Ruby on Rails Developer at Andela

Where You’ll Work 

Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in the world’s most talented software engineers.

What You’ll Do

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our clients around the world.
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Design, scope, and implement technical solutions that scale across multiple web applications
• Collaboratively define and prioritize projects and tasks
• Drive thoughtful conversations around technical issues and opportunities
• Review code and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback for your team and the community
• Triage, reproduce, and debug technical support requests, bugs, and feature requests reported by users in our Issues on our website.
• Provide compassionate technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others

Qualifications:

• Strong written communication skills
• High degree of empathy
• 5+ years experience as a full-time professional coder using Ruby on Rails.
• Experience team leading/management.
• Experience working asynchronously on a remote, distributed team (does not have to be professional experience - preferable)
• Ability to draw on both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs
• Experience building highly available services at scale

What You’ll Get

• Competitive compensation
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field 
• A chance to change the world for the better