Ruby Software Engineer and Wizard

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Detail information about job Ruby Software Engineer and Wizard. Terms and conditions vacancy

Our www.chorescout.com platform is receiving a lot of demand locally and internationally and its putting pressure on our Ruby platform to grow concurrently in terms of all the "illities" 

As our Ruby "Go To" you'll be involved in all aspects of product lifecycle from conception to delivery.  For the right people there will be the opportunity to get engaged in customer facing roles with the possibility of travel both locally and internationally.

What we want

First and foremost you have an engineering mentality. You don't just know how to hack code, you know how to design great platforms with an engineering mindset. When we ask you about design patterns, big O notation and idempotent services you'll come straight back at us with great answers rather than glazing over.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby software
• Craft secure RESTful APIs
• Work with the product and design team to understand end-user requirements and use cases, then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automation
• Contribute to product feature planning sessions
• Contribute to process optimisation

Tech Skills

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries for testing (RSpec, Capybara, Factory Girl, Cucumber, etc.), authentication (Devise, Authlogic), authorisation (CanCan, Declarative Authorization), etc.
• Great understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances and the ability to write clean, readable Ruby code
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Experience writing automated tests, i.e. unit tests, integration tests, UI tests, etc.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and SASS
• Familiarity with software design concepts such as MVC, Mocking, ORM, and REST
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Proficient with Git and JIRA
• Familiarity with development tools such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc.
• Some experience with cryptography as it applies to SSL, HMACs and secure storage.

Soft Skills

Just as important to us as your technical skills, we also want :

• Curiosity: we love nerdy stuff and the people who care enough to build it. Tell us all about your side projects, your automated arduino based cat-feeder, or your home made drone.

• Fantastic communicators: of course we want great written and spoken english but beyond that we expect you to ask questions, challenge the status quo and engage in robust dialogue.

• Great creativity: we're looking for that great blend between artist and engineer, scientist and poet.
• Awesome energy - we want fun, enthusiastic types that want to join the mobile, cloud, social media revolution

What we offer

• A great, friendly team environment
• A cool office in Manly seconds from the beach
• A startup atmosphere where everything is possible
• A place where your work *will* make a difference.
• A $60K-$90K package depending on experience and skill
• Flexible working hours