# Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

**Company:** [Virtual Staff 365](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/pzrDAmWzBeLFWWocD1c2K3.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

Our client is an established FinTech company delivering innovative digital solutions to major global brands. They operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with an enduring focus on quality, performance, and modern technology.

They are now seeking to hire a **Senior Ruby on Rails Developer** to design, develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise-grade FinTech applications. This role is essential for delivering new features, system enhancements, and seamless integrations across an established financial services platform.

### Job Responsibilities

### Development and Engineering

-   Design, develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise-grade applications using Ruby on Rails
-   Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and integrations with external financial services platforms
-   Write clean, secure, well-structured, and thoroughly tested code following established best practices
-   Contribute to the ongoing enhancement, security, and modernisation of the core platform including framework upgrades

### Analysis and Problem Solving

-   Analyse business and technical requirements to translate them into reliable and scalable software solutions
-   Investigate and resolve complex technical issues including application performance and production defects
-   Work independently on complex and business-critical development assignments

### Collaboration and Delivery

-   Take ownership of assigned tasks to ensure high-quality solutions are delivered within agreed project timelines
-   Participate in the full software development lifecycle including testing, deployment, and ongoing support
-   Collaborate closely with Solutions Architects, developers, business analysts, and testers to achieve successful project outcomes

## Requirements

-   Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience
-   Substantial hands-on experience developing and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications
-   Strong backend development expertise including application architecture and database design
-   Strong experience with PostgreSQL including database queries and performance optimisation
-   Experience designing, developing, and integrating RESTful APIs and third-party services
-   Understanding of secure software development practices within regulated environments

### Nice-to-Have Skills

-   Experience with frontend technologies including React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
-   Familiarity with Git, AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Yarn, Node.js, Webpack, Vue.js, and Unix shell scripting
-   Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
-   Previous experience in FinTech, banking, lending, loan origination, or credit management
-   Relevant tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology

## Benefits

-   Permanent work-from-home set-up
-   Dayshift (Australian business hours)
-   Full-time job
-   HMO
-   Annual leave
-   Christmas Bonus equivalent to 1 month's wage (pro-rata)