Junior Web Developer

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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.

Analyse and understand the JIRA business stories and design the technical solutions.  

• Design, Develop, and evaluate the AWS Cloud based technical solutions.  
• Lead, Track tasks, Oversee, and mentor less experienced team members.  
• Integrate with other SPE proprietary applications using RESTful webservices complying latest industry design and coding standards.  
• Strong Knowledge of technical principles, practices, and procedures to implement and keep SPEs standard complex system solutions.  
• Strong understanding and first-hand experience on agile software development approaches in a fast paced and continuously changing B2B marketing business environment.  
• Working on large scale systems development or integration projects, acting as the Project lead performing analysis and documenting technical requirements, data requirements, data architecture and relationships.  
• Provide subject matter expertise on overall IT solution, system and data flow architecture for Spring based micro services.  
• Provide primary technology support for in-house proprietary B2B projects with supported application platforms.  
• Review & approve Github Pull requests using the existing Application Development Frameworks and Coding Standards. 
• Provide production support in managing the application incidents and priority-based problem resolution. 

• Develop frontend components on ReactJS with Redux as state management library
• Should have good knowledge of tailwind CSS
• Must have expertise in JavaScript, ES6, React-Redux, HTML/CSS
• Familiarity with build tools such as Webpack, Babel
• Experience with testing tools such as Jest
• Experience in web security and performance on mobile and desktop
• Familiarity with Git.
• Should be able to make mobile responsive designs
• Knowledge on PWA would be an added advantage

• Develop backend APIs on Express.js and NodeJS
• Should be good with SQL database and perform DDL,DRL,DQL,DCL on database ,preferably PostgresDb.
• Should have familarity with ORM such as sequilize.
• Knowledge on server-less architecture is good
• Experience with monitoring tools web performance and caching techniques
• Experience working in agile methodology projects
• Should have knowledge of design patterns, design practices
• Should have the ability to design and write reusable code
• Ready to work in a challenging and fast-paced environment
• Experience in building Cloud Native applications
• Experience in test-driven development

Job Description

• Hands on Experience of More than ​2+ Years with Core PHP, Laravel, Vue js
• Developing user-facing applications using Vue.js.
• Experience in Datastores like Mysql, Redis.
• Utilize backend data services and contribute to increasing existing data services API.
• IT Service based Projects with international client handling.

Desirable skills:

• Experience in developing the clientside application Vue.js.
• Indepth knowledge of objectoriented PHP and Laravel 5.
• Good knowledge of Cloud computing technologies.
• PHP Framework.
• Handson experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design.
• MySQL query optimization.
• Creative and efficient problem solver.
• Good team player.
• Strong Communication skills.
• Ability to write emails and should be able to chat with the client.
• PM tools knowledge like JIRA, trello, basecamp would be a plus.

Design

·       Design a Service Platform that will serve a large scale of users 

·       Prepare design based on requirements and direction provided by product manager

·       Research and consult with SMEs to ensure the design is most suitable to meet the requirements

·       Present and explain design decisions and gain consensus within in the team

·       Propose UI/UX design decisions that align with requirements and expectations

·       Create any support documentation required for future design updates and validation

Develop

·       Document development plan to implement requirements (Senior)

·       Manage development project tasks and schedule (Senior)

·       Establish development lifecycle model to suit the needs of the project (Senior)

·       Build & configure the base platform based on Open Source solution

·       Manage sprint cycle releases and track development progress 

Quality

·       Perform Quality Assurance before releasing new features

·       Conduct Integration testing to ensure platform is stable

·       Track any issues and ensure that defects are resolved in the next release

·       Demonstrate new features at the end of the sprint

·       Report the development progress weekly including any issues identified

Standards

·       Use the following standards, methods and techniques

o   SDLC including Waterfall, Agile & DevOps

o   Project Management & Requirements Management

o   Coding standards, Code review process & Code management

o   Build, Test & Release Processes

o   CI/CD Frameworks

Technology

·       Use the following frameworks, technology & tools

o    Java, PYTHON, Jquery, React, , 

o   API, REST, DJango

o   Docker, 

o   Git, Jenkins

o   Linux

o   MySQL,