Careers | Senior Software Engineer Cryoport
Irvine, CA

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer Position Summary

If you're interested in joining our team, please send your resume and cover letter to hr@cryoport.com. Make sure to include the job title of the position you are interested in the subject line of your email.

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Job Category: Staff

Department/Group: Engineering

FLSA Status: Exempt

Travel Required: Rarely

Position Summary

Support Cryoport through the planning, analysis, design, test-first Ruby-on-Rails implementation, and sustaining development of business requirements.

Initial Responsibilities:

* Learn our cloud-based application and our human business process.
* Reduce risk by identifying a portion of the application code that can modularized into its own service; set up an API between that service and the main application.
* Convert product backlog into implemented features.
* Provide on-call support in the rare event of an after-hours issue.

Our Environment:

* Pair programming Ruby on Rails and ReactJS -- with some independent work as well.
* Test-First implementation.
* Requirements are fast-changing.
* Document as-needed.
* GitHub for source code revisioning.

Prior Experience / Skills Required:

* 5+ years architecting, implementing, and maintaining 100,000+ lines of code web applications using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (React, Node), HTML, CSS, MySQL, and ElasticSearch.
* 1+ year architecting, implementing, and maintaining REST API clients and a REST API server.
* 1+ year performing DevOps using AWS: EC2, RDS, Redis, ElasticSearch, ElasticCache, ELB, SSL Certificates, CloudWatch, S3.
* Requirements gathering, documentation, and analysis.
* Algorithm analysis / evaluation.
* Time-management skills.
* Oral and written communication skills: verbal, written, whiteboard, virtual / remote.
* Interpersonal interactions with internal and external users and stakeholders.
* Source code revisioning system (git, svn, cvs, hg).

Preferred Additional Skills:

* Java
* ReactJS
* Data Analytics / Visualization / Mining / Reporting

Education & Experience:

* S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related discipline