Senior Ruby on Rails Architect

Crossover specialize in finding, testing, assembling and managing cloud-based Ruby teams. Crossover is currently in 108 different countries and is one of the fastest growing cloud talent marketplaces.

The Senior Ruby on Rails Architect role is the senior level of our technical positions and requires an expert-level understanding of Ruby on Rails and related technologies. This position is a hands-on leadership role. You will need a startup mindset, wearing multiple hats from lead architect to senior software engineer on the most complex elements of the product. You will also be a technical team leader and solution evangelist.

In the role, you will be creating solutions architecture, algorithms, and designs that scale to the customer's enterprise/global requirements. It’s your responsibility to ensure that the customers are blown away by the technical differentiation and quality of the product. Though we like to remove most of the management overhead for our Senior Architects to let you focus on the key technical solutions - you will be a peer-leader of a team of architects and developers to apply software engineering best practices and implement automations across all elements of solution delivery. * Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code * Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications * Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems * Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering * 4+ years experience with Ruby on Rails development and architecture * A ruthless commitment to quality: must write unit testing on both backend and front end * Extensive problem solving skills * An ability to communicate clearly regarding complex issues (in English) * Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances * Understanding of functional programming style in Ruby * Skills for writing reusable Ruby libraries or gems that may be used in expressive ways * Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and SOLID principles * Able to work in a dev-automation environment with some source control, continuous integration/delivery systems * Experience with modern Javascript Frameworks (Ember.js, React, AngularJS) * Good understanding of HTML and CSS, including CSS pre-processors and responsive web design * Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful APIs * Working experience with RSpec and Cucumber test frameworks * Solid understanding of RDBMS * NoSQL experience is a plus