Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fifth Third Bank is a financial institution focused on connecting great people to great opportunities. They are seeking a Principal Ruby on Rails Engineer to design and implement technology solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver important banking products and services.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Newline's core RESTful API using Ruby on Rails
- Work with SRE's to design and implement our backend infrastructure using Terraform
- Work with the QA team to write thorough unit and integration tests
- Participate in software architecture discussions and code reviews
- Integrate our platform with bank core services and APIs
- Assist in establishing data security and information security best practices
- Participate in API platform scaling and optimization sessions
- Develop Newline's internal data pipeline and BI tools
- Implement and maintain new features and capabilities while continuously improving the quality of our technical products and services
- Build and share technical expertise with your Agile team and other members of the organization
- Follow industry and organizational best practices and standards, and participate in company communities of practice to continuously refine and communicate them. Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
- Achieve operational excellence by automating processes and creating maintainable, supportable, and testable solutions
- Keep up with technology trends and innovations in your field(s) of practice
- Provide operational support and troubleshooting for your team’s products and services
- Maintain appropriate controls and documentation to ensure compliance with all company and regulatory requirements
- Provide coaching, mentoring, and training for new or less experienced team members
- Provide leadership and guidance to your team in your technical field(s) of expertise
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant technology field or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Eight+ years of engineering or other IT work experience relevant to the position
- Prior experience working in a technical or team lead capacity
- Hands-on experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails required
- Experience working with PostgreSQL and ActiveRecord
- Experience writing unit tests in RSpec
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins)
- Ability to build and consume command line tools
- Experience working in an Agile software environment
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Willingness to work in a highly-collaborative environment
- Solid understanding and significant experience with modern software development practices, tools, and/or hardware technologies
- Solid understanding of IT security best practices
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting complex technical solutions
- Experience shipping highly-available (99.99%) enterprise B2B SaaS products is preferred
- Experience working in a regulated financial environment is a plus
- Experience working with IaC deployments (Terraform) is a plus
- Experience building high TPS API systems (~100 TPS) is a plus
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and differentiated compensation offerings
- Eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan, with any such payment based upon company, line of business and/or individual performance
- Extensive benefits programs are designed to support the individual needs of our employees and their families, encompassing physical, financial, emotional and social well-being
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