Sr. Back-end Ruby on Rails Developer Ruby on Rails, MySQL, APIs, and more

SK Intertainment is seeking a Senior Back-end Engineer with extensive experience in and mastery of Ruby on Rails to join our growing team. You'll jump right onto the team, instantly contributing and shipping code. Each Sprint you'll be a part of solving complex business requirements, maintaining current applications, and shipping code out to highly trafficked servers. If you're interested in creating and growing exciting products in the entertainment and pop culture space, we'd love to hear from you!

Who You Are:

• Self-Starter: You take initiative, meet deadlines, and creatively solve problems.
• Student: You learn constantly through reading, meet-ups, etc., and apply best practices whenever possible.
• Teacher: You not only command programming fundamentals and concepts, but can also explain design patterns in developing OOP.
• Craftsman: You strive to create code that is tested, maintainable, readable, and re-usable.
• Versatile: You have relevant experience in a wide range of technologies.

Must Haves:

• Highly skilled in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Data modeling and database design
• Building and integrating with APIs
• Ecommerce and billing processor integrations
• Application & Database architecture
• Rspec testing

What You Will Work On:

• Integrating with third party APIs
• Legacy Billing and Authentication Systems
• Authoring RSpec Tests to improve confidence levels
• Data design and application architecture
• Solving a variety of complex problems by utilizing your experience
• Building highly performant queries and code

What We Use:

• Our backend stack: Ruby 2 , Rails 3.2‐4, RSpec, MySQL (MariaDB), Capistrano, ElasticSearch, git, Unicorn, Puma, Nginx
• Applications: Slack, GitLab, New Relic, Sentry, and GitLab CI
• We practice Agile / Scrum product development. We use JIRA, host daily stand ups, and work in 2‐week sprints
• We're Mac users and primarily work remote

Bonus Points:

• Data analysis and visualization
• Debugging experience during outages
• Experience contributing to a high performing Agile Team
• DevOps Experience

When you apply please include

• A little about yourself, what you're interested in, what you've been doing with regard to code
• A link to your github account (and/or or relevant code samples and contributions)
• A resume and personal website if you have one