Oddball is hiring a
Senior Rails Engineer in Worldwide

Summary

Oddball is hiring a Senior Rails Engineer to work on a Federal program that aims to make a positive impact on millions of Americans' daily lives. The engineer will be responsible for developing API endpoints and services using Ruby on Rails, working with message queues, and creating APIs that support digital services. They should have at least 5 years of experience in Ruby on Rails and Agile software development environments, extensive experience in taking program requirements and creating an architecture vision, and be able to write code that is a pleasure for other engineers to read.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in working with Ruby on Rails
• Minimum of 3 years working in an Agile software development environment
• Programming in a major open source language, such as Ruby, Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript
• Understanding of the fundamental technologies of the web: HTTP, SSL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON
• Experience with a front end JS framework (like Angular, React, Backbone)
• Extensive experience in taking program requirements and creating an architecture vision
• Experience in creating and conveying to team members the architectural vision for a program or project
• Build APIs that support both the digital services we deliver as well as third-party usage
• Use unit and integration testing to ensure systems meet business needs
• The ability to write code that is a pleasure for other engineers to read and understand
• Experience participating in design meetings and consulting with your project team to refine, test, and debug programs in order to meet business needs

Responsibilities

• Working hand in hand with other engineers in developing API endpoints and services that proxy requests to various other applications
• Some of these rely on message queues, some are xml, some are json
• Day to day work will involve writing code, developing tests, and debugging

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Amazon Web Services, in particular EC2, S3, and RDS

Benefits

• Fully remote
• Annual Stipend
• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Company Match 401(k) plan
• Flexible PTO, Paid Holidays