Who We Are:

The Data Sherpas are a team of highly skilled and motivated engineers who help our clients at every phase of their cloud journey. If it touches the cloud, involves data, or lives as an application, we have either worked on it or have the skills and expertise to accomplish it.

What We Are Looking For:

We are looking for a motivated individual who is willing to jump into the organization and start contributing. We seek individuals who have the desire to win, a tenacious appetite to be number one, and enjoy an independent and collaborative work environment.

Responsibilities:

• Experience leading a team of engineers to solve complex business opportunities with software
• Lead the team’s organizational processes, such as planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews, to ensure effective collaboration and feedback
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Design technical solutions with little direction or guidance
• Proactively identify and address potential technical issues and bottlenecks
• Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging to identify and resolve integration issues
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement solutions
• Create and maintain APIs, rSpec testing suite, and middleware to facilitate data flow between systems
• Ensure compliance with security protocols and data privacy regulations during integration processes
• Troubleshoot and optimize application performance to provide an optimal customer experience

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of extensive rails knowledge, including familiarity with common challenges/solutions/technologies
• Knowledge of development best practices (Unit testing, CICD, TDD, Agile/Scrum, etc) and how to practically apply them to team operations
• Ability to work with incomplete requirements, tracking down missing information and background context
• Proficiency in the following programming languages Ruby with Ruby on Rails, Python, NodeJS
• Experience with SFTP/FTP, File, OAuth2, OIDC, TLS, SSH, etc.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, or equivalent databases
• Knowledge of caching
• Familiarity with rSpec testing framework
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and integration and knowledge of Postman
• Be a self-starter and able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with Linux environments and Docker in general
• Strong communication ability to describe complex problems and solutions

Complimentary skills:

• Experience developing with ReactJS
• Experience with NewRelic
• Experience with AWS infrastructure
• Experience within fintech/startup is desirable

We cannot work with third-party agencies at this time. Resumes submitted via unapproved agencies will be automatically rejected.