Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails
Summary
Builds and maintains Ruby on Rails server applications, writes RESTful APIs, and mentors junior engineers while ensuring security and performance.
Job Summary A Senior Software Engineer for Ruby on Rails is an associate at Creative Chaos who primarily develops server applications across various software platforms including writing RESTful APIs that are consumed by client applications. The engineer ensures functionality, security and performance of the server application aligns with the design and is completely bug-free. Senior engineers also mentor juniors and strengthen the team through training.
Job Duties And Responsibilities
- Analyze business requirements
- Estimate assigned tasks
- Write code and unit tests
- Collaborate with other team members
- Tune code for enhanced security and performance
- Maintain systems by fixing any existing issues
- Update issue tracking software
- Provide status updates
- Communicate with client
- Control versions of your code
- Research new technologies
- Lead a team of software engineers
- Mentor team members through training and guidance
- Upgrade skills and knowledge
- Evaluate candidates for open positions
Requirements
- BS degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or similar relevant field
- 3‑8 years of working experience in Ruby on Rails and its frameworks
- Extensive experience working with common gems in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem (Devise and Pundit in particular)
- Experience building large-scale production web applications with API interfaces
- Experience with performance challenges of a production RoR web application (e.g., stress testing and performance tuning)
- Strong understanding of the testing pyramid and comfortable implementing specs in each layer using the RSpec framework
- Ability to work effectively at all levels of the stack (Rails, Ruby, ES6)
- Familiarity with front‑end technologies (JavaScript, CSS and HTML)
- Strong understanding of SQL and experience in writing SQL queries
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, AWS and cloud technologies (including Docker and Kubernetes)
- Experience in Agile development methodologies, including Scrum
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Work From Home
- Health Insurance
- OPD
- Training and Development
- Life Insurance
- Exchange Program