Rails Back-End Technical Lead

Legit Fish Inc.

Legit Fish Inc.

Contractor
Boston, MA, USA
Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Job Description

Legit Fish seeks an experienced, senior-level, back-end, Rails/PostgreSQL developer to transform its seafood traceability platform into a highly scalable system.  With continued growth and traction of the service, this developer will take the extensive knowledge already learned from version one and transform it into a scaleable, highly automated system.

Successful candidates will be experienced technical leads who can take well-written, but short, requirements and execute the necessary changes, including:  tech approach, schema mods, code, tests, fixtures, stubs, api integrations, etc.  Comfort with graph theory is a benefit.  Also a plus if you have an interest in the global food supply chain.  Remote work is acceptable, but preferably in North America.

Tech Environment

Rails 6, Postgresql 12, Redis, React (front-end), Rails HTML for admin.  No graphdb yet – currently making postgres Common Table Expressions work.  Test coverage: MiniTest & Cypress and CI (Circle).  Currently deployed on Heroku.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain responsibility and ownership of back end system performance.
  • Lead all project work related to updates and improvements to the backend system.
  • Manage work of team support back-end system.
  • Ensure system quality and performance standards are met.
  • Lead and coach our project team in all aspects of ensuring a robust backend system.
  • Participate in the technical design of projects with clients.
  • Supervise and write efficient and reliable code; use best practices with our team.
  • Organize and participate in code reviews.
  • Set up unit and integration tests.

Technical Skills & Requirements

  • 3+ years of technical development experience with Rails projects and all related frameworks
  • Good SQL knowledge, especially Postgres.  CTE chops a major plus.
  • Good JavaScript (but this is not a front-end dev job)
  • Experience in Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and DevOps culture
  • Flexibility and motivation, quest for constant learning
  • Excellent problem solving and debugging skill
  • Comfort working in startup environment
  • Good with non-technical client interaction

Benefits

  • Contract position with potential to transition to hire
  • Salary commensurate with experience with equity available over time
  • Opportunity to work in a mission driven organization focused on seafood sustainability and local economy

Application details:

Send your resume and cover letter to: careers@legitfishinc.com

Have a code sample available and be ready to talk about a significant project you have managed.

Legit Fish Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.