Position: Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Company: Ciklum
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer to join our team on a full-time basis.

About the Project:

clickworker.com is Europe’s leading Crowdsourcing provider. More than 2.000.000 clickworkers work and earn money on our platform. Our clients value the quality and throughput with which their projects are solved. We are a young and motivated team of 25 members, located in Essen, Germany with clients in Germany and the USA. We love technology, open-source software and like pragmatic approaches and teamwork to master challenges. Candidates will play a vital role to extend our development team in Kyiv to advance our Rails-based platform to the next level.

Responsibilities:
- Back-end development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment (cloud-based platforms, microservice architecture, etc.)
- Taking part in the decision-making process of application architecture design, solution development, architecture and code review
- Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/updates to the solution specification
- Design and implement a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc)
- Proactive position in solution development, process improvements
- Working in an international distributed team in an Agile environment
-Communicate with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders
-Delivering the product roadmap and plannings
- Following coding standards, software best practices and writing highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC
 
Requirements:
- Experience in software development for more than 5 years
- Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
- Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID, TDD, etc.)
- Database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL)
- Code testing practices
- Algorithms & data structures
- Application design patterns
- Conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)
- Authentication and authorization flows, best practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)

Excellent knowledge and experience in Ruby on Rails (more than 4 years)
Practical commercial experience with:
- REST API development
- Web application frameworks, Testing frameworks, ORM
- RDBMS (e.g MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)
- Messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Active MQ, Google Pub/Sub)
- Version control systems (GIT)
- Docker
- Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
- Builders
- Experience with “NoSQL” data backends (MongoDB)
- Experience with Linux and Cloud platforms (AWS)
- Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap

Experience with:
- Agile software processes and technologies
- Code Review process
- Refactoring process

- Fluent or Upper-Intermediate English
 
Desirable:
- Understanding of orchestration and containerisation (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker Swarm)
- Knowledge in Deployment patterns
- Practical commercial experience with:
NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB)
- Experience with Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch, Azure Search, Apache Solr)
- Provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
- Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)
- Experience with TDD environments (RSpec, Minitest, Capybara, Selenium)
- Experience with web architecture at scale (20krpm and above)
- Experience solving logistical problems with software
- Monitoring, alerting approaches
- Microservices architecture, SOA
- Cloud computing platforms
- Integration with 3rd party solutions
- Experience with AngularJS is a plus

What's in it for you:

Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance, Mental Health programs, as well as financial and legal consultations

Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy licence, language courses and company-paid certifications

Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally

Flexibility: choose how you want to work – a 100% remote or on-site in our offices. Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just don’t miss your regular team stand-up

Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfill your potential

Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients

Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events