Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Ruby on Rails & React) — USA

About the position NextLink Labs is seeking a motivated Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our Custom Software Development consulting team. A successful person in this role will be tasked with building and maintaining web applications for our clients and will also possess a strategic mindset to contribute internally to improving our consulting practice.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end features for client applications using Ruby on Rails and React
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions to alleviate technical debt in legacy applications
• Engage in technical conversations with clients to understand their pain points and how best to solve them
• Mentor junior developers and assisting the team in ongoing efforts to establish internal best practices to elevate our standards of excellence
• Work with other NextLink engineers to architect and implement software solutions
• Communicate directly with clients to give demonstrations and receive feedback
• Review legacy software applications to identify and remediate technical debt
• Work in an agile team environment with weekly stand ups
• Engage in code reviews of your teammates' work
• Contribute to internal NextLink Labs documentation and code templates
• Engage in thought leadership through blog posts, webinars, and other marketing materials
• Assist Sales and Marketing by joining scoping calls and providing technical input

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building web applications, with strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails and React or equivalent frameworks
• Ability to work independently and take ownership in a variety of software engagements
• Ability to scope individual features and full software projects based on client requests
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with the ability to build buy-in, facilitate compromise, and guide client expectations
• Strong unit-testing and debugging abilities (RSpec/Minitest, Jest/RTL)
• Proficient understanding of version control systems (Git)
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Experience with APIs (REST/GraphQL), relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), and background jobs (Sidekiq/Active Job)

Nice-to-haves

• Experienced with DevOps tooling (AWS, Terraform, Docker) and observability platforms (Sentry/Datadog/Grafana)

Benefits

• Competitive salary with bonus structure
• Remote-first culture, flexible work schedule, and autonomy to do your best work.
• Healthcare (Medical, Dental, and Vision) and 401k
• Paid parental leave
• Responsibility and autonomy at a growing company
• The opportunity to build something big and exciting

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