Senior Full Stack Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Skydropx is innovating logistics with a team of visionary people who want to grow and change the world. At Skydropx, you'll find a space to develop your career in a dynamic, ambitious, and multicultural work environment.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer (Ruby on Rails), you will:

• Develop mainly in Ruby on Rails, while also working with JavaScript.
• Write code that manages and optimizes shipping processes for thousands of businesses.
• Own the architecture, design, and implementation of key features of the Skydropx platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure high-quality standards through comprehensive testing, performance monitoring, and metrics tracking.
• Continuously learn and dive into Ruby internals and virtual machine details.
• Work closely with the broader engineering team to share knowledge and drive best practices.

The ideal candidate:

• Is a solid Ruby on Rails developer or a polyglot programmer proficient in adjusting to Ruby on Rails.
• Has advanced knowledge of garbage collectors, language interpreters, and virtual machines, and has dealt with concurrency and parallelism.
• Excels in writing clean, correct, well-tested, performant, and idiomatic code, particularly in Ruby on Rails.
• Has experience in library packaging.
• Is familiar with servers (like Puma or Gunicorn), web frameworks (like Rails or Django), background job processors (like Sidekiq or Karafka), middlewares, and muxers (such as Rack or gorilla/mux), and test frameworks (like RSpec or pytest).
• Has experience in advanced programming concepts such as metaprogramming, DSLs, monkey patching, or aspect-oriented programming.
• Cares about performance in terms of both time and space and has experience optimizing code accordingly.
• Stays up-to-date with library ecosystems and language communities, often diving into the code of dependencies to understand their behavior.
• Is an excellent community ambassador and can drive technical conversations towards effective solutions.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.

Bonus points for:

• Being a master Ruby on Rails programmer with extensive experience with frameworks like Rails, Sinatra, Grape, Karafka, and Sidekiq.
• Keeping up-to-date with the Ruby language and its library ecosystem and community.
• Experience interfacing with foreign code, e.g., via FFI.
• Experience with C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, Go, Perl, or Lua.
• Experience with code telemetry and introspection.

Join Skydropx and be part of innovating logistics in a dynamic, ambitious, and multicultural environment!