Senior Software Engineer (RoR)

Job Description:

• As aSenior Software Engineerat Onit, you will use your knowledge and experience as part of a team that designs and implements new features and APIs as part of the OnitX AppBuilder Platform Development team.
• The primary focus of this position will be on enhancing the engine that enables our Products team to build applications that we sell in the Legal Tech market.
• The ideal candidate will be able to work independently on either Front End or Back End development as well as demonstrate a willingness to learn to growth the breadth of their skills and become more of a full stack developer.
• The ideal candidate will understand the benefits of collaborative design and development and will be able to mentor more junior development and QA resources.
• The current tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript and PostgreSQL.
• We deploy to AWS.
• We are an agile software development shop and believe in automated testing.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, build and launch features for our products.
• Help to solve business problems including performance improvement of existing software.
• Evaluate emerging technologies continually to identify opportunities, trends, and best practices to strengthen development practices and improve productivity.
• Work closely with our designers and project management team to craft well thought out user experiences.
• Work closely with Product Management and provide analysis on complexity and effort required for completion of new features and initiatives.
• Estimate development tasks and meet deadlines in collaboration with the team.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience using current language(s) for web development.
• Demonstrated leadership in projects preferably including examples in:
• (Back-end) Dynamic languages such as Ruby on Rails,
• (Back-end) Static languages such as Java
• Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of the SQL language and relational databases. Experience with PostgreSQL is a plus.
• Demonstrated understanding of full cycle development leveraging Agile methodologies.
• Ability to work and develop in Mac/Linux environment.