Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

Currently searching for a software engineer to work with a multidisciplinary team to provide ingenious solutions to business problems using the latest technologies. You will practice and champion best practices throughout the SDLC process and mentor other engineers.

Requirements:

• At least five years commercial experience as a software engineer
• Strong experience in Ruby on Rails, Ruby and SQL
• Strong experience in using and developing restful APIs
• Strong experience with object-oriented programming principles
• You have worked and understand agile software development methodologies
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience
• Short courses to keep up to speed with modern development practices

Responsibilities:

• Develop high quality software. You will research, design and implement high quality software with a great bias towards efficiency, maintainability and extensibility.
• Collaboration. You will work closely with other engineers, product managers, business analysts, product designers and various other stakeholders across the organization to understand the problem and provide insightful input into how to design the best software solution
• Mentor other engineers. You will mentor other engineers and participate in code reviews and provide feedback to your peers
• Continuous improvement. You will advocate for and introduce improvements to our development, testing, CI, automation and architecture. This will include improving the engineering team’s coding best practices and processes
• Support deployed applications. We are always proactive in considering the experience of the customer. You will do the same by attending to and resolving issues experienced in production swiftly

Reference Number for this position is GZ60108 which is a permanent REMOTE position offering a cost to company salary of R800 per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on az.oc.egrem-e@zhtrag or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 28 Jan 13:27, Closing date 29 Mar