Back End Developer at Touch Inspiration

Job Description

As a Ruby on Rails developer, you’ll be responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Integration of data storage solutions.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.
• To show and integrate continuous innovation into your work.

Skills

• Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with testing frameworks such as minitest.
• Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
• An understanding of how APIs work and how they’re consumed.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful.
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code.
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools.
• Familiarity with continuous integration.

Additional Skills

• Able to communicate, collaborate and contribute.
• Able to leave meetings with clear objectives and tasks
• Capable of hitting daily deadlines
• Good analytical skills
• Keen ability to multi-task; self-starter
• Capable planner
• A strong vocabulary
• Teachable spirit
• Sense of humor