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  • Posted: Aug 17, 2020
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Andela provides companies with access to the top 1% of global tech talent. We identify high-potential developers on the African continent, shape them into world-class technical leaders, and pair them with companies as full-time, distributed team members. Accelerate your product roadmap while minimizing time spent interviewing, on-boarding, and training ne...
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    Ruby on Rails Developer (Remote)

    About

    • Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software engineers.

    What You’ll Do

    • Our Andelan Software Engineers epitomize ownership. They take personal responsibility for Andela’s ability to continue to deliver value to our partners.

    Specifically, you’ll:  

    • Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our partners around the world.
    • Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.
    • Act as role-model even in the most difficult and challenging situations, using constructive feedback, mentorship and universal respect.

     Your typical week would include:

    • Collaborating with design, analytics, support, and product management to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can solve them
    • Discussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems with engineering collaborators in Slack or Zoom
    • Opening a Pull Request to implement the next most important feature or fix the most critical bug
    • Trying to reproduce a reported bug and responding to issues we’ve received from the community
    • Reviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback
    • Working with your engineering manager in your one-on-one meetings to grow your team and career
    • Talking with users to discover what they love and what their pain points are.

    Responsibilities:

    • Design, scope, and implement technical solutions that scale across multiple web applications
    • Collaboratively define and prioritize projects and tasks
    • Drive thoughtful conversations around technical issues and opportunities
    • Review code and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback for your team and the community
    • Triage, reproduce, and debug technical support requests, bugs, and feature requests reported by users in our Issues on our website.
    • Provide compassionate technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others

    Qualifications:

    • Strong written communication skills
    • High degree of empathy
    • 4+ years experience as a full-time professional coder using Ruby on Rails.
    • Experience team leading/management.
    • Experience working asynchronously on a remote, distributed team (does not have to be professional experience - preferable)
    • Ability to draw on both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs
    • Experience building highly available services at scale

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