Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join FilmFreeway's team as a Senior Ruby Engineer to build and optimize the best user-focused product serving the film industry. As a key member of our small but mighty engineering team, you will be responsible for leading feature development, managing timelines, and collaborating with designers and product developers.

Requirements

• Demonstrated prior experience leading feature development (delegating, code reviews, overseeing projects to completion) and shipping software in a professional team setting
• Strong project management skills; ability to create timelines, prioritize tasks, and communicate with stakeholders
• Familiarity with project management software such as JIRA to manage tasks and coordinate with others
• 8+ years of experience working with Ruby on Rails
• Demonstrated ability to create and improve well-architected, readable code that conforms to established best practices and RESTful principles
• Deep knowledge of the standard Ruby library
• Experience upgrading Ruby on Rails (RoR) between major versions
• 4+ years of experience using ReactJS or a comparable frontend framework for building user forms and interactions
• Knowledge of responsive styling using CSS and preprocessors like SCSS and SASS
• Experience with ElasticSearch and full-text indexing of content
• Experience with caching solutions such as Memcached and Redis
• Experience integrating with third-party payment solutions such as Stripe, PayPal, and Dwolla
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, including security and deployment best practices, EC2, S3, RDS, Elasticache, Elastic Transcoder, and OpenSearch
• Experience managing Linux servers from “fresh install” to “running production stable”; ability to provision systems using Ansible and comfortable with command-line tools
• Experience monitoring and managing the WAF firewall and network optimization through Cloudflare
• Experience creating small utilities through AWS lambda or Cloudflare workers
• Ability to implement automated testing of your code, particularly integration testing via Selenium / Capybara
• Competency working with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and experience designing database schema, particularly in relation to Ruby on Rails / ActiveRecord
• Familiarity working with mass email systems such as Sendgrid
• Experience writing both client and server side (Node.js) Javascript

Responsibilities

• Lead feature development while managing timelines and stakeholder expectations
• Collaborate with designers and product developers to conceptualize and build new features end-to-end
• Design, write and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby and JavaScript code
• Establish processes to ensure maintainability of new code; upgrade old code to new standards via refactor and replacement
• Write automated tests to ensure proper code coverage for new features
• Plan, develop, upgrade, and maintain current and future infrastructure and frameworks
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues while coordinating with the Support team to deliver the best possible user experience
• Monitor system instrumentation to optimize performance
• Investigate and implement new web development technologies and best practices, as applicable
• Identify any bottlenecks or bugs in the system and devise solutions
• Work in a collaborative environment where you will need to coordinate with and mentor other team members and department