Job Description

Responsibilities

• Practical experience with REST and JSON APIs, and an understanding of how to build applications that serve and consume these sorts of APIs

Requirements

• 3+ years of front end development at a high traffic consumer web site and 6+ years of software development experience
• Must have experience building real-world Rails applications with Rails version 3.0.x or later, including Rails conventions for code organization and deployment
• Strong understanding of the MVC design pattern and minimum 2 years of experience using open source tech stack (e.g. Ruby on Rails, Python) in a commercial application and web site development
• Familiarity with Asynchronous message queues and worker frameworks (e.g
• Sidekiq, Resque) and experience in using such a framework in one or more real-world applications
• Hands-on experience using unit-test frameworks and test automation tools/techniques in the development process
• Passionate about creating world-class consumer web experiences for our consumers, customers, and partners
• Highly productive, self-motivated, creative, with excellent communication skills
• Committed to learning to stay current on relevant technologies and proactively suggest architecture changes and new coding practices
• Experience writing applications using Test Driven Development with frameworks like RSpec, Jasmine
• Hands-on, commercial Node.js development is a definite asset
• Knowledge of best practices in designing and architecting localized applications
• Solid knowledge of OO design
• Experience with performance optimization for high-traffic web applications
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Strong sense of how to make features as seamless, intuitive, and high-performing as possible for users
• Ability to effectively translate business needs to technology solutions