Position: Strong Middle/ Senior Ruby/RoR developer
Company: Speed&Function
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

We are looking for a passionate engineer who possesses a strong drive to innovate and collaborate with others. We have a variety of projects that require Ruby on Rails developer’s support. Our projects include one of the world’s top 10 traffic web properties, as well as a variety of smaller apps.

This is both: a client-facing role that requires good communication skills and role with responsibility for managing and improving our internal infrastructure. Additionally you will be helping with estimates.

Required Technical Skills
Strong knowledge in last Ruby on Rails releases (5, 6).
Ability to set up a server in the Heroku service.
Solid experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
All modern development practices: git, review, scrum, wireframes.
Experience with ActiveAdmin and Grape frameworks
Javascript expertise (Node.js, React, or Vue) it will be a huge plus.

Other Skills Required
 
English - upper-intermediate and higher.
Position includes direct interaction with US-based native English speaker clients. You should be comfortable communicating complexities of your challenges and negotiating scope to meet client goals.

What’s Important for Us

Responsiveness and communication:
stay online, respond to questions, report and discuss blockers on standups and other Scrum events
be ready to hop on Video conference calls and to screen-share your progress

Engineering excellence:
Understand the project paradigm - both on technical and business sides, and make sure you can support it, while also testing all your work to minimize defects
achieve high code quality

Self-management excellence:
Ramp up on Agile best practices, especially the Scrum framework
Collaborate with colleagues both internally and externally: internally with other engineers, QA, and managers; externally with engineers, designers, and managers on the client-side
Track all your activities in a time tracker
Try to pick your hours to be available for collaboration during your colleagues and your client’s work hours, which typically span from 5 am to 5 pm EST
Collaborate with your lead to develop your growth plan

Interview steps

- HR interview (30-40 minutes).
- Technical interview (up to 1 hour, partially in English).
- Job Offer.

About the Company

At Speed & Function, we are a team of passionate individuals who practice the art of custom software. We help take product ideas to market through best practices in UX and engineering, led by product strategy and management. We deliver a full range of refinement, from prototype to MVP to enterprise-grade applications, having released over 300 products in over 10 years. We bring software and collaboration best practices enjoyed by large organizations to the open market at below-enterprise rates. Speed & Function has built and operated several SaaS platforms. Our advanced expertise is in UI engineering/front-end and: we build high-performance, secure and accessible interfaces that are easy to use across all mainstream devices. "Speed" in our name stands for performance. Risk management is an integral component of each product we work on, which helps us deliver significantly above average success rates to our clients. We are striving to become a deliberately developmental organization (DDO / growth culture).

Our flexible, transparent, and proactive approach to communication, sets us apart from others in our field. Over the past 11 years we've continued to refine and master this practice, earning us our reputation as one of the strongest web development and UI engineering shops in the Philadelphia area.

Our mission is to finalize a unique collaboration framework that's relevant to 21st-century challenges and allows delivering both state-of-the-art technology solutions and amazing collaboration experience.

We are a distributed team with headquarters in Philadelphia, USA, and a variety of locations in Europe, primarily in Ukraine and Montenegro. Most of us currently work from home.

Currently, there are over 40 of us: mostly engineers, but we also have people who do administration, business development, finance, and HR.