Ruby Backend Software Engineer

Zelis is a company seeking a Ruby Backend Software Engineer to build scalable production applications and enhance their complex product. The role involves collaborating with product managers, writing maintainable code, and developing full-stack features.

Responsibilities:

• Write easily maintainable, extendable, and understandable code that adheres to software engineering design principles
• Creating and maintaining our APIs
• Developing new full-stack features to improve our products
• Supporting and enhancing current systems
• Debugging and optimizing code
• Supporting and development of comprehensive documentation and tests
• Building tooling to improve our operational efficiency
• Developing the frontend experience using Angular
• Creating and maintaining our Backend architecture
• Planning and maintaining a product long term
• Performing code reviews
• Collaborating with product to deliver on the roadmap

Requirements:

• Candidates Must be located 50-100 miles from one of the following locations: Morristown, NJ; Boston, MA; Atlanta, GA; St Petersburg, FL; St Louis, MO
• 2-3 years of backend development experience in Ruby
• Solid understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
• Understanding on how to build distributed high-volume services in Ruby
• Knowledge of development best practices (agile methodologies, code reviews, backend testing frameworks)
• Experience in backend architecture
• Experience with or understanding of front-end development, particularly Angular, to effectively collaborate on full-stack features
• Experience working with AWS
• Knowledge of API architecture development and optimization
• Solid understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL
• Understanding of Apache Solr or willingness to learn
• Exposure to queueing systems such as RabbitMQ or willingness to learn
• Experience contributing to products in a production environment (product lifecycle, sticking to release schedules, etc.)
• Knowledge of development best practices (agile methodologies, code reviews, JavaScript testing frameworks)