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Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Ruby On Rails Developer for a Contracts assignment with one of our premier Information Technology Services clients in Gainesville, FL. The ideal candidate will create applications and tools that host and support products and data. They will perform self-guided work, demonstrate in-depth technical knowledge, and mentor other team members. They will collaborate with a cross-functional development team that includes game developers, content experts, education experts, artists, designers, and systems engineers. Together these teams create innovative solutions to deliver course content to students, represent student data analytics for faculty, ensure seamless access to the product across varying access points, improve access to system data for company stakeholders, and more. Responsibilities :
- Improves the user experience of current software
- Maintains existing codebases - (e.g. bug fixes, updating platforms, updating libraries)
- Develops new components typically using RESTful APIs - (e.g. features, applications, services, scripting, internal tools to improve security, accuracy, and efficiency of code)
- Connects to third-party APIs - (e.g. Heroku, AWS, Salesforce)
- Architectures communication across services and applications
- Migrates code to different platforms (e.g. AWS)
- Tests one's and team's code - (e.g. unit testing, integration testing)
- Participates in team code review
- Manages integration of resources with internal team members and external customers and their systems
- Troubleshoots issues
- Creates and evaluates software design patterns for front- and back-end services
- Considers data flow, data security, user experience, information architecture - (e.g. type of database, database connections)
- Communicates with internal and external customers
- Identifies issues to operational efficiency
- Manages software release from development, through testing, staging, and release
- Manages user authorization of Health's systems
- Researches new development concepts as to drive innovation
- Participates in Scrum processes - (e.g. plan/review/retro, daily stand ups, maintaining project board, identifying risks and blockers)
- Supports testing of software (e.g. putting builds/ creating access on dev or staging for internal and alpha testing)
- 3+ years designing and creating RESTful APIs
- 3+ Ruby on Rails development
- Testing and debugging skills
- Professional experience developing web applications or services which use modern SQL database systems such as PostgreSQL.
- Professional experience developing applications or services which run on public cloud infrastructure or platforms, such as Amazon Web Services or Heroku.
- Professional experience utilizing test-driven development and/or writing unit and integration tests, e.g. using Rspec.
- Professional experience using distributed version control and best practices, e.g. Git.
- Professional experience developing software using Agile methodologies, including Scrum and/or Kanban.
- Skill with CSS, HTML 5, JavaScript and AJAX
- Experience with modeling relational data / relational database design and working knowledge of techniques to improve database performance.
- Professional experience developing production web applications which scale horizontally to support "web scale user loads.
- Professional experience developing SCORM applications
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