Sr. Ruby on Rails Engineer
Published on March 24, 2024
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.
- Underwriting which decides if a customer is approved for a loan
- Loan management system which involves 3rd party integrations and the general state machine of a loan
- Marketing which involves bidding and processing loan applications through multiple marketing channels
- Performance projects involving a mix of application code and interactions with our Postgres DB; business is good and we need to scale.
- You will work closely with your technical lead to shape the overall Engineering vision and roadmap.
- 5-10+ years of professional experience as a backend software engineer for non-trivial web applications
- Experience working with Frontend developers
- Experience working in Ruby a must (ideally 7+ years)
- Strong communication ability to describe complex problems and solutions
- Experience in an object-oriented programing language such as Ruby and Python
- Experience working with heavy web application development frameworks – specifically Ruby on Rails
- Extensive experience with data model design for relational databases
- Extensive experience using SQL to investigate non-trivial issues or to create complex reporting
- Strong experience on the Frontend or the infrastructure (DevOps)
- Experience working in Python
- 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