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Software Engineer – Ruby
Sonian is looking for a highly motivated, goal-oriented individual who will be responsible for designing and developing the Web components for our cloud-based application. The candidate for this position will come with a deep knowledge of HTTP and REST, a solid understanding of Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and be strong with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Sonian Web applications front petabytes of data, so the ideal candidate will have experience with building scalable, secure, resilient, and highly distributed applications. Sonian praises well-written, maintainable code, so you must be well versed in object oriented design, design patterns, automated testing, concurrency, and systems architecture. You will be joining a fully remote team, so location is not important.
Responsibilities
Design and deliver features that meet the business needs of our customers while maintaining a state of the art user experience
Produce high quality software designs to support long term maintainability and extensibility of code
Deliver software that supports a highly available, fault tolerant SaaS applicaiton
Produce high quality and well-documented code
Deliver within an existing Agile methodology
Requirements
8+ years commercial software development experience, with at least 4+ years delivering user interfaces for web-based application
2+ years production Ruby and Ruby on Rails development
Distributed source control experience with Git
Strong organizational skills
Self-motivated and able to work independently
Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills
Good understanding of Software as a Service and “white-labeled” Rails apps
Solid knowledge and hands-on experience with Javascript, including jQuery and Ext JS
Proven track record building high-performance enterprise-grade systems that scale
Familiarity with cloud based offerings like Amazon’s EC2 &amp; S3 or Rackspace Cloud
US-based, capable of working in remote team
Bonus: Familiarity with and knowledge of Clojure
To apply please send a cover letter and your resume to REDACTED_EMAIL. Please provide links to your github account or open source projects.  Use subject line “Software Engineer, Ruby / Backend”.
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