Sr Ruby on Rails Engineer - REMOTE
Flexion

Job Description

Senior Ruby of Rails Full Stack Engineer

Why you want to work at Flexion:

We're looking for a Full Stack Engineer with extensive Ruby experience and an unwavering passion for working in autonomous, self-directed teams to build complex systems using lean, agile mindsets-this means delivering incremental business value with each sprint and enabling options at all scales. For this project, you and your team will be collaborating with the federal partners to build a data warehouse and streamline reporting processes, aiming to enhance operational efficiency.

At Flexion (an agile software company that's been delivering excellence for over 24 years), our company culture is built on autonomy, trust, and transparency. We empower teams to remain autonomous and self-directed by hiring people who can solve complex problems by functioning collaboratively-this means lending a hand and flexing your multi-skilled muscles (business application software engineering, database engineering, DevOps, security engineering, etc.) as needed. Every member within a cross-functional team is a leader who takes responsibility for the entire team's success, which mirrors the company's overall flat structure.

What the job looks like:

You'll be part of a multi-disciplinary, agile Data Enablement team tasked with improving and modernizing DevSecOps and data governance practices in government authentication systems. The team balances research, prototyping, Data consulting, and AWS cost management.

• Advance the state-of-the-practice for software engineering and Infrastructure as Code across Flexion and our clients
  
• Learn and analyze new technologies and industry best practices to identify suitability for adoption by the team and our clients
  

• Design, develop, document, and automate novel tools and infrastructure in enterprise-scale healthcare data systems that support multiple teams
  

• Swarming and pairing with your team to design, code, test, debug, deploy, and document software in an agile environment
  
• Tackle a wide variety of technical problems
  
• Exercise your full tool-belt of skills and experience
  

Why we want to hire you:

You thrive working in a dynamic environment and think design, and code with the knowledge that things will change. You want to work with team members that challenge you every day. You demonstrate an unwavering commitment to automated code coverage.

You have:

• 8+ years of application development experience
  
• A Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
  
• Production experience with Ruby on Rails
  
• Strong collaborative and communication skills
  
• A passion for learning new technologies and the ability to do so quickly
  
• Ability to write high-quality code efficiently
  
• Experience with Agile application development
  

• Knowledge and experience with several of the following:
  
• Experience building APIs using a microservices architecture.
  
• Bias towards test-first development practices like TDD and BDD.
  

• Nice to Have(s):
  
• Experience with automated unit testing, end-to-end testing, and smoke tests striving for 100% automated test coverage.
  
• Experience with AWS infrastructure components such as Lambda, EC2, ECS, ECR, RDS, DynamoDB, EMR, KMS, CloudFormation, SNS, API Gateway, etc.
  
• Working experience with container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  
• Bias towards build & pipeline automation, proactive monitoring, and shifting testing & security left with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Packer, CloudBees Jenkins, Nexus, Splunk, SonarQube, NewRelic, Nessus.
  
• Experience with application logging, monitoring, and alerting.
  
• Solid understanding of security best practices for API development and integration.
  

At Flexion, we live by these principles:

• Speak openly and honestly with your colleagues and clients about problems and proposed solutions
  
• Welcome and handle changing requirements and priorities with little or no warning
  
• Collaborate online in small groups most of the time
  
• Encourage simple and minimal solutions that keep options open
  
• Expect and vocally advocate for quality first
  
• Learn new practices and techniques as the situation demands
  
• Ensure the teams develop demonstrable software every week or two
  
• Do what needs to be done to deliver the product or project without ego or attitude
  
• Dig deep to find the root causes of problems so we can create the right solutions
  
• Relentlessly improve yourself, your team, and your processes
  

The most efficient way to reach our recruiting team is to submit your resume through the URL provided. If you have questions or would like more information about this job posting or if you'd like to know more about Flexion Inc. in general, please contact the dedicated tech recruiter at ‪(608) 352-0360.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

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Job Location

811 E. Washington Ave., Suite 400, Madison, Wisconsin

Position Type

Full-Time/Regular

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