Lead RoR and Cloud Developer

Job Summary:

The candidate will be part of the team focused on delivering Control Panel solutions for hosting. The Control Panels are APIs used to control the hosting environments. They need to be secure, have very high availability, be responsive, and handle errors well above all. That means working on distributed systems, ensuring proper downstream dependency management, recovery from failure, etc. The current hosting products serve a few million sites.

Who we are looking for...

• A highly motivated, success-driven engineer
• Someone ready to jump into a legacy codebase and transform it
• Someone who cares about the maintainability of code and optimizing for performance and scalability
• Someone willing to experiment with different approaches and technologies
• Someone ready to adopt languages/frameworks as necessary to get the job done

You will be...

• Writing and maintaining code in one of the languages - Ruby / Python
• Working towards a Unified solution for Control Panels across all hosting products
• Turning complex business objectives into simple and scalable solutions
• Using data and analytics to improve products and customer experience
• Tracking down the root cause of issues that come up
• Accountable for code quality, scalability, and testability
• Working collaboratively with a distributed team
• Participating in group code reviews

Your experience and skills should include...

• 8 to 10 years experience in software development
• 4+ years experience with at least one back-end technology and building APIs
• Experience with databases like MySQL, RDS
• Understanding of software security best practices
• Experience using build/task automation tools
• Experience with Linux shell commands
• Experience working with legacy systems - maintaining and deprecating
• Comfortable in all aspects of the agile development methodology
• Knowledge of AWS technologies
• Experience with highly scalable software solutions
• Experience working with containerized solutions
• Experience with Redis, ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ or similar

About Encora

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and qualifications, and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.