Job Description

This past year, our client was recognized by market research firm IDC as one Canada’s Top 10 Cloud Companies to Watch. Every week, millions of products from Fortune 500 brands reach retailers faster and cheaper thanks to our client`s software.

Our client offers a challenging, and fast-paced workplace, where your peers are very intelligent, hard-working, and lighthearted.

You will have outstanding independence and opportunities for career advancement.

Job Responsibilities

As a Ruby-on-Rails Developer, you will:

• Work closely with our product designers to understand functionality, layouts, and interfaces in order to provide accurate development estimates

• Adhere to our test driven development (TDD) standards by writing comprehensive tests to verify your code

• Pair program with other team members to implement Ruby code using the Ruby on Rails framework and other open source libraries

  As a senior developer, you will:

• Regularly assess the scalability of the data and application architecture to help us grow the product in a sustainable fashion.

• Help improve existing development processes and be able to impart change on other team members

  Mandatory Skills:

• Have excellent oral communication skills

• 5-10 years experience working on large-scale web applications (not necessarily in Ruby)

• Be proficient at the Ruby programming language and 2+ years working with Ruby on Rails

• Have strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL

• Show a strong ability to solve problems systematically and creatively

• Proven experience in areas such as job/messaging queues, geographical segmentation and internationalization, EDI integration, API development, manipulating very large datasets (100s of GB)

  Additional Assets:

• Experience with pair programming and test driven development

• Strong knowledge of tuning and scaling PostgreSQL

• Experience with document databases such as MongoDB

• Values efficiency, simplicity, and bang for buck