Rails Full Stack Engineer
Company: Assurant
Location: Naperville
Posted on: July 16, 2021
Job Description:
Assurant Labs has cultivated a fast-paced,
Agile development environment where creativity and teamwork are
paramount.
In this role, you will work closely with multiple
product teams to create web and mobile client applications to serve
customers with an engaging, dynamic user experience. We have seen
people thrive in this role from a variety of backgrounds, but we
work mostly in Ruby on Rails and React Native. This role is focused
more on server development, so Rails experience is a plus, but not
a requirement.
Responsibilities include solving problems,
experimenting, and building features that we measure for value to
our users. Candidates must have strong communication skills, the
ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently, sound judgment, and
the ability to be productive in a fast-paced, team-oriented
environment.
- Work in a collaborative environment by occasional
pair and/or mob programming
- Work closely with client developers to architect
high-throughput systems
- Communicate with Engineering Managers and Product
Owners to plan and prioritize work and design technical
solutions
- Work in a cadence of two-week sprints with daily
stand-ups and bi-weekly retrospectives
- Conduct design and code reviews
- Make disciplined use of source control and bug
tracking systems
- Grow subject matter expertise in programming,
product, and platform
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge
cases, usability and general reliability
- Identify and resolve complex production
issues
- Collaborate with designers, content developers, and
other software, site reliability, and QA engineers on
cross-functional software products
- Document best practices and help create a knowledge
base
- Hands-on knowledge of version control systems such
as Git
- Ruby experience, or similar dynamic scripting
language experience
- Rails experience, or similar web framework
experience
- Experience with templating frameworks (e.g. Haml,
ERb)
- Experience consuming and maintaining RESTful
APIs
- Experience with MySQL and relational database
design
- A strong foundation in object-oriented or
functional programming
- Ability to demonstrate technical know-how through
individual contributions, pair programming exercises, and
architectural designs
- A disciplined approach to development, testing, and
quality assurance
- Ability to reason with and adapt to evolving
development tasks and priorities
- Strong communication skills to create a productive
communication environment with team members and
stakeholders
- Experience and familiarity with Cloud Architecture
(such as AWS or Azure)
- Experience with testing frameworks such as RSpec
and Cucumnber
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with Docker and/or
Kubernetes
- Experience with the Serverless framework for AWS
Lambdas
- Experience instrumenting applications with an
analytics framework like Google Analytics or
Mixpanel
- Experience with React Native
development
- Willingness to participate in mentoring and skills
transfer among team members
- A continuous learning mindset that keeps you
current on development best practices and trends
- Desire for a deep technical understanding for the
problems at hand
- Ability to balance trade-offs between speed and
quality based on business priorities
- Technical leadership skills with the ability to
resolve ambiguity in requirements
Keywords: Assurant, Naperville , Rails Full Stack Engineer, Other , Naperville, Illinois
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