Senior Backend Engineer- Ruby on Rails
Description For Senior Backend Engineer- Ruby on Rails
Cast & Crew, a leader in the entertainment industry, is seeking a Senior Ruby Engineer for their FilmFreeway brand. FilmFreeway is the world's leading film festival marketplace, trusted by major brands like HBO, The Oscars®, and NBC-Universal. As a Senior Ruby Engineer, you'll be part of a small but mighty engineering team, working on the entire system from feature development to production reliability.
You'll be leading feature development, collaborating with designers and product developers to build new features end-to-end. Your responsibilities include designing and maintaining efficient Ruby and JavaScript code, establishing processes for code maintainability, and writing automated tests. You'll also be involved in planning and upgrading infrastructure, troubleshooting technical issues, and optimizing system performance.
The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails, strong project management skills, and deep knowledge of the Ruby library. You should be comfortable with frontend frameworks like ReactJS, have experience with ElasticSearch, caching solutions, and third-party payment integrations. Familiarity with AWS, Linux server management, and automated testing is crucial.
This remote position offers a competitive salary range of $150,000 - $180,000 USD, along with a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Join Cast & Crew and be part of a team that's setting the industry standard for film festivals and creative contests worldwide!
Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer- Ruby on Rails
- Lead feature development while managing timelines and stakeholder expectations
- Collaborate with designers and product developers to conceptualize and build new features end-to-end
- Design, write and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby and JavaScript code
- Establish processes to ensure maintainability of new code; upgrade old code to new standards via refactor and replacement
- Write automated tests to ensure proper code coverage for new features
- Plan, develop, upgrade, and maintain current and future infrastructure and frameworks
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues while coordinating with the Support team
- Monitor system instrumentation to optimize performance
- Investigate and implement new web development technologies and best practices
- Identify any bottlenecks or bugs in the system and devise solutions
- Work in a collaborative environment and mentor other team members
Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer- Ruby on Rails
- 8+ years of experience working with Ruby on Rails
- Strong project management skills
- Familiarity with project management software such as JIRA
- Deep knowledge of the standard Ruby library
- Experience upgrading Ruby on Rails (RoR) between major versions
- 4+ years of experience using ReactJS or a comparable frontend framework
- Knowledge of responsive styling using CSS and preprocessors like SCSS and SASS
- Experience with ElasticSearch and full-text indexing of content
- Experience with caching solutions such as Memcached and Redis
- Experience integrating with third-party payment solutions such as Stripe, PayPal, and Dwolla
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services
- Experience managing Linux servers
- Experience monitoring and managing the WAF firewall and network optimization through Cloudflare
- Experience creating small utilities through AWS lambda or Cloudflare workers
- Ability to implement automated testing of code, particularly integration testing via Selenium / Capybara
- Competency working with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Familiarity working with mass email systems such as Sendgrid
- Experience writing both client and server side (Node.js) Javascript
Benefits For Senior Backend Engineer- Ruby on Rails
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- PTO
- Health and wellness programs
- Employee discounts
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