Job Description

Responsibilities

• Experience helping others to design, write, conduct, and direct the development of tests
• Help build standards, best practices based on industry trends
• Design and develop solution strategy which supports productivity, maintainability, interoperability, and product growth
• Prevent decision process from stalling by ensuring solution level issues are addressed promptly
• Conduct, manage, and enforce code reviews
• Conduct technical and feature risks assessments and communicate to the architecture and product management groups
• Educate and enforce clean code that follows the main programming principles
• Enforce Proper Unit, Integration, System, Performance level Tests, Code Coverage, and Static/Dynamic Code Quality Metrics
• Work with Architects to ensure proper solution based on the established architectural principles and patterns
• Educate and enforce proper and efficient API/framework documentation Mentor and guide technical resources within team
• Guide and participate in recruiting best technical talent for the team
• Write web services, business objects, and other middle-tier framework using the framework
• Use tools and technologies to extend and improve the functionality of our product
• Communicate with team members to clarify requirements and overcome obstacles to meet the team goals
• Develop cutting edge solutions to maximize the performance, scalability, and distributed processing capabilities of the system
• Provide troubleshooting and root cause analysis for issues that are escalated to the team
• Work with development teams in an agile context as it relates to software development, including test driven development, automated unit testing and test fixtures, and pair programming

Requirements

• 6 or more years of experience as a technical lead senior engineer or solutions architect on enterprise programs
• Experience developing Ruby applications as a Principal/Senior Software Engineer
• Software development experience including: OOP, concurrency programming, design patterns, RESTful service implementation, Service Oriented Architecture, Test-Driven Development, Acceptance Testing, Transact-SQL, and SQL Server
• Experience creating tools to automate the deployment of an enterprise software solution to the cloud
• Strong object-oriented design and development experience
• Knowledge of design patterns and their implementation
• Multi-tier application design and development
• Multi-threaded design and development
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Agile or Lean Software Development experience such as Kanban, Scrum, Test-Driven Development, and/or Extreme Programming methodologies
• Experience using automated testing tools like RSpec, Capybara, Jasmine, Selenium, and/or other test automation tools
• Positive team player attitude with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated and willing to "do what it takes" to get the job done
• High degree of organizational skills Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High degree of self-motivation to learn new methodologies that will enhance job performance
• Ability to understand and influence the vision of program strategy
• Technical ownership of a specific solution area
• Leverage open source and other technologies and languages outside of the framework should the need arise and autonomously be able to make use of those decisions