[Hiring] Senior Back-End Developer @Seeking Alpha

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Back-End Developer to join our R&D group. In this role, you will be responsible for 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.

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

What You'll Do

• Develop API for modern, cross-platform responsible SPA from the ground up.
• Participate in product design and planning discussions and contribute architectural ideas.
• Develop and test new user-facing features.
• Write highly scalable, reusable, and testable code.
• Optimize the application for maximum speed and performance.
• Collaborate with teammates and people from different departments to brainstorm, set targets, and devise solutions.
• Collaborate with our AI-powered workflows by building APIs and data integrations that enable seamless interaction between backend services and AI features.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Problem solver: Have the ability to break down complex requirements into actionable tasks.
• Impact-driven, user and business oriented.
• Strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and a mindset of “get things done”.