Ruby on Rails Engineer

Title: Ruby on Rails Engineer

Location: Aurora, Colorado, 80014, United States

Hybrid

Salary: $125,000 USD per year

Pay or shift range: $125,000 USD to $150,000 USD

This is the estimated range for this position, including base + bonus (when applicable). Final offers are based on various factors, including skillset, experience, location, qualifications, and other job related reasons.

Technology

Full-Time

Requisition #: RUBYO001177

Department: Technology

Job Description:

Compensation: $125K - $150K annually

At American Financing, we're innovators with imagination. We do what it takes to help customers achieve their financial goals. And we stay ahead of the competition by challenging ourselves to become more efficient. We are one of the fastest-growing national mortgage lenders because we don't follow the status quo.

See what it's like to work for a national mortgage lender that truly values its employees.  Wherever your passions lie, you can find rewarding work and new opportunities here. 

• Casual work environment
• Family-owned, Customer-focused
• Denver Post Top Workplace
• Top 50 Family-Owned Business
• Best of Colorado Business
• Inc. 5000 Fastest-growing Private Company

JOB SUMMARY:

American Financing is seeking an experienced Ruby Developer to produce efficient, elegant code that meets product requirements. In this role, you will be responsible for troubleshooting, debugging, and maintaining existing software to ensure high performance and seamless user experiences.  Additionally, you’ll contribute to evaluating new product ideas, assessing their feasibility, and estimating development timeframes to support timely and successful product launches.

What You Will Bring:

• Translate product strategy into detailed development requirements for prototype, construction, and final product for the development team
• Collaborate closely with production, marketing, implementation teams, and sales teams on the development, QA, and release of software products
• Troubleshoot bugs and complex system requirements
• Implement designs and UI/UX improvements
• Provide timely and accurate status updates on testing progress, issues, and overall project health to project stakeholders.
• Assist in maintaining and updating test environments and test data.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices in software development methodologies.
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
• Familiarity with Docker/containerized applications is preferred, but not required

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated proficiency in object-oriented programming and how to apply them in Ruby for modular, maintainable code.
• Experience with SQL and Active Record, understanding database relationships, migrations, and optimizations.
• Managing code with Git, including branching, merging, and pull requests to facilitate collaborative development.
• Knowledge of RSpec for unit testing, as well as debugging techniques using tools like Pry, Byebug, and Rails console.
• Experience with building and consuming Restful APIs, and understanding JSON, XML, and serialization.
• Familiarity with HAML, ERB, Tailwind and StimulusJS
• Knowledge of web security and how to implement secure code practices in Ruby applications
• Local candidates must be ok with working a hybrid schedule

Compensation: $125K - $150K annually

What We Bring:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k
• Paid time off and sick days
• Paid holidays
• Long-term paid disability
• Paid maternity and bonding leave
• Full desk equipment provided

American Financing Corporation (AFC)  is an Equal Opportunity Employer. AFC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis protected by law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.