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  • Posted: Jun 8, 2020
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Andela extends engineering teams with the most talented software developers in Africa. We recruit the most talented technologists on the African continent, shape them into technical leaders, and place them as full-time distributed team members with companies that range from Microsoft and IBM to dozens of high-growth startups. Backed by Chan Zuckerberg Ini...
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    Ruby on Rails Developer (Remote)

    What You’ll Do

    Our Andelan Senior 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
    • 6+ 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)
    • 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

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Andela on www.linkedin.com to apply

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