Crossover for Work: Ruby on Rails Chief Architect

OnTheGoSystems are the makers of WPML and Toolset. The company began in 2007, today it has 78 dedicated full time staff members from 6 continents, 35 countries, and 69 cities. OnTheGoSystems come from different cultures and operate out of different time zones. This differences inspire them to expand into new markets, and its diversity gives them the courage to take on new challenges. OnTheGoSystems WordPress plugins have been mentioned in media all around the world. Their goal is to make the lives of the WordPress community easier.

OnTheGoSystems is partnering with Crossover to fill this position. Crossover specializes in finding and managing the talent in today’s global workforce and will help you through the recruiting process.

Job Description

Job Title: Ruby on Rails Chief Architect

At OnTheGoSystems you will play a dynamic leadership role in our fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for developing solutions to complex problems, designing and delivering real enterprise-class software products to customers and being a hands-on peer leader of top development resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
• A ruthless commitment to quality: must write unit testing on both back end and front end
• Extensive problem solving skills
• An ability to communicate clearly regarding complex issues (in English)
• 5+ years experience with Ruby on Rails development and architecture
• Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Understanding of functional programming style in Ruby
• Skills for writing reusable Ruby libraries that may be used in expressive ways
• Able to work in a dev-automation environment with some source control, continuous integration/delivery systems
• Proficiency in the following skills and technologies is mandatory:
  • Ruby on Rails

• Javascript Frameworks

• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful
• RSpec
• Cucumber
• MySQL Database
• Basic HTML and CSS
• Optionally worked with Python

Compensation is $50/hr for 40 productive hours per week

Location: Global (remote)

We’re one of the few legitimate companies offering high-paying jobs that are 100% remote, work from home. You never have to fight traffic to the office again and you have the freedom to choose when and where you put in your 40 hours to be most effective each week.

To qualify, please provide a resume/CV demonstrating the required experience and skills. From there, to help us find the top 1% of talent, there will be a series of interviews and online skills examinations. We realize these are challenging and can require a decent amount of time – so we thank you in advance for your efforts.

Are you up for the challenge?