Back End Developer

Apex Systems
CA - Ontario - Toronto
July 3, 2024
Retail

Ruby on Rails Engineer

Apex Systems is a global IT services provider, and our staffing practice has an opening in the Online Retail space for a Ruby on Rails Engineer with 5+ years experience in API integration, SQL and Ruby on Rails to place at our client.

Start date: ASAP.

Office Location: Toronto preferred

Hybrid: preferred on weekly basis

About our Client

Our Client is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Our Client's same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Our Client has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Our Client is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.

About Back End at Our Client

The backend systems power the clients used by millions of customers every year to buy their groceries online. These systems must also support tight integration with the largest retailers in the US and Canada. Backend engineering at Our Client provides the opportunity to work on challenging scaling solutions while also designing the features that will define our industry. You'll have the opportunity to work with an Elasticsearch cluster serving millions of requests per day, a unique order lifecycle system that processes thousands of order per hour, and a recovery system capable of rebuilding the entire platform from scratch.

Our Client's applications run on Ruby on Rails. They use Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra as datastores. Memcached and Redis for caching. Kinesis for stream processing. Sidekiq for job processing. As they grow to serve more customers and deepen their relationships with retail partners they are constantly given new opportunities to solve fascinating and rewarding challenges.

Responsibilities

You will be part of a small team, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for managing things directly.
You will work closely with product managers, other teams, and both internal and external stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives.

Requirements

Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a startup environment
A strong sense of ownership
Strong knowledge of common back-end Web technologies (such as Ruby on Rails, Python, etc.) in a production environment
An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team.
Strong knowledge of SQL
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering OR equivalent work experience
5+ years Ruby on Rails
API integration
Integrate with different retailers
Mostly REST sometimes SOAP at times GraphQL

Desirable

Previous technical leadership/platform experience
Experience building consumer systems at scale
Interest or experience in distributed systems
Strong analytical and debugging skills
iOS or Android experience
Contributions to the technical communities (e.g. open source, blogging, etc.)
AWS - any cloud works
Dynamo
S3 buckets
Lambdas as well
GraphQL
E-commerce experience would be an asset
Similar environment
Comms
Understand the problem - explain the issue - explain the process - both written and verbal
Office once a week preferred

Technology

From a technology point of view, the platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time all of the time. Our Client's technology coupled with operational expertise enables Our Client to deliver fresh groceries in as little as an hour. They use a modern stack including Ruby/Rails, Python, React and many more technologies.

Read the full job description and apply online on the recuiter's web-site

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