Senior Full Stack Engineer

Full-Time • Westlake, OH

Scale the foundation of mobile and web clients through CD strategies and cloud technologies

Assurant Labs has cultivated a fast-paced, Agile development environment where creativity and teamwork are paramount.

We are looking for positive, take-charge individuals to join our growing team as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer. Candidates must have exceptional communication skills, the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently, excellent judgment, and the ability to be productive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. Two engineers discussing their ideas

Responsibilities
  • Building scalable, highly reliable product features
  • Designing, implementing, and maintaining applications used by both mobile and desktop clients
  • Working closely with client developers to architect high-throughput systems
  • Building user-facing interfaces for interacting with data
  • Applying problem solving and analytical skills to a variety of issues
  • Interacting with cross functional teams to produce scalable solutions
  • Estimating engineering effort and coming up with realistic schedules
  • Identifying and resolving complex production issues
  • Rapidly fixing bugs and solving problems
  • Conducting design and code reviews
  • Making disciplined use of source control and bug tracking systems
  • Documenting best practices and helping create knowledge base
  • Unit-testing code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
  • Refactoring and improving maintainability of existing code base
  • Participating in resolving customer support issues as needed
Requirements
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered
  • Solid understanding of the full development life cycle
  • Hands-on knowledge of version control systems such as GIT
  • Track record as a results oriented person with a delivery focus
  • Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to resolve ambiguity in requirements
  • Ability to understand and articulate both technical and business issues with peers, management and external teams
  • Ability to manage and prioritize many tasks at a time
  • Ability to push the envelope for performance and reliability
  • A disciplined approach to development, testing, and quality assurance
  • Experience practicing Agile development methodologies
  • Exceptional collaborative, written and verbal communication skills
  • Flexibility with changing job requirements as the company and team grows
  • 4+ years of Ruby experience, or similar dynamic scripting language experience
  • 4+ years of Rails experience, or similar web framework experience
  • Experience with templating frameworks (e.g., Haml, ERb)
  • Experience with MySQL and relational database design
  • Knowledge of RESTful API design
Hopes
  • Willingness to participate in mentoring and skills transfer among team members
  • Experience with modern Javascript development (e.g., ES6 and unidirectional data-binding frameworks)
  • Experience with various programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++)
  • Experience with NoSQL solutions, such as Redis or MongoDB
  • Experience with TDD/BDD frameworks, such as Rspec and Cucumber
  • Experience with Git for version control
  • Knowledge of realtime app development practices, and technologies (e.g., Websockets)

This position has been filled.