Mid/Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

About ShiftCare
ShiftCare’s innovative software is a market leader which helps Australian & American disability support providers, in-home aged carers and allied health professionals, streamline the way they work by creating efficiencies in rostering, client management and billing, enabling businesses to grow.

About The Team You’ll Be Joining

The ShiftCare Engineering team is on a mission to make ShiftCare accessible to more businesses across Australia & the United States, but this is just the beginning of our journey. Doubling in revenue every year, we are having a fun time scaling our systems and processes appropriately.

You will help us in ensuring our main feature development team delivers software designed, built and maintained to the highest standards to enable our growth. We treat software development as a craft and are passionate about reliability, our customers, and doing more with less.

Responsibilities

• Work with the technology team in the adoption and maintenance of modern (agile) software engineering practices
• Build technical integrations with third party vendors
• Support critical technology incidents as needed
• Work in technology architecture, scalability, security and performance initiatives
• Deliver high quality hands-on engineering work inline with the companies commercial objectives
• Mentor other platform engineers and team members
• Track and drive to completion all of the platform focus group's deliverables
• Work within defined project management guidelines and security best practice
• Contribute technology inputs to product team and roadmap discussions
• Be the champion of delivering scalable, robust, commercially viable technology outcomes for the company
• Become a cultural change agent within the technology group to focus on engineering best-in-breed, commercially viable technology outcomes for the business

Requirements

• Minimum 6 year’s industry experience with Ruby on Rails development deploying scalable Rails API & applications
• 8+ years experience in any Web Development fields
• Identifying bottlenecks, optimizing and profiling web applications using NewRelic and related tools
• Develop and maintain specs using Rspec, Jest and e2e preferably Cypress
• Experience in creating APIs
• Good understanding of pair programming and in pair code reviews
• Working proficiently in relational databases
• Have worked in teams of 3 or more developers
• Experience and understanding of CI/CD tools such as CircleCI
• Experience deploying scalable cloud solutions on AWS
• Experience working within Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban)
• Basic experience working with frontend frameworks such as Vuejs.
• DevOps skills a bonus

Your Attributes

• Confident and autonomous
• You write performant, scalable, efficient code
• You take pride in your work
• You have good (written/verbal) communication skills and contribute regularly to architectural and team discussions
• You aren’t afraid of making and learning from mistakes
• You share and communicate your knowledge with the team
• TDD and BDD by default
• Some knowledge/interest in other technologies we use - Vuejs, React native, serverless

Benefits