Position: Middle/Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer (Full Stack)
Company: Faria Education Group
Experience required: 3y
Category: Ruby
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Faria is a leader in international education systems & services offering an integrated systems suite across learning, admissions, school-to-home, and online courses & study services to over 10,000 schools and 4 million students in 155 countries. Faria’s multi-disciplinary team of over 240 operates globally across nine offices.

The OpenApply division of Faria Education Group is looking for an Intermediate Ruby on Rails Engineer (Full-Stack). The role will be heavily involved with new feature developments and maintaining the existing application.

OpenApply is an admissions management system & CRM serving over 600 of the world’s leading international & independent schools, supporting the applicant from discovery & enquiry to admissions & enrolment.

We are looking for proactive people, team players passionate about programming in this language, and oriented to provide the best experience to the end-user. This is an excellent opportunity for those professionals looking to develop in one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry!

ABOUT THE ROLE
- New features development based on the provided specifications.
- Maintaining the existing applications (bug fixes, migration to new Rails versions, UI refresh).
- Interacting with the other teams (within the company and external) regarding the integration and API of the application.

ABOUT YOU

Skills & Competencies
- 3+ years of experience of Ruby on Rails software development.
- Ruby on Rails (versions 6).
- RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL is a plus);
- Frontend (HTML, CSS3, jQuery, CoffeeScript, SASS, Bootstrap);
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, familiarity with the concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful;
- Automated testing (RSpec), continuous integration;
- English: Intermediate or upper, verbal and written.

OOP
- Demonstrating the deep understanding of OOP and using it effectively

Coding
- Creating clear, consistent, well commented, highly maintainable, and accurate code that matches agreed conventions.
- Verifying code changes made.

Automated testing
- Writing unit and integration tests according to the chosen environment and methodology.

Version Control
- Working with version control systems.
- Committing verified changes with comprehensive comments.
- Carefully checking diffs before code commit.
- Splitting code commits according to the atomic chunk of functionality.
- Resolving conflicts in the codebase.

Optimization
- Using special tools for analyzing product performance, resource usage to determine product bottlenecks.

Refactoring
- Refactoring sub-systems (modules) in the scope of defined architecture

BENEFITS
- Compensation: Competitive salary and opportunities for career development.
- Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, and COVID-19 coverage for you and dependents.
- Vacation: We support work/life balance and offer generous both paid Annual and Family leave.
- Wellbeing Resources: Faria encourages team members to lead a healthy lifestyle and covers recurring monthly Health & wellness benefits.
- Learning: We encourage continued education and will help cover the cost of professional training, conferences, workshops, or certifications.
- Team: Friendly atmosphere, group activities, and corporate events.
- Equipment: Retina MacBook Pro or another laptop of your specification, peripherals, and displays included.