Senior Ruby Backend Developer (West Coast, USA)

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  • Company Ignition
  • Employment Full-time
  • Location 🇺🇸 United States, Washington
  • Submitted Posted 3 weeks ago - Updated 2 hours ago

Company Description

Who we are:

Founded in 2013, Ignition is the leading revenue generation platform for accounting and professional services businesses to spark greater efficiency and profitability.

Ignition automates and optimizes proposals, billing, payments and workflows in a single platform that fits seamlessly into existing technology stacks.

With a vision to transform how professional services and their clients do business together, Ignition empowers 7,250+ businesses to reach their full revenue potential.

To date, Ignition customers have engaged over 1.7 million clients and generated US $8b in revenue via the platform.

Ignition’s global workforce spans Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines, US and the UK. 

Company Values:

  • We are better everyday
  • We work without ego
  • We are smarter together
  • We hero our customer

Role Location: 

This is a fully remote role however, candidates must be based in West Coast, USA (strong preference for candidates based in Colorado, Arizona, or Washington State). Please note that at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must have the legal right to work in the US without sponsorship.

 

Job Description

We’re looking for smart, talented and experienced team members that can take ownership, articulate their point of view and back their opinions with a well researched and knowledgeable stance.

The purpose of this role is to contribute to the ongoing improvement and development of our platform, through domain driven design and continuous deployment of high quality software code and help the team grow.

What you will be doing:

  • Compile and analyze data, processes, and code to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement

  • Collaborate with front-end developers and other team members, including customer-facing teams to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive code to enhance the user experience

  • Integration of data from various back end services and databases

  • API development and Integration of data from various back end services & databases

  • Recording data and reporting it to proper parties, such as clients or leadership

  • Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members

  • Developing back-end functionality and assisting the Lead developer

  • Providing guidance on projects, as needed

  • Participating in research, producing POCs, and evaluating new methodologies and technologies that improve quality, reliability, scalability, security, and performance of Ignition technology, architecture, and product

  • Actively participating in code reviews by providing constructive comments and sharing and adopting best practices, to improve codebase quality, efficiency, and security

  • Mentoring and guiding developers by providing quality coaching and guiding proper execution of their tasks

  • Committing to support a safe, mindful, and productive team environment, maintaining open, honest, and respectful communication

How we work:

  • Distributed team

  • Continuous Delivery

  • Code Reviews

  • Retrospectives

Our stack:

  • Ruby/Rails (using our own framework inspired by DDD)

  • JavaScript SPA using React.js with Styled Components

  • Postgres, Redis, AWS, Sidekiq

  • Testing is done with RSpec, and Cypress with Chrome Headless

  • CI/CD using CircleCI

 

Qualifications

  • Approx 5-7+ yrs experience in backend development, and must have recent experience with Ruby/Rails

  • Tech Stack: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq/Redis, Heroku

  • A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design

  • Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship

  • Experience with Git and GitHub or similar

  • Experience with PostgreSQL

  • Experience with background job processing

  • Experience with Message Queues

  • Comfortable working in the terminal

  • Proficiency within an editor of your choice

  • Experience working with profiling tools

  • Knowledge and familiarity with caching strategies, design patterns, cloud architecture and tools.

  • Consuming and integrating with third party APIs

Additional Information

Why join us:

Join our global SaaS scale-up company where we foster a collaborative, open, and transparent culture and work without ego. Our team comprises curious and intelligent colleagues who embrace challenges. Here's what we offer:

  • Employee stock options from day one
  • 20 days of accrued annual leave/vacation plus 10 wellbeing days to prioritize yourself and your loved ones
  • Additional paid day off to celebrate your birthday, along with volunteering leave
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits 
  • 401k employer matching
  • Annual education allowance reimbursement to support your professional development
  • Employee recognition program
  • Quarterly wellness allowance to invest in your personal wellness
  • Paid subscriptions to Headspace and LifeWorks EAP & Wellbeing Platform
  • Flexible working arrangements, supported by WFH reimbursement and technology allowance to ensure your safety while working from home
  • Personal tax return assistance (since we're in the accounting business!)
  • Paid parental leave

As we work towards pay transparency, your recruiter will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Ignition is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 Ignition is proud to provide employment and recruitment accommodations during the recruitment process. Once our team reviews your resume and contacts you if there is a fit, we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any questions, suggestions or required documents regarding accessibility in a different format, please contact [email protected]   

 

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