Sr. Ruby on Rails Engineer - NinjaCard

Published on October 18, 2023

NinjaHoldings was founded in 2017 by a team seeking to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we empower people overlooked by traditional financial institutions to take control of their finances via a full suite of digital banking and lending products, providing incentives and rewards along the way as we guide them on a path to financial improvement. Through our NinjaEdge brand, we help companies better understand their customers by offering a package of bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. With offices in Chicago, Miami, and around the world through the power of remote work, we are a lean and innovative team always seeking like-minded talent to join us in our fight to disrupt consumer finance.

NinjaHoldings was founded in 2017 by a team seeking to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we empower people overlooked by traditional financial institutions to take control of their finances via a full suite of digital banking and lending products, providing incentives and rewards along the way as we guide them on a path to financial improvement. Through our NinjaEdge brand, we help companies better understand their customers by offering a package of bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. With offices in Chicago, Miami, and around the world through the power of remote work, we are a lean and innovative team always seeking like-minded talent to join us in our fight to disrupt consumer finance.
We’re looking for a self-starter, who is communication-focused with a deep sense of ownership and a team mentality to collaborate on building the best applications to serve our clients. 
As a senior Ruby engineer, you will be working on banking applications for account opening and online banking, generating documentation, providing input on architecture for new products, exposing APIs for front-end applications, and delivering webhooks. You will be responsible for providing coding estimates and delivering high quality, tested code. This is mostly a back-end focused job but some front-end work will be available in React.
What You’ll be working on:
  • Creating REST APIs
  • HTTP (headers, response codes, certificates, CORS, etc)
  • GitHub and GitFlow
  • Some containerization (Running Docker locally)
  • Monitoring and debugging production issues
  • Designing highly available systems with disaster recovery in mind
  • Documenting your processes and sharing knowledge
  • Additional duties and projects as required.
What we are looking for:
  • 5 yrs or more Software Development in Ruby and more specifically Ruby on Rails
  • Fintech and/or banking experience is highly beneficial but not required.
  • Postgres experience a plus
Benefits:
  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Flexible, remote work
  • Fun, fast-paced work environment
  • Dynamic start-up culture
  • Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
  • Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
  • Equal opportunity employer