Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

Location: Pleasanton CA

Position Summary:

As a Principal Engineer, you will join the team responsible for delivering the next generation high- volume, fault-tolerant, and scalable transaction processing system. The ideal candidate will possess a demonstrated proficiency in a wide range of skills and experience utilizing Java, web service APIs, and database technologies. Apply now for a chance to lead our products and platforms to new heights of functionality and adoption.

Responsibilities:

• Be a leader and promote best practices to deliver high performance software solutions
• Work hand-in-hand with Solution Architects to build the right solution the first time
• Work closely with Product teams to ensure product is delivered to market on schedule
• Work closely with Operations and Support staff to ensure hand-off post-release
• Design and develop enterprise transaction processing solutions using traditional and emerging technologies.
• Develop products that perform, scale, are highly-available and fault-tolerant with automated failover capabilities.
• Create systems that can be easily triaged to find performance bottlenecks and root cause analysis of failure scenarios.
• Create understandable and automated product deployment mechanisms for development, QA, and production environments.
• Actively supports an agile approach and operates as a core member of an Agile Scrum team including interfacing with key business representatives.
• Participates in all Scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, iteration planning, iteration demos and retrospectives.
• Ability to work in a priority-driven environment, managing multiple and changing tasks.

Qualifications:

• 9+ years of Java application development utilizing data persistence environments.
• Deep service-oriented architecture and REST service knowledge.
• Experience with Hibernate and JDBC.
• Experience using, tuning, and troubleshooting MySQL required.
• Experience deploying systems in data center and cloud environments.
• Demonstrable solution design for performance and scalability.
• Skilled at driving release management, test automation, and performance testing.
• Experience scripting using multiple of the following: Ruby, Python, PERL, Bash, SQL, etc.
• Experience reviewing code, mentoring team members, and driving great development practices.
• Ability to positively manage work in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to assimilate and organize large volumes of disparate, minute detail, and assemble a big picture view.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to rapidly build knowledge of application business area and application requirements.
• Ability to interface with 3^rd party solution providers.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of the Agile scrum methodology required.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including RDS and EC2 desirable.
• Experience with continuous integration tools like AnthillPro and Maven a plus.
• Experience working in the Payments industry on credit/debit transactions a plus.
• Knowledge of ISO 8583 messaging protocol a plus.