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Digital financial platform for the Everyday American.
Staff Engineer
Location
Illinois
Posted
208 days ago
Salary
$140K - $200K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Engineer
NinjaHoldings
• Provide architectural leadership across a number of interdependent engineering teams, systems, business departments. • Connect multiple independent systems to provide discoverable, visible, and clean customer data across marketing, operations, analytics, and product teams • Partner with business stakeholders to improve the tech stack for all the business needs, including but not limited to: data governance, reporting, and site performance analytics • Level up your teammates’ technical design and Ruby on Rails skillset • Contribute to architecture design and code reviews for all key application functional components • Provide critical thinking, technical innovation and attention to detail when serving as a trusted advisor and mentor to your team • Support QA, verification and validation activities to ensure system quality, functionality and performance • Code new features • Code bug fixes alongside your team when needed
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software development with a focus on designing systems architecture, which includes hands on experience writing code or building infrastructure.
- 8+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails
- Demonstrated experience contributing in an Agile and TDD work environment building SaaS applications in the cloud (AWS)
- Experience leading projects from inception to completion and have mentored other engineers
- Solid understanding of building modern web apps at scale
- Experience in building well-documented API's and third-party integrations
- Deep understanding of API design and best practices
- Data driven, analytical, strong communicator, who understands the big picture, but understands the importance of every detail
- Natural problem solver who starts from the why, and uses first principles to get to a meaningful what and how
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Flexible, remote work
- Fun, fast-paced work environment
- Dynamic start-up culture
- Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
- Equal opportunity employer
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