Software Engineer

What we do at Shaker matters. We help to connect people with jobs.  A recruitment marketing pioneer since 1951, Shaker is a full-service agency specializing in highly customized communications and strategies for attracting and retaining the right talent...in the right places, with the right messages. That takes smarts and creativity. Ideas and innovation. That takes great people of many talents. And that is exactly what we have at Shaker. There’s so much we can accomplish together. Join us.

In this role as a Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing applications that provide large employers with programmatic job distribution. This role involves collaborating with a team of developers to design, build, and deploy features that significantly impact customers.

• Develop and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Implement data storage solutions using various databases and storage systems
• Improve and maintain the performance and quality of applications.
• Contribute to all phases of the web development lifecycle
• Software development/maintenance - coding, documentation, system testing, etc.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
• Ensure code quality, organization, and automatization are upheld.
• Engage in code reviews and uphold best practices in software development.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for review.
• Code review other team members' code, support and teach other team members
• Maintain and debug issues as they arise; identify and resolve programming bottlenecks.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 to 8 years of experience in Ruby on Rails development.
• Proficient with shared libraries such as RSpec and Sidekiq.
• Solid understanding of Ruby syntax and its nuances.
• Deep expertise in the Bootstrap framework, HTML, PHP, SASS/LESS, GULP
• Deep experience writing modular and object-oriented code
• Firm grasp of object-oriented programming.
• Familiarity with MVC frameworks, ORM, and RESTful APIs.
• Skilled in writing clean, maintainable Ruby code.
• Experience with tools like Yarn, Bundler, and Rake.
• Capable of integrating diverse data sources and databases into seamless applications.
• Understanding of scalable application design fundamentals.
• Proficient in automated testing and unit tests.
• Experienced with code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Deep experience with JavaScript
• Excellent communication skills with strong attention to detail
• Occasional on-call availability for nights and weekends
• A high level of technical acumen and abilities to troubleshoot technical issues to resolution
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment

Good to have technical Skills:

• Experience in custom WordPress development and best practices (Gutenberg, ACF, custom templates)
• Experience in PHP and knowledge of the Laravel framework
• Knowledgeable in GA4 and setting up custom events and reports
• Experience with Bitbucket is considered a significant asset
• Ability to write custom scripts that ingest XML/JSON data and stores it in a database and/or API
• Experience creating XML/JSON feeds and custom APIs
• Deep experience with APIs, Google Cloud Talent Solutions experience is a plus (or other Google APIs)
• Experience with SSO, other types of authentications, GitHub, & MySQL Databases (Plesk server experience is a plus)
• Experience in Sketch and Invision

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.