UNIVERSAL Technologies is hiring a Lead Ruby on Rails Developer for an onsite position in New York, NY. The selected candidate must be able to work onsite in New York, NY from day one.

Position: The Lead Ruby on Rails Developer will assist the IT PMO and lead development teams on implementing projects including but not limited to street planning, installation, and repair, permit management applications, and asset management systems.

WHO WE ARE:

UNIVERSAL Technologies, LLC is a Women-Owned (M/WBE) IT solutions and consulting company focused at delivering enterprise systems that significantly improve our client’s IT performance. We work across the IT spectrum including Development, Business/Systems/Data Analysis, Project Management, Cyber Security, Network Engineering, and High-Level System Architecture.

The pride in the services we provide and the accessibility and flexibility we provide to employees are what make Universal Technologies stand out from the rest! We hope to propel your IT career to the next level and excite our employees with new and challenging projects.

WHAT WE OFFER:

Our W2 employees can expect the following benefits:

• Competitive pay

• Health/Dental Insurance

• Group Life Insurance

• 401K

• HSA/FSA

• Pre-Tax Transportation Program

• Generous Paid Time Off/Holiday Policy

  MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• BA/BS Degree or equivalent, in a technology related field.

• 10+ years’ experience leading a team of software application developers.

• 10+ years’ experience in object-oriented design, development, testing and deployment of mission critical business applications, and on web/client-server environments.

• 7+ years of hands-on development experience with projects involving the full stack Ruby on Rails 5.x with other Open-Source technologies such as Ruby 2.x, RVM, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, ReactJS, LeafletJS, jQuery, DataTables, Bootstrap, AngularJS, BackboneJS, PostgreSQL 9.x, Apache, Tomcat, Linux, Ubuntu, Redis and Memcache.

• Experience in building and integration with RESTful and JSON APIs.

• Experience with configuration management, continuous integration, version control, testing and document management with Open-Source tools such as GIT/GITHUB, RSpec, BlazeMeter and Jira.

• Must be flexible and willing to undertake a wide variety of challenging tasks.

• Experience in all phases of SDLC and standard SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, RUP, Agile/SCRUM to deliver client solutions.

• Strong analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills.

• Good communication, presentation and leadership skills.

• Team player who can establish excellent working relationships with peers and other teams.

• Ability to understand business requirements and estimate for delivery commitments.

• Experience using Microsoft Office Applications.

• Understand existing application architecture/design and perform application development according to design specifications and coding standards.

• Understand network design, security architecture and performance constraints.

• Knowledge and use of DevOps technology such as Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, DataDog.

• Understand release management and maintain GITFlow workflow.

• Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS and SSRS.

  SCOPE OF SERVICES:

• Provide technical leadership for enterprise-level Open-Source information technology efforts.

• Lead a team of software application developers in performing hands-on web application development using Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.

• Define application architecture, evaluate application stacks and integration options, document business volume metrics and build performance models.

• Review requirement specifications and business process artifacts for proposed solution implementations.

• Ensure reusability and scalability as needed.

• Perform data modeling and logical/physical database design.

• Develop and integrate responsive design-based web applications using full stack Ruby on Rails with other Open-Source technologies such as Ruby, RVM, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, LeafletJS, jQuery, DataTables, Bootstrap, Polymer, XML/JSON-based web services on Linux, Windows, Ubuntu operating systems, and Apache/Tomcat web servers.

• Design, develop and optimize application databases using PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS-SQL, Memcached and Redis.

• Build and integrate with RESTful and JSON APIs.

• Perform configuration management, continuous integration, version control, unit/performance testing and document management with tools such as AWS, Docker, Git/GitHub, RSpec, Cucumber, Travis, BlazeMeter and Jira.

• Lead transition to Azure DevOps workflow for application deployment.

• Build secure web applications with user authentication and role-based access control.

• Develop/integrate Geographic Information System (GIS)-based services based on ESRI, Google, MapBox, and Open-Source GIS solutions.

• Incorporate DCP’s geospatial data and APIs.

• Participate in and contribute to formal/informal technical reviews and presentations.

• Take inputs from reporting manager(s) and appropriately apply comments/feedback.

• Accurately estimate time to complete development tasks.

• Collaborate with diverse teams.

• Proactively initiate, develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members.

• Refactor code for performance and security issues.

• Be responsible for technical quality of the implemented code base and fully understand the implemented design.

• Participate in software testing process, including identification and resolution of defects.

  UNIVERSAL Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.