Senior System Engineer - Ruby on Rails

The Senior Systems Senior Systems Engineer is responsible for developing features and maintaining company software applications. The Senior Systems Engineer partners with other Engineers to review and deploy quality code. This Senior Engineer interacts and has regular meetings with the Program Manager and other Engineers to communicate progress around weekly development plans. In addition the Senior Engineer helps mentor and develop junior team :

• Write well-documented and structured code on a daily basis to meet weekly software development goals.
• Attend weekly development meetings and actively participate in discussions around best weekly software development goals and best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, business analysts, project managers and other engineers.
• Complete all assigned tasks in the ticketing system including new development and maintenance requests.
• Mentor junior team members by regularly reviewing and providing feedback on their code.
• Submit code for evaluation and feedback from Engineering team members through use of a version control tool.
• Consistently write unit and integration tests around code and maintain the company test suite.
• Develop a strong understanding of software development methodologies and styles that are most effective.
• Develop a strong understanding of the product code base in order to become more efficient and effective.
• Other job-related duties as Experience and Qualifications :
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field preferred; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
• 6 years of professional experience in backend web application stack, preferably Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of version control tools such as git.
• Knowledge of test driven development, preferably using Rspec.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable web application.

(ref : hirist.tech)