E-S-NODEJS-ROR-4267 Senior Node.js Ruby on Rails Developer

Job Description

The customer is the online privacy company that develops easy-to-use tools for consumers and businesses to control what personal information companies, third parties, and other people see about them online.
Project:

Project Team:
The current team is distributed between US and India, and the Team Lead is expected to cover these time zones. The main team will be based in Europe and consist of up to 10 members.

Project Tech Stack:
● Services with varying degrees of interdependence and rich data interaction
● Backend: Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, Java (SpringBoot)
● Frontend: React, Angular
● Databases: MySQL on RDS, DynamoDB, Table Storage
● Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes on EKS, Helm, Terraform
● Monitoring: OpenSearch, Kibana, Amazon CloudWatch
● Process: Light Agile, 2-week iterations

The main technology is Node.js, but there is a migration from RoR to Node.js, so Ruby-knowledge will be required as well.
Responsibilities:

● Own features from technical design through completion
● Initially, focus on supporting data provider site integration harnesses implemented in RoR and NodeJS. Reimplement the obsolete RoR integrations leveraging NodeJS
● Maintain granular monitoring for site jobs and internal tool errors; insert logging of errors into feature code; design new monitoring processes together with the rest of the team; build dashboards to provide comprehensive overviews and end-to-end diagnoses; maintain threshold-based alerts from the metrics
● Research the ways to accommodate the application needs and optimize the DB structure
● Support and review the data schema architecture and design
● Develop and optimize the application data interaction

Responsibilities after a quarter year of work:
● Contribute to the strategic technology decision-making process
● Provide support for their area, including systems that are not their core focus
● Maintain company-wide and regional data compliance at the application level
● Manage institutional technical knowledge. Conduct technology workshops; evangelize and review the recommended practices.

Requirements:

● 3+ years of NodeJS programming experience; being capable of making the way around Ruby on Rails and Java projects (2+ years of experience)
● Being able to produce scalable and resilient designs, clean code
● Ability to maintain and improve written documentation; effectively communicate ideas in a written form
● Ability to communicate effectively in an asynchronous, distributed setting
● Ability to validate assumptions and get clarification on tasks up front to minimize the need for rework
● Understanding how their work fits into the larger project and identifying the problems with requirements
● Experience with distributed cloud-native systems and data-intensive processing
● Capability of getting up to speed with the existing systems and repositories through
code analysis and debugging; making steady progress without much technical guidance
● Capability of prioritizing tasks; avoiding getting caught up in unimportant details
● Being a lifetime learner who is eager to keep up with the progress of technology
● Ability to give timely, helpful feedback to peers and managers; solicits feedback from others and strives to find ways to improve

Skills:

JavaScript NodeJS RoR Java distributed cloud-native systems data-intensive processing