Back-end Ruby on Rails Engineer
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Posted over 2 years ago
Blue Sky eLearn is hiring a fully remote Back-End Ruby on Rails Engineer for our Path LMS team. We need a talented, experienced engineer to help us refactor our monolith into microservices, build new microservices to support additional functionality, and build custom third-party integrations for new clients.
This is a 100% remote, full-time salaried position averaging 40 hours per week. Candidates must be located in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Create microservices to support new features in Path LMS which are scalable, well tested, and conform to industry and company standards
- Assist in refactoring our monolithic Rails application, including implementing large-scale database schema changes, modifying existing microservices, and identifying areas of the application which are in need of refactoring
- Maintain existing, and build new, third-party integrations and single-sign-on services using a variety of technologies such as SOAP, XML-RPC, YAML, OAuth, and OpenID
- Contribute in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including design reviews, writing user stories, reviewing code submitted by other engineers, and automated testing (we use rspec)
- Educate and mentor other engineers on the team
- Collaborate effectively with engineers, project managers, designers and QA
- Participate in project scoping and planning, including shaping and estimating of project tasks
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with at least 3 years of experience building web-based APIs with Ruby on Rails
- Great OO skills, including strong design pattern and MVC knowledge
- Experience implementing single-sign-on using OAuth and OpenID
- Experience integrating applications with third-party APIs using JSON, SOAP, SAML, and XML-RPC
- Experience building SQL database schemas (we currently use Postgresql)
- Knowledge of software best practices, including continuous integration and TDD / BDD using Rspec/Capybara (or similar)
- Experience using Git
- Experience working on an Agile/Scrum team
Nice to Have
- Experience working with Sidekiq
- Experience with Heroku
- PostgreSQL optimization experience
- Experience refactoring and/or rewriting a monolitic Rails application in production
R&D Team Values
- We communicate frequently and effectively
- We are levelheaded and compassionate
- We value diversity
- We are passionate about our work
- We maintain a healthy balance between work and life
About Our Product
Path LMS is an award-winning and powerful learning management platform that helps associations, corporations, and agencies provide high quality online education to their members. Millions of professionals, including school administrators, lawyers, physicians, and construction contractors, have been educated through courses powered by Path LMS.
As more and more organizations have needed to utilize online education in response to the current global pandemic, the use of our online learning management system has increased dramatically. So, too, have the demands on our app’s scalability, functionality, and usability.
Benefits & Perks
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- Paid long term disability and life and AD&D insurance
- Paid vacation, sick, bereavement, volunteer and family leave
- Paid company holidays
- 401(k) program
- Remote work
- Annual professional development reimbursement
- Salary $115k-$140k depending on experience