Senior Developer (RAILS) job in Burlington

WHO WE ARE

Image Relay is a growing Digital Asset Management SaaS company headquartered in Burlington, VT. We provide our services to some of the world’s most respected and recognized brands, including Ben & Jerry’s, the MacArthur Foundation, Citrix, and Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales.

We are also a proud B-Corp and committed to providing value for multiple stakeholders, not just shareholders. We treat our clients well, we treat our employees well, and we provide every employee with paid time off to be active in their communities. We believe that together we can do well and also do good.

If you have never heard of B Corporations, please take a look. We’re part of this quickly growing community of more than 2,600 companies throughout 60 countries. As certified B Corps we are obligated to balance purpose and profit and consider the impacts of our decisions on our employees, our suppliers, our customers, our communities, and the environment. All of us are committed to redefining success in business. If you’re committed to those same values, you may be a great fit at Image Relay.

ABOUT THIS POSITION

Our development team is small but mighty. We strive to keep our apps and services up to date with modern tools and best practices while adding features that keep our customers happy. We’re looking to add a Senior full stack developer to the team to help keep pushing us forward.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for someone who has been working with Ruby and Rails professionally for at least 3-5 years. Our ideal candidate is someone who has:

• maintained larger applications
• fixed bugs and added features to legacy code
• refactored older or “smelly” code
• updated Rails to a newer, major version
• updated or forked gems or even created their own gems for bug fixes/features
• performed DevOps duties, preferably with AWS

SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT YOU MIGHT BE DOING

• Work closely with design to build the best features for our clients
• Building complex pages that load fast
• Identify and improve bottlenecks
• Query tuning
• Assist with DevOps
• Background job tuning
• Third party API integrations
• Good, old-fashioned bug squashing
• Writing test coverage for your features

SKILLS

• Ruby 2.x
• Rails 5.x
• Javascript
• Sass, grids & latest CSS (flexbox, etc.)
• Background job processing
• MySQL or Postgres experience
• Minitest or equivalent
• DevOps experience
• DNS/networking
• Redis as a data store
• Experience working with a remote team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• CI/CD experience

BONUS SKILLS

• Coffeescript
• React, ES6, Stimulus

COMPENSATION

Image Relay offers 80% paid medical insurance, a 401k with 3% Employer Safe Harbor contribution, and flexible scheduling. While we have a great downtown Burlington, VT location, we are excited to be able to offer this role to those who wish to work remotely, as well!

APPLYING

This search is being managed jointly by Krysta Sadowski and Frank Sadowski of Gallagher, Flynn & Company, LLP and by Etienne Morris of Morris Recruiting & Consulting, LLC. To apply for this position, please send a cover letter and resume to Etienne Morris at etienne@morrisrc.com.

Image Relay is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees.