- Appetite to learn new technologies quickly and onboard to stack
- A self-starter, results-oriented individual with excellent problem solving skills
- CS or Engineering related Degree
Nice To Haves:
- GraphQL
- Elastic Search
- Datadog
- ReactJS
- CircleCI/Harness
Hiring In:
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United States: AZ, FL, GA, NH, IL, KY, MA, MI, NC, NM, TN, VA, CA
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Canada: Province of Ontario
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