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Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) - Mindbody

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The Software Engineer IV (Senior Ruby on Rails Developer) is the vanguard for software design and implementation at Mindbody. The motto of this role is to be the first to break down complex problems and envision elegant solutions. Members of this role are the go-to subject matter experts and guides responsible for actualizing technical innovations within our core product. This includes spearheading technical designs, producing proof-of-concepts and manufacturing effective documentation to inform implementation teams.
Job summary
The Mindbody Consumer Marketplace is looking to grow our engineering team. We are seeking an intelligent, ego-free and inquisitive problem solver who loves learning just as much as they do teaching. You would be joining a dynamic team with a strong focus on collaboration and creativity. Work in partnership with a diverse group of engineers and QA to create unique customer solutions for an ever-changing marketplace. We emphasize flexibility and a strong work life balance in conjunction with a fast-paced, agile environment. The team values transparency, being humble and helpful, and embracing the Scrum framework. This is an opportunity to be a part of a supportive engineering culture that not only values building great software but improving the lives of the people that use our products every day.
Minimum qualifications and requirements
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience knowledge of the Ruby language, related frameworks (Rails), and the Ruby toolchain.
• Substantial experience with BDD or TDD and testing frameworks.
• Substantial experience designing APIs.
• 4+ years of industry experience programming web applications, mobile and/or large-scale enterprise products.
• Hands-on experience with both RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQLServer, etc.) and NoSQL (Mongo, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Fluency in Git and branching workflows such as Gitflow or Trunk-based development.
• Demonstrated ability to work well on highly collaborative scrum teams.
• Detailed oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude.
• Comfort with *nix-based systems and the command prompt.
• Experience using Docker and/or Kubernetes.
• Familiar with AWS services including EKS, EC2, ElastiCache, DynamoDb, SNS, SQS.
• Familiar with SDLC and programming design patterns.
• Familiar with Agile methodology.
• Skillful at reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks.
• Demonstrated ability to pick up new concepts quickly.
• Interest in working with various server languages such as: Golang, C#, or something other than Ruby.
• Communicate professionally both verbally and in writing.
• Effective time management skills.
Additional desired background
• Familiarity with architecture patterns like Pub/Sub, Event Sourcing and CQRS.
• Familiarity search engines such as CloudSearch and ElasticSearch.
• Familiarity with IaC concepts and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Chef, CloudFormation, or similar.
Principal duties and responsibilities
• Be the technical lead throughout the development lifecycle, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance.
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle.
• Conducts systems analysis and makes recommendations to improve the system to achieve an outcome.
• Promotes internal best practices and coding conventions to write and execute tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive automated tests.
• Occasional on-call rotation duty to respond to after-hours system incidents.
• Requests constructive feedback for designs early in the process.
• Communicates successfully with large teams and many personalities.
• Provides mentorship for Software Engineers and participates in interview panels to hire new Software Engineers.
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
• Ability to decompose and delegate work to junior engineers.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of -the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Works effectively with multiple projects and departments.
• Ensures designs and projects created comply with design library guidelines, internal best practices, and coding conventions when applicable.
• All other duties as assigned.
Work environment and physical demands
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard.
• This position is mostly stationary and will be required to remain stationary for extended periods of time.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.
Scope of supervision/authority
Duties are performed under limited supervision. Often responsible for planning and organizing their own work, which may or may not be directly related to general business operations of the company or its customers. Will receive training and guidance from manager as needed. Individual contributors may be required to regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance depending on the nature of the position. No direct management responsibility.