Ruby on Rails Developer - Springbig

Ruby on Rails (ROR) Developer
Job Description
Springbig is the leading loyalty marketing and communications platform in the cannabis industry, working with over 1,300 unique storefronts and building up a cumulative database of over 20 million consumers. Our Software as a Service (SaaS) platform allows our dispensary clients to configure a custom loyalty program and through this loyalty program build a database of consumers. Our platform also boasts this industry’s most comprehensive communications engine, allowing our dispensary clients to market to their database of consumers via SMS and email (primarily focused on SMS marketing) in a personalized way.

Springbig recently launched a new platform, Brands by Springbig. This is also a SaaS platform, and it allows cannabis brands to collaborate with our dispensary clients to send engaging SMS campaigns to the dispensary’s database of consumers. A brand can use this platform to place an advertisement on top of hundreds of thousands of text messages and drive their products’ sell-through like never before!

Our headquarters are located in beautiful Boca Raton, FL with team members distributed around the country. This will be a remote position during COVID-19.

What will I be working on?
As a ROR Developer, you’ll be working with us in all aspects of the product, from its core infrastructure to its front-end. As a Team Player on the development team, you’ll wear multiple hats, turn ambiguity into details, building complex features and continuously find opportunities to improve performance and increase reliability.

Requirements:
• Minimum of 3+ years of professional software development experience in ROR
• Significant experience building web applications that have shipped
• You are comfortable managing other developers and conducting code reviews
• Experience working with Rails, CoffeeScript, Sass, Rspec/Capybara, Slim, MySQL and Git in a team environment
• You enjoy writing well-tested, well-organized code

Preferred Experiences: AWS Kinesis, Athena, API Gateway, Vue or other JS frameworks

Roles and Responsibilities:
• A Team Player that will help with the design, development and delivery of database solutions, back end applications, process, and APIs
• A Team Player that will help with the implement the integration with external APIs and data providers.
• A Team Player that will help with the design, develop, and deploy the APIs to integrate across multiple new and existing business applications.
• Manage and deploy the infrastructure to support the platform ecosystem. • Coordinate the development with other technology platforms. • Design the database schemas. • Coordinate with Quality Assurance (QA) during hand-over and subsequent defect correction (fixes bugs). • Refactoring, as necessitated by addition of features or in response to code review. • Implement automated tests. • Continuous interaction with Team members via Jira, Confluence and other tools