Ruby on Rails Developer (100% remote)

Description

Fishisfast provides people and business around the world with a virtual US address, and allows them the easily buy from US ecommerce.

We're looking for an experienced developer to join our team, and contribute to ongoing work in our web app development. This will be a full-time co-lead position. Will be working remotely with other developers and business directly. Must be available via online chat or video conferencing for at least 4 hours per day between 9-6 CST for communication with business and other developers as needed.

At Fishisfast, our team works remotely. The successful candidate will join our remote team and will need to become very familiar with the software we use to plan work and collaborate over long distances (the usual suspects, Slack, Basecamp, GitHub, Skype and others).

Our ideal candidate:

Has a deep understanding of his craft

Is able to independently make decisions and implement ideas

Thinks strategically

Takes the time to have an informed opinion on key issues

Is willing to fight to see the right direction taken

Has experience with an international focus

Is a great written communicator

Can lead and inspire a diverse team

Does a little research into our company and industry before applying

Must have:
Code skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Capybara, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap 3 & HTML/HAML/CSS
Capistrano, Chef, Amazon AWS, Agile development & Linux administration basics for deploys.

Tasks:

Able to monitor & keep the infrastructure running.

Familiar with linux server configuration

Familiar with postgres

Familiar with AWS

Able to maintain chef-solo

Familiar with newrelic.com

Familiar with airbrake.io

Keep the software up to date

Apply, via chef-solo, linux & package updates

Apply Ruby & Gem updates

Maintain application integrity

Familiar with Travis-CI (for RoR)

Monitor and maintain test suite

Monitor and correct airbrake errors

Support non-technical staff

Maintain Docker

Monitor & apply merge requests