Senior Software Engineer Spine
New York, NY

Job Description

Job Description

The successful candidate will leverage expertise in Computer Engineering and modern web application design to build new features and augment existing functionality for our users to drive revenue executing digital ad campaigns. Day-to-day duties will include building rich interfaces using semantic HTML5 mark-up and CSS3 for layout and style, embedding these interfaces in our modern Single Page Application (SPA) stack that is built around Backbone.js, and wiring them up to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) APIs provided by our Rails application. As a Software Engineer with the Spine, you will be tasked with rapidly building out new features and feature enhancements, as well as ongoing maintenance to keep the app purring.

The job also entails the design and careful testing of business logic and APIs within the Rails application, utilizing design patterns to build durable, testable code. We test the Rails application layer using Rspec unit tests, Capybara integration specs, and the JavaScript layer via a Rails runner for Mocha, with Sinon.js for mocking. The ideal candidate will be comfortable modeling data in a document database like MongoDB, which is our primary persistence layer, but will also be proficient with distributed JSON stores and search engines, including ElasticSearch, which powers our search functionality. Team members should also be conversant with Object Oriented Programming methods (OOP), and be comfortable handling version control with Git.

This position can be based in New York City or Chicago.

Responsibilities:

* Build new features and feature enhancements; contribute to ongoing maintenance
* Collaborate effectively with Product, QA, and our other engineering teams
* Contribute to ongoing refinements of our coding style and development processes
* Embrace solid, agile development practices, such as unit-testing, code reviews and design documentation