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Summary

We are looking for a remote Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer with strong knowledge in application backend development to join our development team. This is a long-term full-time (40 hrs/wk) contract role.

What You’ll Do:

• Communicate with the Engineering Manager and with frontend developers to establish priorities and plan the application roadmap.
• Suggest performance improvements and provide assistance with application architecture design.
• Point out potential performance problems and suggest fixes.
• Develop new web services with Ruby on Rails.

What You Should Have:

• 4+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails applications (mandatory).
• Knowledge of JavaScript, and Postgres or MySQL.
• Experience with unit testing (rspec, Jest, etc.) and background workers (Sidekiq).
• Experience working from design docs/specifications and frameworks.
• Knowledge of Vue.js, React, Solr, service workers architecture, and advanced SQL (nice to have).

What You’ll do

• Design and enhance the Leading Global Fixed Income e-trading platform for institutional investors
• Be part of a scrum team comprised of skilled technology professionals with the goal to revolutionize the credit and corporate bond markets
• Innovate and transform business ideas into highly utilized features and services for our customers
• Utilize industry standard technologies including: Java, AWS, Kafka, Oracle, React, Redis Spring Boot and others
• Implement and support products/initiatives from infancy to maturity
• Develop and design APIs in a microservices and/or event-driven architecture in the cloud

What You Bring to the Table

• 2-3 years of enterprise software development using Java
• Passion to be challenged and excited about the ability to be pushed out of your comfort zone!
• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka/Redis etc.
• Experience with microservices using Spring/Spring Boot (or ideally migrating from the monolith to microservices)
• Proven experience using react or angular is a plus!
• Experience with AWS is a huge plus though not necessary

What's in it for You

In addition to working on cutting edge technology and being more than a number in our lean and collaborative team, we offer:

• Healthcare and wellness options
• 401(k) match
• Potential to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Training and tuition assistance
• Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships, exercise equipment and similar, and access to on-site healthcare

MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal and state law.

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Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Job Benefits:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability and pet insurance
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Up to 20 weeks paid maternity leave; 8 weeks paid paternity leave
• Generous paid time off
• 401k match of 100% of contributions up to $10,000 of annual pay
• $1000 annual fitness & wellness subsidy
• Stocked kitchen
• $15 lunch stipend, 10 lunches/month
• ESPP; we issue matching shares equal to 20% of employee purchase
• Up to $2,000 per year match of any qualifying charitable cash gifts

This role is open to recent graduate software professionals as well as candidates with professional product software engineering and cloud operations experience who want to join a global community of like-minded engineers.

Help global companies embrace the latest private cloud infrastructure, Linux and cloud native operations, and open source applications. Our team applies expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Linux Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes and a wide range of associated technology.

This role has very diverse responsibilities. The team members are Linux and cloud solutions architects for our customers, designing private and public cloud solutions fitting their workload needs. They are the cloud consultants who work hands-on with the technologies by deploying, testing and handing over the solution to our support or managed services team at the end of a project. They are also software engineers who use Python to develop Kubernetes operators and Linux open source infrastructure-as-code.

The people who love this role are developers who like to solve customer problems through architecture, presentations and training.

What you’ll do:

• Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications
• Work in Python to design and deliver open source code
• Architect cloud infrastructure solutions like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, Hadoop and Spark either On-Premises or in Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Work from the comfort of your home
• Global travel up to 25% of time for internal and external events

Who you are:

• University degree in Computer Science or related software engineering expertise
• You have sound knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies, such as Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ceph, etc.
• You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking
• You have Intermediate to Advanced level of Python programming skills
• You are a dynamic person who loves to jump in new projects and interact with people
• You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (English)
• You have great organisational skills and follow-up reliably on commitments

What you’ll learn

• OpenStack and Kubernetes infrastructure
• Linux Ubuntu and networking knowledge
• Wide range of open source applications and skills
• Work directly with customers in a range of different businesses
• Real-life and hands-on exposure to a wide range of emerging technologies and tools

We offer:

• Learning and development tuition reimbursement
• Diversity Resource Groups
• Work from home
• Competitive salary
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel

About Canonical

Canonical is a growing, international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu -- the world’s #1 cloud operating system. Our mission is to realize the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. Our services help businesses worldwide reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background leads to a better environment for our employees and a better platform for our users and customers. This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to come be a part of the world of Ubuntu. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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Job Benefits:

• Progression - we hire for talent, passion, integrity and work ethic
• Remote work - fully distributed with regular team in-person events
• Open source and business - equally
• International - exceptional colleagues from anywhere
• Travel - we get together and meet customers in interesting places
• Retirement benefits
• Medical / Dental / Vision

The position of Python/Django Developer (m/f/d) will have the following responsibilities;

