Position: Senior Software Engineer, FullStack - Ruby on Rails
Company: Bridge
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

OUR TEAM

The Whistle Server Engineering team is a group of engineers responsible for managing and maintaining a critical component of our backend infrastructure. Our goal is to help everyone pet parent like a pro by providing outstanding solutions to big data and IoT connectivity challenges, facilitating internal and external partnerships, and providing APIs to various client side applications.

HOW YOU’LL HELP EVERYONE PET PARENT LIKE A PRO

As the Sr. Software Engineer of the Whistle server team, you will be working at a fast paced agile

environment that is responsible for managing and scaling a core backend component of our distributed

systems platform. In this role, you will:

Lead features from start to finish defining requirements, scheduling, development, and deployment.
Mentor team members and help them excel at work
Manage server releases and pull requests using Git and Github
Maintain existing and new software design patterns to improve software consistency, maintainability, and quality
Design and implement RESTful APIs for mobile clients and IoT devices
Work with big data and help improve our data processing pipelines
This role will be working closely with our product, mobile, firmware, and DevOps teams and collaborate with our cross-brands such as Wisdom Panel, Pet Insight Project, and Vet Insight.
THE PRO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

As Kinship people, we have three pillars that set out how we aim to be--in our everyday work, and in how we approach each other. We call these our Cultural Pillars. In all of the roles that we hire for, we look for people who are Optimistic, Purposefully Inquisitive, and Open to All. And for this role, you’ll need these skills to knock it out of the dog park:

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

You Have Courage: a willingness to bring forth a new idea, engaging others across Kinship to support you, and taking risks and action will full accountability
You Learn at Pace: a consistent and fast work ethic to meet growth goals, and the ability to evolve and pivot quickly from what you’ve learned
You Value Difference: a genuine belief in inclusion and diversity is in your DNA, and it shows up in your work, and how you work.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

5+ years of professional experience as a Ruby on Rails developer designing, implementing, and delivering scalable and well tested solutions
2+ years of experience writing JavaScript and NodeJS applications
Experience working with large scale distributed systems
Fluent knowledge of software design and enterprise integration patterns as well as object oriented and functional programming paradigms
Extensive experience developing RESTful APIs and complete understanding of ROA style architectures
Working knowledge of CI/CD DevOps practices, GitHub, containers/orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code
Experience with relational database engines, SQL (Structured Query Language), query optimization techniques, and data modeling.
Ability to coach team members
A passion for testing and driving code through testing patterns
Knowledge of common application architectures such as clean architecture (Onion View), SOA, or Event Sourcing is a plus
Experience writing Python or Elixir applications is a plus
IoT and consumer electronics experience is a plus
Project description
Whistle - GPS Dog tracker and health monitor