Backend Development Engineer/ Lead

Roles & Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of application functionality in an Agile setting, working with development and QA teams.
• Lead the development of application features and deliver on time
• Ensure high quality of application feature by the use of test-driven development techniques.
• Provides technical guidance to others in the team as needed.

• Review work-package, document scope of work and create estimations for effort allocation for project execution
• Interact with client, negotiate timelines and charter project milestones
• Assign resources to projects and communicate priorities to complete assigned tasks.

• Ensure quality of deliverables and adherence to company procedures
• Assist with the development of departmental guidelines in line with the standardization of processes/systems for the generation of components.

• Supervision of RoR team for meeting all project timelines & deliverables
• Monitor project execution by conducting status review meetings
• Periodic status updates to project stakeholders
• Ensure project milestones are achieved in a timely, quality, and cost-effective manner

• Recruit and retain team members.
• Mentor and evaluate direct reports in order to establish training and coaching needs.
• Ensure compliance with SOPs and industry standards.
• Ensure team training is up to date and documented.
• Handle administrative aspects of line management including performance reviews.

• 12+ years of experience in software development
• 2+ years of team lead experience
• Solid knowledge/experience with Ruby on Rails or similar Web application frameworks
• Asset Pipeline, Rails Templating, Active Record experience
• Experience with JS/ECMA6 UI frameworks such as ReactJS
• Test-driven development experience. Well versed in Rails BDD/TDD methodologies.
• Experience building and using RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding of web-based architecture (web servers, load balancing, caching, databases, replication, etc.)
• Working knowledge of JavaScript and other web technologies (XHTML, CSS, Ajax, JQuery, etc.)

• AWS, EC2 deployment, Capistrano, PaaS (like Heroku)
• Open-source projects contributions
• Git and Github proficiency
• Example work, preferably an active Github profile or similar
• Experience in Linux, Devise, PostgreSQL, MySQL, ResQue, Delayed Jobs, Redis
• Experience with software development in Pharmaceutical and/or Healthcare