Senior Back-End Developer

Seeking Alpha is the leading platform for actionable stock market opinion and analysis, delivering high-quality insights to millions of investors. We are dedicated to providing advanced tools and data to help individuals and professionals make better investment decisions.

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Why should you come work with us?

• Awesome product: Our crowdsourced research and cutting-edge investing tools are transforming the way investors achieve their financial goals.
• Work-life balance: We work primarily from home and offer great perks, encouraging you to fully enjoy them.
• People-first culture: We view every employee as a long-term investment, providing continuous support, growth opportunities, and training.

This role is 100% remote, offering flexibility to work from home.

• Develop API for modern cross-platform responsible SPA from the ground up.
• Participate in product design and planning discussions, contribute architectural ideas
• Develop and test new user-facing features.
• Write highly scalable, reusable, and testable code.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and performance.
• Collaborate with teammates and people from different departments to brainstorm, set targets, and devise solutions.

• Experience in OOP and MVC design and development patterns. Good understanding of data structures and design patterns.
• 5+ years of back-end development experience in building large, complex, highly scalable web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework.
• Solid understanding of Ruby syntax, its nuances, and core concepts. Ability to write clean and readable code.
• Experience building APIs, including authentication, cleanliness, and role-based access permissions.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MySQL, ElasticSearch, CouchBase, Redis, etc.).
• Comfortable with source version control software (Git).
• Knowledge and understanding of server-side architecture best practices.
• Deep understanding of the HTTP protocol and networking.
• Knowledge or experience with Cloud computing technologies and environments (Amazon Web Services).
• Problem solver: Has the ability to break down complex requirements into actionable tasks.
• Impact-driven, user and business oriented.
• Strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and mindset of “get things done”.