Join the SitePoint Team!

Senior Ruby on Rails/Back-end Developer

SitePoint, an internationally renowned digital publication and educational web development resource, is seeking a Senior Ruby on Rails/all-round back-end developer to join its team on a full-time remote basis. We’re a passionate group of web people dedicated to building industry-leading content enjoyed by other web people worldwide. This role’s objective is to create and maintain quality software that helps us to do that.

We’re looking for someone with a passion for development, and for writing beautiful code. You will join a team of amazing developers working in a fast-paced environment to deliver world-class software across a number of different platforms.

The Role

You will:

• Work closely with our product manager and our strategy team to introduce features and improvements to our existing platforms.
• Apply Test Driven Development to build web applications to scale with Rails and accompanying tools.
• Join the team in following best practices for continuous integration, refactoring, code standards and Agile principles for software development.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle from planning to release.
• Perform maintenance (bug fixing and upgrades) on our our educational Rails platform, our WordPress blog and our Discourse community platform.
• Share responsibility with the team for responding to alerts and maintaining uptime, occasionally after hours.
• Contribute to the management and continual improvement of SitePoint’s Amazon Web Services setup.
• Work with our front-end developers to design and build RESTful APIs.

Required Skills and Experience

• Professional experience (ideally 3+ years) as a Ruby on Rails developer.
• Test Driven Development
• Relational Databases (MySQL)
• Common design patterns, including MVC.
• Version Control Systems (Git)
• Continuous Integration
• Agile practices/SCRUM
• An understanding of configuration management and AWS (EC2, Cloudformation) is a plus.
• Competence with PHP/Apache desirable.

To apply please send your resume to jobs@sitepoint.com, with the subject line “BE Developer”. Please include a link to your GitHub (or other repository) profile if applicable.