Senior Back-End Developer

Description

Seeking Alpha is the leading platform for actionable stock market opinion and analysis, delivering high-quality insights to millions of investors. We are dedicated to providing advanced tools and data to help individuals and professionals make better investment decisions.

We are looking for a Senior Back-End Developer to contribute to the ongoing development of our product, enhancing the value it delivers to our subscribers. In this role, you will focus on building robust features and optimizing performance, ensuring that our paid users enjoy a seamless, reliable, and high-quality experience as they access exclusive content, advanced tools, and insights tailored to their needs.

Why should you come work with us?

• Awesome product: Our crowdsourced research and cutting-edge investing tools are transforming the way investors achieve their financial goals.
• Work-life balance: We work primarily from home and offer great perks, encouraging you to fully enjoy them.
• People-first culture: We view every employee as a long-term investment, providing continuous support, growth opportunities, and training.

This role is 100% remote, offering flexibility to work from home.

Responsibilities

• Develop API for modern cross-platform responsible SPA from the ground up.
• Participate in product design and planning discussions, contribute architectural ideas
• Develop and test new user-facing features.
• Write highly scalable, reusable, and testable code.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and performance.
• Collaborate with teammates and people from different departments to brainstorm, set targets, and devise solutions.

Requirements

• Experience in OOP and MVC design and development patterns. Good understanding of data structures and design patterns.
• 5+ years of back-end development experience in building large, complex, highly scalable web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework.
• Solid understanding of Ruby syntax, its nuances, and core concepts. Ability to write clean and readable code.
• Experience building APIs, including authentication, cleanliness, and role-based access permissions.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MySQL, ElasticSearch, CouchBase, Redis, etc.).
• Comfortable with source version control software (Git).
• Knowledge and understanding of server-side architecture best practices.
• Deep understanding of the HTTP protocol and networking.
• Knowledge or experience with Cloud computing technologies and environments (Amazon Web Services).
• Problem solver: Has the ability to break down complex requirements into actionable tasks.
• Impact-driven, user and business oriented.
• Strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and mindset of “get things done”.