Our client, a small online technology solutions provider founded in 1995 located in Spadina Rd and Queen St area of Toronto has engaged ROSS to help them recruit a contract Lead Ruby on Rails Developer. ROSS is a team of People Specialists helping companies align their People Strategy with their business growth. We provide contingency recruitment in addition to remote or onsite HR and Recruitment solutions such as Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Recruitment Augmentation.

This is a 6 - 12 month contract, must be available to work onsite downtown Toronto, but client is awesome with need to work from home flexibility.

Our client is currently looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails Developer. The successful candidate will play a central role in the design, development and delivery of a wide range of web applications and web services. You are outgoing, you love to share ideas and be around creative people. Come join our team and help build some amazing things.

Key Accountabilities:

Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle

Write clean, maintainable and efficient code

Design robust, scalable and secure features

Follow best practices (test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring, code standards)

Drive continuous adoption and integration of relevant new technologies into design

Manage multiple projects from concept through to completion

Rigorous attention to detail and personal organization

Professional and graceful under pressure and tight deadlines

Respectful and explicit communicator

Required Skills and Qualifications:
Must Have / Expert-Level Experience:

FullStack Developer

At least two years of professional experience of Ruby on Rails

4+ years professional software development experience

Rails 4+

BA/BS Computer Science or a technical/engineering degree

Unit testing (TestUnit, RSpec) experience

Automated integration testing (Cucumber, Webrat, Capybara, Selenium) experience

Deployment Technology (Capistrano)





GIT and SVN workflow

Rich browser-based development (JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, CoffeeScript, SCSS, AJAX) experience

The Rails asset pipeline and other optimization techniques

Secure APIs

Integration of CDN (RackSpace primarily, AWS for bonus points)

Advanced Linux Server Admin experience (Ubuntu preferebly)

Security best practice experience (database encryption, SSL, etc… )

Advanced Database Admin experience (mySQL, PostgreSQL) – distributed and/or clustered experience a bonus

Third party solution integration (i.e. Postmark, MailGun, Airbrake, Google, etc… )

Application servers (Phusion, Unicorn)

Background processing techniques (Sidekiq, Resque)

HA Environment/Systems

Key architecture experience (Database, Enterprise Applications, eCommerce)

Working Knowledge/Experience Of:

ElasticSearch/Lucene search systems

Front end responsive frameworks: Bootstrap and Foundation

Constant integration experience (i.e. Jenkins) a plus

Experience in Redis based data structure server: setup, integration and maintainance

JS based charting libraries (Google, HighCharts)

OpenERP experience a very strong asset

Working in Agile teams (refactoring, story writing and estimation)

Crontab and system/application task techniques (Whenever Gem experience a plus)

Software/Performance Monitoring Systems/technique

Nice to have(s):

Experience in interface design/prototyping and informational presentation a strong plus

PHP (and any accompanying frameworks)

Mapping Applications (Google Maps / Leaflet)

AngularJS

Attributes:

Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

Commitment to deadlines

Displays a positive and constructive attitude

Demonstrates an outstanding work ethic and sense of urgency to resolve issues quickly and effectively and to meet tight timelines

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Demonstrable interest in learning and adopting new tools and techniques

Flexible work/lifestyle options available.

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