Ruby on Rails Developer

Job Title: Ruby on Rails Developer

Location: Washington, DC (Remote)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Roles & Responsibilities:

·        As a member of the development team, you will work closely with subject matter experts, chief engineers, business analysts, system architects, UI designers, SOA and RoR developers, DBA’s, testers and others to design and implement APIs and Web-based applications.

·        A Ruby on Rails Software Developer, will Design and develop software for Web applications, Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

·        Capture functional requirements as Use Cases and accurately estimate level of effort to develop.

·        Work independently to identify solutions

·        Write object-oriented Web application/interface code conforming to established methodology and standards

·        Design and code software service components, units, and modules that meet project specifications and development schedules

·        Work closely with the project team to ensure that all technical project deliverables comply with customer standards and requirements

·        Evaluate third-party software components for potential use in developing solutions

·        Practice Behavior Driven Development and test-first coding methodologies

·        Contribute to business discussions about the project and user interfaces

·        Document development projects and create test plans

·        Troubleshoot problems and provide customer support for application issues

Desired Skills & Expertise

·        Four-year degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience

·        Agile software development principles, practice and process experience (from use case definition to component delivery) experience required

·        RSpec, git, Capistrano experience preferred

·        Angular, JavaScript, jQuery experience required

·        RDBMS (PostgreSQL, Oracle) required

·        NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB) database experience preferred

·        SOA and Web service development experience preferred

·        Experience deploying solutions on Linux platforms preferred

·        RESTful Web service using XML, XSD, JSON experience preferred

·        AMQP or JMS messaging experience preferred

Thanks & Regards
Rocky Thomas | M9 Consulting, Inc
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