Candor is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails Engineer) who will play a hands-on role in driving our mission to build an outstanding technology company. You will be working as part of a cross-functional team, driving our core features from start to finish.
Candor allows you to understand your work style and how you show up at work. Our goal is to help you get feedback in a way that’s fun and lightweight so you understand how to best work with your teammates. Eventually, we believe that the Candor network will be the way people represent themselves professionally - with more authenticity than professional networks of today.
About the role
- Collaborate with other developers, designers and our project manager to provide elegant solutions to Candor customer problems
- Break down complex problems and ambiguous requirements into small approachable tasks
- Take ownership of feature delivery from concept to production
- Write performant, scalable, and secure software
- Review and have your code reviewed. Mentoring and learning from other developers
- Ensure code is well-tested and well-architected
- Actively improve our tools, processes and best practices
About you
- You have a strong technical background with at least three years of experience building production web applications
- You understand how to write, analyze and optimize SQL queries (PostgreSQL is a plus)
- You have experience designing and documenting Rails applications and Restful APIs
- You are customer-focused and like to pay attention to detail and value quality
- You have experience building Ruby on Rails applications and APIs
- You're detailed, efficient, are great at implementing process, and like the autonomy and speed of a startup environment.
- You are known for your scrappy hustle and results-oriented bias to action; you tackle the unfamiliar with fire and fun, you figure out how to get sh*t done.
- You like working in areas that you haven't before and can learn new processes and concepts quickly.
- You show a strong desire to learn from those around you and welcome feedback daily, seeing it as an opportunity to grow and become a better you.