This is a Contract
position in Miami Shores, FL
posted July 13, 2021.
Assurant Labs has cultivated a fast-paced, Agile development environment where creativity and teamwork are paramount.
This position is remote.
In this role, you will work closely with multiple product teams to create web and mobile client applications to serve customers with an engaging, dynamic user experience. We have seen people thrive in this role from a variety of backgrounds, but we work mostly in Ruby on Rails and React Native. This role is focused more on server development, so Rails experience is a plus, but not a requirement.
Responsibilities include solving problems, experimenting, and building features that we measure for value to our users. Candidates must have strong communication skills, the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently, sound judgment, and the ability to be productive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
Responsibilities
Work in a collaborative environment by occasional pair and/or mob programming
Work closely with client developers to architect high-throughput systems
Communicate with Engineering Managers and Product Owners to plan and prioritize work and design technical solutions
Work in a cadence of two-week sprints with daily stand-ups and bi-weekly retrospectives
Conduct design and code reviews
Make disciplined use of source control and bug tracking systems
Grow subject matter expertise in programming, product, and platform
Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability and general reliability
Identify and resolve complex production issues
Collaborate with designers, content developers, and other software, site reliability, and QA engineers on cross-functional software products
Document best practices and help create a knowledge base
Requirements
Hands-on knowledge of version control systems such as Git
Ruby experience, or similar dynamic scripting language experience
Rails experience, or similar web framework experience
Experience with templating frameworks (e.g. Haml, ERb)
Experience consuming and maintaining RESTful APIs
Experience with MySQL and relational database design
A strong foundation in object-oriented or functional programming
Ability to demonstrate technical know-how through individual contributions, pair programming exercises, and architectural designs
A disciplined approach to development, testing, and quality assurance
Ability to reason with and adapt to evolving development tasks and priorities
Strong communication skills to create a productive communication environment with team members and stakeholders
Hopes
Experience and familiarity with Cloud Architecture (such as AWS or Azure)
Experience with testing frameworks such as RSpec and Cucumnber
Experience with GraphQL
Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
Experience with the Serverless framework for AWS Lambdas
Experience instrumenting applications with an analytics framework like Google Analytics or Mixpanel
Experience with React Native development
Willingness to participate in mentoring and skills transfer among team members
A continuous learning mindset that keeps you current on development best practices and trends
Desire for a deep technical understanding for the problems at hand
Ability to balance trade-offs between speed and quality based on business priorities
Technical leadership skills with the ability to resolve ambiguity in requirements