• Development and Maintenance of our existing products and (internal) services
• Bring your own ideas for our code structure and new features to be implemented
• Enhancement and refactoring of our services for more performance, constant up-time and maintainability
• Development of new products and features, using various types of technologies (React and Vue.js, eventually Kafka or Go)

Requirements

• Whether degree educated or not, you are an experienced Python developer, and ideally familiar with Django
• Performant database design and querying with either PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Experience writing unit tests

Nice to have

• Experienced in the development of Facebook applications (Graph API)
• The ability to write clean and compact code, e.g. DRY, KISS, Loose Coupling principles
• Language Agnostic, e.g. experience in or willing to learn Go, Rust, React, Vue

Job Benefits:

• free choice of hardware
• international team, from almost every corner of the earth
• flexible working hours, with the opportunity to work from home
• 28 days leave with an extra day for Christmas Eve and New Years Eve
• stocked kitchen with drinks, snacks & fruit
• German lessons offered
• regular team events
• table-football, ping pong & PS4 (our favourite is FIFA19!)
• Buddy, our friendly office dog!
• company library

We are looking for a proven and exceptional senior software engineer with credible experience in designing, implementing, and delivering complex enterprise applications using modern client-facing and server-side technologies. The ideal candidate will work with a variety of stakeholders to review and improve the organization’s strategy, processes, information, and technology.

We continuously evaluate new technologies to make sure we are fully aware and using the right tools for the job. Examples of the technologies we currently use include:

• Javascript/HTML (React, cypress.io)

• Java (Dropwizard, Jersey, Jetty, Jackson, Maven, JPA)

• AWS (SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, Cloudwatch, Firehose, Glue, S3, Lambda)

• DevOps (Jenkins, Terraform, Packer)

We are looking for someone who can:

• Design and implement the overall solution architecture, including data modeling, high- and low-level designs, and non-functional technical requirements

• Solve complex technical, scalability, or performance challenges

• Evaluate technologies and prototype solutions

• Conduct code and design reviews and be hands-on to develop technical products

• Work in a fast-paced agile environment and be able to take high-level requirements and work with different teams to make it a reality

• Roll-up-your-sleeves problem solver

• Strong speaker and written/visual communicator with superior listening skills and a “share early share often” mentality

Qualifications

Competencies / Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident/Ability To Pass A Government Background Check Upon Hire

• 8+ years of experience with measurable achievements in engineering and architecture with hands-on experience in full-stack development, design, and architecture

• Experience with most of the technologies listed above

• Thrives working with talented teams, seeking to achieve superior results

• Prior management or technology consulting experience working with large enterprise clients

• Strong foundation in computer science, algorithms, data structures, and design patterns

Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time

At Imaginary Cloud, we believe technology should improve and simplify people's lives. We are a Software Development and UX/UI Design company that follows a unique user-centric Product Design Process. We helped build and launch more than 200 web & mobile applications worldwide together with industry-leading clients and have been awarded in 2020 as Top 100 Fastest Growing Company and Top 1000 Global Company by Clutch.

Our purpose is to champion a human-centric world; that is why we put our people first always. You can expect a respectful and caring culture, where you can grow and learn in a flexible work environment (see for yourself by checking our Glassdoor rating). We are a certified Great Place to Work®, an award that proves our dedication towards building a Human-Centric World from within.

At Imaginary Cloud, you will find:

• A remote-first company. We seek team members who live in Portugal or are willing and legally qualified to live and work in the country.
• Flexible working hours
• Global projects with industry-leading clients
• Career plan with strong growth potential
• Health & Dental insurance
• Paid sick days
• Informal environment
• Team events
• Caring, respectful and human-centric culture
• Comfort budget
• Fair compensation according to your experience
• No Outsourcing, as an Imaginaree, you will always be part of Imaginary Cloud

We would love to have you on board if you have hands-on experience in the following areas:

1+ years of working experience in Ruby on Rails Development

• 2+ years of experience in Software Development
• A clear understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Good proficiency in writing well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices
• Experience with different open-source programming languages used on web projects
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written

Get to know our tech stack:

• Ruby / Ruby on Rails
• Javascript (React.js, Angular.js, Vue.js, Node.js)
• Python / Django
• Git
• SQL (MySQL / PostgreSQL)
• Mobile development (iOS, Android, React Native)
• Linux / Mac OS - command line
• Automated provisioning tools (Docker / Ansible / Capistrano)
• NoSQL (Mongo, Redis, etc.)
• Photoshop / Figma

As a Ruby on Rails Developer, your day-to-day tasks include development, problem-solving, architecture, client interaction, as required to develop a successful product.

If this sounds exactly what you're looking for, we would like to meet you and discuss this opportunity. Please apply here.

Want to get to know us a little bit better? Check out our blog to see who we are and what to expect from our recruitment process.

Time zone: (GMT+00:00) Lisbon