Work with product, UX, and fellow developers to gain a deep understanding of customer problems and lead development of features to solve those problems
Hold a high bar of personal technical excellence, demonstrated through high quality, thoroughly tested, and exemplary code contributions and reviews
Contribute to our culture of “you build it, you own it” by listening to your spidey sense and identifying tech debt or other opportunities to improve our technical architecture
Discover, propose, and evangelize the latest & best practices in Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and database design
Build private and public GraphQL API’s that power the OpsLevel front-end experience and CLI capabilities
Lead technical explorations and create PoC prototypes to discover then build the best solution
Execute projects in a timely manner, helping the team communicate when they are on or off track to meet goals
Leverage your years of experience by being a mentor and investing in the growth and success of those around you
Participate in our oncall schedule, where you may be required to troubleshoot across our core technical stack (Ruby on Rails, VueJS, GraphQL, and MySQL)

An empathetic, pragmatic, and collaborative approach to problem solving. Done is better than perfect.
A strong growth mindset. You’re comfortable learning new things quickly. Unknowns are new frontiers waiting to be discovered.
Experience designing architectures with strong interface boundaries and separation of concerns. Your craft is deeply rooted in SOLID design principles.
Thorough understanding of writing web applications with Rails. You probably have at least 5 years of experience with Rails or 7 years with a similar web framework (e.g., Spring, Django, Node.js).
Experience designing performant data models with MySQL. You have strong opinions on how to structure data in an RDBMS. You know when and how to use indices and when to denormalize data. You have battle scars from debugging and fixing slow queries.
Nice to Haves
Experience with modern cloud technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
An understanding of job systems for Ruby on Rails such as Sidekiq
A deep understanding of MySQL
Have experience in scaling a web application to thousands of users and millions of events
Knowledge of in memory datastores like Redis,
You can empathize with companies that run 100’s of applications or microservices.

Senior Fullstack Software Developer, Backend Focused

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