Junior Ruby on Rails Engineer Integrations

Blue Sky eLearn is hiring a fully remote Junior Ruby on Rails Engineer to support the Integrations Team for our Path LMS product. As an Engineer on the Integrations Team, you will bring technical expertise, a friendly attitude, and an investigative mindset to manage and support our technical integration projects. You must think methodically, communicate frequently, document thoroughly, and act proactively to ensure our platform is integrated tightly with our customers systems and 3rd party databases as well as migrate data from previous providers.

Youll be joining the team as a Junior Ruby/Rails Engineer who has some experience with all layers of the dev stack including QA. You are familiar with aspects of API Development, Partner Integration and API Testing including back-end server data management. Youre comfortable with Agile and Lean Methodologies, continuous delivery, code reviews, TDD/BDD, and pair programming.

This is a 100% remote, full-time salaried position averaging 40 hours per week. Candidates must be located in the United States.

A Little About Our Architecture

• Ruby / Rails
• Postgresql 12 / Redis / MongoDB
• Sidekiq / Kafka / Karafka
• Memcache
• Elasticsearch
• AWS / Terraform
• Docker / Kubernetes / Qovery
• Datadog / Sentry / Cloudwatch for APM observability, logging and error tracking
• Atlassian suite of productivity and project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, StatusPage)
• Github / CircleCI for source control and build pipelines
  

What Youll Be Doing

You will work throughout the entire client lifecycle and must develop strong working relationships with our onboarding, technical account management, and engineering teams to ensure customer expectations are met and issues are resolved proactively. Youll help document existing customer integrations, and support and manage integration-related issues and upgrades as they come up. Additionally, you will help support QA and quality for the Integrations team.

Specifically, you will be:

• Supporting the use and implementation of our platform RESTful APIs.
• Actively monitoring and troubleshooting connections with third-party systems and prioritizing bugs and enhancements.
• Writing and maintaining technical documentation for a wide range of integration and technical processes.
• Completing multiple priorities and projects (internally and externally) in a fast-paced environment.
• Creating microservices to support new features in Path LMS which are scalable, well tested, and conform to industry and company standards.
• Contributing to all phases of the software development lifecycle, including design reviews, writing user stories, reviewing code submitted by other engineers, and automated testing (we use Rspec).
• Serving as the primary QA and quality point of contact for the Integrations team.
• Helping us to add value to the software via continuous improvements in processes, procedures, and implementation and iteration of product features.
• Collaborating effectively with engineers, project managers, designers and QA in an agile (Scrum) environment by participating in project scoping and planning, including shaping and estimating of project tasks.
• Participating in on-call duties for production issues. Dont worry you wont be on-call all the time for all the things. We simply ask that you be included in the rotation.
  

What We Need (the must-have requirements):

• 2+ years of professional software development experience with at least 1 year of experience building and supporting REST APIs via Ruby on Rails (version 5-7).
• Great OO skills, including strong design pattern and MVC knowledge.
• Experience integrating applications and microservices with third-party APIs using JSON, SOAP, SAML, XML-RPC.
• Experience using and interacting with applications and microservices utilizing OAuth and JWT authentication schemes.
• Experience building and/or maintaining microservices utilizing RESTful JSON interfaces.
• Basic understanding of API development best practices including; endpoint versioning, request throttling, API security standards and building high availability, scalable APIs that can serve large volumes of traffic.
• Basic experience with building and improving SQL database schemas (we currently use PostgreSQL).
• Knowledge of software best practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment, TDD / BDD using Rspec/Capybara (or similar).
• Experience using Git and GitHub.
• Experience using the Atlassian suite of software development tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.).
• Experience working on an Agile/Scrum team.
• Basic experience performing manual QA in support of engineering teams and working with quality best practices.
• Understanding of emerging AI technologies and toolsets in support of engineering best practices such as GitHub Copilot Chat, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.
  

What Were Looking For (the intangibles that often dont get mentioned):

• Comfortable working as a member of a small (3-5 folks) cross-functional team.
• Can work independently with minimal oversight.
• Have a strong sense of ownership over our code base, architecture, and product.
• Bring new ideas and a fresh perspective to the table; provide input and opinions on security, SOLID design practices, and processes and procedures which make software teams successful.
• Be able to absorb feedback, take direction, and operate within boundaries without ego.
• Think critically and find repeatable solutions for issues and challenges.
• Have excellent time management skills and consistently deliver exceptional work.
• Keep the focus on learners, clients, and internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrate vision, courage, empathy, and accountability.
• Be authentic, engaged, and endlessly collaborative.
  

Our Values

• Drive Excellence Rise to any challenge with relentless drive and spirit.
• Own Your Path Be the entrepreneur of your success.
• Lead With Empathy Promote a culture of listening and celebrating kindness.
• Inspire Happiness Strive to inspire and motivate everyone around you.
• Just Be You Be an integral part of a diverse, people-first organization.
  

Salary and Benefits

• A competitive salary depending upon your experience, skills, and alignment with our needs.
• The opportunity to make a big impact in a small, but growing SaaS company as a member of a supportive and encouraging team.
• A caring, supportive, respectful manager with an engineering background and a people-first approach.
• Fully remote, flexible work environment. If you live in the San Diego area, or come to visit, youll get access to our headquarters if you prefer hybrid work or you want to meet some of your team members in-person. This is entirely optional
• The all-important medical, dental, and vision benefits. We pay 100% of the employees medical and dental premium with the option to upgrade to premium plans and add dependent coverage.
• 100% employer paid short-term disability, life, and AD&D insurance.
• A 401K Program with employer match to help support your long-term financial plans.
• 120 hours annually of paid time off (rolls over take your unused time with you if you leave), 11 holidays, 5 sick days, paid bereavement, and paid parental leave. Additionally, we provide 2 paid volunteer days so you can support the causes you care about.
• Annual professional development reimbursements and free access to a wide variety of tech-related courses on a service like Udemy.
  

About Blue Sky eLearn

Founded in San Diego, CA, Blue Sky eLearn provides a full range of learning technologies that include a proprietary learning management system and a complete set of virtual event services. We help organizations capture educational content from either live or virtual settings, then manage and deliver that content to a global audience through our learning platform.

We facilitate thousands of live web events each year for our clients. We currently house over 100,000 learning modules and have electronically issued over two million certificates to online learners.

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