Mid/Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Published on October 10, 2024

ShiftCare’s innovative software platform helps Australia’s disability support providers, in-home aged carers and allied health professionals, streamline the way they do things 🧑🏽‍⚕️📲 ✅

By creating efficiencies in rostering, client management and billing, we enable businesses to grow, while creating more time for what matters most – supporting clients, and helping them lead healthier, happier lives.

We’re a small but rapidly growing start-up that strikes the balance between work and play 🧑‍💻 ➡️ 🏄‍♂️

Based at Fishburners, one of Sydney’s leading tech co-working spaces, our diverse team embraces a culture of dedication and enthusiasm.

Whether you choose to work on-site with us, where you’ll rub shoulders with other start-ups, enjoy perks like complimentary coffee, beer and the occasional pizza, or remotely, at hours that suit you, you’ll soon feel like part of a team making a difference.

Shiftcare is the fastest growing start-up in it's industry and is redefining the way Aged Care and Disability Services are delivered in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. 
Working within a growing team as the business continues to scale, you will be given the task of building performant, scalable, and sustainable backend application architecture and software.
Responsibilities
  • Work with the technology team in the adoption and maintenance of modern (agile) software engineering practices
  • Build technical integrations with third party vendors
  • Support critical technology incidents as needed
  • Work in technology architecture, scalability, security and performance initiatives
  • Deliver high quality hands-on engineering work inline with the companies commercial objectives
  • Mentor other platform engineers and team members
  • Track and drive to completion all of the platform focus group's deliverables
  • Work within defined project management guidelines and security best practice
  • Contribute technology inputs to product team and roadmap discussions
  • Be the champion of delivering scalable, robust, commercially viable technology outcomes for the company
  • Become a cultural change agent within the technology group to focus on engineering best-in-breed, commercially viable technology outcomes for the business
Requirements
  • Minimum 3 year’s industry experience with Ruby on Rails development deploying scalable Rails API & applications
  • 5+ years experience in any Web Development fields
  • Identifying bottlenecks, optimizing and profiling web applications using NewRelic and related tools
  • Develop and maintain specs using Rspec, Jest and e2e preferably Cypress
  • Experience in creating APIs
  • Good understanding of pair programming and in pair code reviews
  • Working proficiently in relational databases
  • Have worked in teams of 3 or more developers
  • Experience and understanding of CI/CD tools such as CircleCI
  • Experience deploying scalable cloud solutions on AWS
  • Experience working within Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban)
  • Basic experience working with frontend frameworks such as Vuejs.
  • DevOps skills a bonus
Your attributes
  • Confident and autonomous
  • You write performant, scalable, efficient code
  • You take pride in your work
  • You have good (written/verbal) communication skills and contribute regularly to architectural and team discussions
  • You aren’t afraid of making and learning from mistakes
  • You share and communicate your knowledge with the team
  • TDD and BDD by default
  • Some knowledge/interest in other technologies we use - Vuejs, React native, serverless
Benefits