Ruby on Rails Developer (Remote) at Andela Nigeria

What You’ll Do

• Our Andelan Senior Software Engineers epitomize ownership. They take personal responsibility for Andela’s ability to continue to deliver value to our partners.

Specifically, you'll: 

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our partners around the world.
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.
• Act as role-model even in the most difficult and challenging situations, using constructive feedback, mentorship and universal respect.

Job Description
Your typical week would include:

• Collaborating with design, analytics, support, and product management to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can solve them
• Discussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems with engineering collaborators in Slack or Zoom
• Opening a Pull Request to implement the next most important feature or fix the most critical bug
• Trying to reproduce a reported bug and responding to issues we’ve received from the community
• Reviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback
• Working with your engineering manager in your one-on-one meetings to grow your team and career
• Talking with users to discover what they love and what their pain points are.

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
• 6+ 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)
• 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.