Senior Fullstack Ruby/React Software Engineer

Summary

Join Mitratech's Trakstar Perform team and contribute to a performance management system designed to streamline employer review processes and enhance employee engagement. We build high-quality, well-tested, secure, and scalable software using cutting-edge technologies. This role offers the chance to work with a growing company, collaborate with an excellent team, architect solutions to complex problems, and deliver valuable features. You will build subject matter expertise, write clean and well-tested code, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate effectively within an agile development environment. The ideal candidate will possess strong software engineering skills, experience with specific technologies, and a commitment to building a positive engineering culture.

Requirements

• Possess a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience. Emphasis in engineering, data science, computer science, or information systems is preferred
• Have a minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience with SaaS applications
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails and React a must
• Knowledge of Git source control, versioning/branching, rebasing, etc
• Use of AWS systems (RDS, EC2, S3, Security Groups, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Experience with Agile SCRUM model
• Proficiency with code coverage and unit testing frameworks
• Familiar with ticket tracking tools such as JIRA
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, secure sessions, identity and access management providers (OAuth, SAML, etc.)
• Advanced experience with database queries, SQL, optimization and tuning (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• Knowledge of caching systems (Redis, Memcache, Elasticache)

Responsibilities

• Build subject matter expertise on your team’s code base and platform
• Write clean, production-ready code that is easily understood and well tested
• Do no harm and leave it better than you found it when refactoring components
• Serve in an on-call rotation (DevOps philosophy where you will participate in ops) and respond promptly to any production issues to remediate rapidly
• Be a teammate, communicate well, show up when expected, and be available
• Write secure code. Avoid introducing an OWASP vulnerability. Know how APIs are secured, sessions are handled, and data is validated properly
• Work in an agile development model and participate, or even lead, sprint planning activities to break down epics, estimating accurately and consistently
• Look for and surface dependencies that can create technical challenges, bottlenecks, or otherwise inhibit deliveries
• Build reliable observability; monitor and log alerts to ensure the team is aware of, and can respond to, quality issues or outages
• Help other teammates resolve complex problems or think through design/architecture challenges. Be available and responsive
• Foster an excellent engineering culture based in trust, accountability, character, and honesty
• Seek feedback and deliver constructive criticism (e.g., code reviews) in a tactful and empathetic manner; build others up and mentor without ego
• Be proactive in moving to new cards/stories and contributing to the team’s forward momentum
• Remediate security risks found via penetration tests and scans

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Backbone.js, coffeescript/handlebars, webpack, Rspec, and Terraform a plus