Vaco Looking for Full-Stack RoR Engineer /RESTful API/ Angular/React – $60/hr Full Time

Job Description

As a member of this team, you will work on apps that represent the central nervous system of many of the other apps in our company which provide learning content at discounted prices. You will work closely with other members of the team and members of other teams to continue shepherding our app into the modern era, analyzing the current code, finding ways to optimize performance and structuring clean code. While your focus will be on the back-end, you would also be able to work on the frontend including React.

Our team consists of 4 developers, 2 QA, a project manager and an engineering manager. We communicate openly using Slack, JIRA and GitHub seeking to learn and to help each other. We are an agile team using kanban with daily standups (~15 min), weekly refinements to discuss upcoming work, weekly code health analysis and monthly retrospectives (kaizens) where we collaborate in refining our processes.

Once a month, we also do a deep dive into an area of code or tool that we currently use or are interested in using so we can continue learning together.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

• 4+ years of application developer/software engineer experience

• 4+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails

• Experience with MySQL or other relational database management systems Preferred Skills:

• Experience/ knowledge of large-scale, highly-available SaaS web applications and RESTful APIs

• Experience with and a passion for open source-based development, continuous delivery models, and using best-of-breed tools?

• Experience with Agile development environments and working with DevOps teams to create great software

• Experience with Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, Message Queuing, ElasticSearch, and other related platform technologies

Other Bonus Skills: * Experience with Go and/or Elixir * Experience with React Key Responsibilities: *

Develop creative and innovative solutions for the next generation of educational learning

• Effectively work in an Agile team environment developing solutions for our core products and Software-as-a-Service platform

• Provide full application development life cycle support, including specifications, prototypes, development, quality assurance and deployment

• Communicate effectively with internal users as needed to support channel integration, development, and support

• Support development with appropriate documentation

• Develop and modify internal and external facing software as part of an engineering team

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