Senior Backend Developer (RoR) in Seeking Alpha

Seeking Alpha islooking for aSenior Backend (Ruby onRails) developer tojoin the R&Dteam. The position is100% remote, work from home.Why we’re agreat company towork for? Seeking Alpha isthe leading online destination for engaged investors. Wehave anawesome product. Our crowdsourced research and cutting-edge investing tools are helping nearly 300,000 paying subscribers exceed their financial goals.Wecare about work-life balance: Wework primarily from home, provide lots ofperks, and insist that you enjoy them.Weinvest inpeople. Weconsider each employee along-term investment, and wesee value incontinuously nurturing and training our teammates.Responsibilities Develop API for modern cross-platform responsible SPA from the groundup.Participate indesign and planning discussions, and contribute architecture ideas.Develop and test new user-facing features.Write highly scalable, reusable, and testable code.Optimize application for maximum speed and performance.Collaborate with other team members.Requirements Experience inOOP and MVC design and development patterns. Good understanding ofdata structures and design patterns.5+years ofback-end development experience inbuilding large, complex, highly scalable web applications using the Ruby onRails framework.Solid understanding ofRuby syntax, its nuances, and core concepts. Ability towrite clean and readable code.Familiarity with concepts ofRESTful.Experience building APIs, including authentication, cleanliness, and role-based access permissions.Experience with SQLor NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MySQL, ElasticSearch, CouchBase, Redis, etc.).Experience with Bloomberg, Capiq, orsimilar systems ispreferred.Comfortable with source version control software (Git).Knowledge and understanding ofserver-side architecture best practices.Deep understanding ofthe HTTP protocol and networking.Knowledge orexperience with Cloud computing technologies and environments (Amazon Web Services).