Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum 6 years of Ruby on Rails development experience with scalable applications., 8+ years in web development, with skills in optimizing and profiling web applications., Proficient in relational databases and experience with CI/CD tools like CircleCI., Familiarity with Agile methodologies and basic frontend frameworks such as Vue.js..

Key responsibilities:

Build and maintain scalable backend application architecture and software.

Support technology incidents and contribute to architecture, scalability, and performance initiatives.

Mentor team members and track deliverables within project management guidelines.

Collaborate with product teams to provide technology inputs and drive commercial objectives.

Job description

Shiftcare is the fastest growing start-up in it's industry and is redefining the way Aged Care and Disability Services are delivered in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

Working within a growing team as the business continues to scale, you will be given the task of building performant, scalable, and sustainable backend application architecture and software.

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

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