Job Description

We are looking for a Ruby developer with or without Kafka/event driven architecture experience responsible for building Ruby applications, including anything from complex groups of back-end microservices to command line utilities and data processing scripts. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications in backend / developing microservices, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and building quality products is essential.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code along with experience in Kafka
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Develop event driven architecture
• Backend coding with micro services experience

Skills

• Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Understanding of functional programming style in Ruby and / or Kafka / event driven architecture
• Skills for writing reusable Ruby libraries that may be used in expressive ways
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful
• Experience with popular web application frameworks {{such as Rails, Kafka, Lotus, etc depending on project requirements}}
• Familiarity with command-suite libraries, such as {{such as Thor and GLI, depending on project requirements}}
• Knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
• Experience with both external and embedded databases
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementation of automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools {{e.g. Git, Mercurial or SVN}}
• Familiarity with development aiding tools {{such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc}}
• Familiarity with continuous integration