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Mercer Talent Enterprise is hiring for experienced full stack Ruby on Rails developers.

As a Senior Ruby On Rails Engineer, you'll work on a closely-knit team with a technology stack built on top of Ruby on Rails 7.x. We like to work with modern technologies, always try to do what is best for the customer and put more value on teamwork than rock stars and cowboys.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Lead the technical design and development of major platform components to help our technology platform scale with our explosive user growth.
• Actively promote code quality, organization and automatization
• Build new features to improve psychometric assessments
• Shape our product roadmaps by being data-driven and creative
• Use and promote TDD best practices
• Pair program with team members of different experiences
• Be a mentor when you have the expertise / Be a student when someone else does

Required Experience or Skills

• 5+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience working with Postgres database
• Expert knowledge of feature/end-to-end and unit tests
• TDD experience with RSpec and Capybara
• Strong JavaScript skills
• Strong HTML / CSS 3 skills
• Experience working with a Continuous Integration environment (CircleCI, Github Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Understanding and commitment to Agile processes
• Great communication, particularly in explaining your coding processes, suggestions for best practices, and identifying ways to improve the team's coding quality

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience developing with React / Redux
• Experience developing with TypeScript
• Working knowledge with Docker

You'll get

• Competitive salary with health benefits
• An extremely energising, dynamic and fast paced entrepreneurial working culture and environment
• An opportunity to work on leading edge technology products and solutions that will be first movers in the market
• An opportunity to travel to international locations where our clients may be based
• Latest laptop, devices and technologies for your needs
• Unique and supportive opportunities to progress in your career
• On-going team and professional development

Where

Remote

About Mercer Talent Enterprise

Mercer Talent Enterprise is a global leader providing talent foresight for an organization’s most pivotal people decisions through our talent assessment, leadership, and capability development solutions. By integrating our extensive expertise in assessment and psychometric tools with progressive and modern advances in technology and evidence-based data science, Mercer Talent Enterprise enables a depth and breadth of assessment solutions across the employee lifecycle.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js) Stack Developer to join our dynamic development team. As a MERN Stack Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable web applications using the MERN stack framework.

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Expertise in backend programming with Node.js and MongoDB.
• Experience with React.js and redux.
• Material UI and 3rd party libraries.
• Experience with clean code writing practices like avoiding callback hell like promises, async.
• Thorough understanding of Node.js and its core principles.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js).
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token.
• Familiarity with modern front-end builds pipelines and tools.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial).

Responsibilities:

• Build Node.js APIs using microservices.
• Rewriting backend code with microservices architecture & Unit tests.
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
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If you are a passionate MERN Stack Developer looking for an exciting opportunity to work on challenging projects and be part of a talented team, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your application, including your resume and portfolio, highlighting your relevant experience and projects.

Technical knowledge

• Design and implement software components using up-to-date technologies and best practices.
• Comprehensive understanding of the REST architecture.
• Strong working experience in Angular,HTML5, CSS3
• Strong working experience in Container Orchestration Management on-premise and public cloud (Docker, Kubernetes or similar)
• Overall understanding of the Service Oriented Architecture
• Experience with widely used design patterns.
• Should possess prior experience in building distributed multi-tier applications with single sign-on.
• Continuous Integration (CI) and Automated Deployment on AWS/Azure
• Static and dynamic code quality analysis
• Should understand the dynamics of the full-stack development and guide junior team members.
• Experience in developing enterprise-scale software platforms
• Should have hands-on experience in managing releases.
• Build applications using Azure Services and deploy them on Azure Infrastructure.

Skills we are looking for :

- Experience in developing full-stack applications at scale in ReactJs/AngularJs & NodeJs.

- Strong knowledge and experience in HTML(5), CSS, SCSS, and Advanced JavaScript

- Good knowledge of coding RESTful APIs.

- Strong knowledge of Web Storage (Cookie, Local Storage, and Session Storage)

- Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JWT

- Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools

- Ability to work in a lean-agile development environment.

Good to know :

- Using GIT

- Knowledge of AWS

- Familiarity with GraphQL will be a brownie point