Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Ruby on Rails & React) — USA
About the position NextLink Labs is seeking a motivated Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our Custom Software Development consulting team. A successful person in this role will be tasked with building and maintaining web applications for our clients and will also possess a strategic mindset to contribute internally to improving our consulting practice.
Responsibilities
- Build end-to-end features for client applications using Ruby on Rails and React
- Make pragmatic architecture decisions to alleviate technical debt in legacy applications
- Engage in technical conversations with clients to understand their pain points and how best to solve them
- Mentor junior developers and assisting the team in ongoing efforts to establish internal best practices to elevate our standards of excellence
- Work with other NextLink engineers to architect and implement software solutions
- Communicate directly with clients to give demonstrations and receive feedback
- Review legacy software applications to identify and remediate technical debt
- Work in an agile team environment with weekly stand ups
- Engage in code reviews of your teammates' work
- Contribute to internal NextLink Labs documentation and code templates
- Engage in thought leadership through blog posts, webinars, and other marketing materials
- Assist Sales and Marketing by joining scoping calls and providing technical input
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building web applications, with strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails and React or equivalent frameworks
- Ability to work independently and take ownership in a variety of software engagements
- Ability to scope individual features and full software projects based on client requests
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with the ability to build buy-in, facilitate compromise, and guide client expectations
- Strong unit-testing and debugging abilities (RSpec/Minitest, Jest/RTL)
- Proficient understanding of version control systems (Git)
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Experience with APIs (REST/GraphQL), relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), and background jobs (Sidekiq/Active Job)
Nice-to-haves
- Experienced with DevOps tooling (AWS, Terraform, Docker) and observability platforms (Sentry/Datadog/Grafana)
Benefits
- Competitive salary with bonus structure
- Remote-first culture, flexible work schedule, and autonomy to do your best work.
- Healthcare (Medical, Dental, and Vision) and 401k
- Paid parental leave
- Responsibility and autonomy at a growing company
- The opportunity to build something big and exciting
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