Freelance - Solution Architect/Tech Lead (Ruby On Rails)

Job Description

• Lead a team of talented engineers who are driven by shipping high-quality code using Agile methodology
• Work closely with Product Owner and Business Analysts to provide inputs on the best way to prioritize business stories and technical tasks to achieve optimal development for the team.
• Champion software design and architecture best practices and provide guidance to developers in technical design and strategy.
• Providing estimates for stories during sprint planning with Business Analysts and Quality Engineers.
• Finding efficient and scalable solutions for challenging technical and functional problems, architecture design, development and driving our server-side forward.
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

Job Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in software development with min 5+ in RoR.
• Proven experience in developing large-scale web applications with RoR and MVC.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Development and Deployment experience in Linux /Amazon Cloud
• Full-stack developer expertise in server technologies of Java/NodeJs, web technologies in AngularJS/ReactJS and RDBMS/NoSQL Databases
• Skills for writing reusable Ruby libraries that may be used in expressive ways.
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful
• Proven experience with AJAX, JSON and web front end technologies.
• RSpec and TDD experience.
• Familiarity with GIT or other source control
• Understanding Application security including vulnerabilities and solutions
• Extremely strong with algorithms and data structures. Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Going above and beyond to solve a problem (technical or business)