Ruby Backend Engineer

About Airtasker

Airtasker is a trusted community platform that connects people who need to outsource tasks and find local services, with people who are looking to earn money and ready to work.

From simple to complicated tasks, Airtasker can help you complete your home cleaning, handyman jobs, admin work, photography, graphic design or even build a website.

Go online or download the app and Airtasker will take you from 'things to do' to 'everything's done'.

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Position

• Building Ruby on Rails API with single-page-app Javascript frontend
• Scoping new features for the platform with the Product and UX teams
• Contributing to the engineering roadmap
• Managing multiple projects across the business simultaneously

Your qualification

• Minimum of 3-5 years commercial Ruby/Rails experience
• Full stack experience preferred
• Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related IT discipline
• Experience working with and building APIs to achieve scale
• Practical PostgreSQL experience
• Experience with Git Experience in performing optimisations such asvcaching/asset CDNs
• Work in an Agile manner, iterating through user stories and applying Test Driven Development techniques
• Solid monitoring focus with tools such as NewRelic
• Merchant gateway knowledge
• Experience in using various testing frameworks for automated testing
• Excellent English communication skills

Will be a plus

• Experience with JavaScript frameworks including ReactJS, BackboneJS and NodeJS
• Worked with Elasticsearch
• Working knowledge of software testing methods and quality assurance
• Contributed to the open source community
• Interest in a startup and technology community