Description:
Responsibilities:Create real value for Ably. Youll be a key member of the Web tea,m, contributing to strategic initiatives that drive developers to the Ably website, as well as increase sign ups and engagement over time.Deliver quality code. Youll be hands-on with development to build and deliver improvements and new features to Ablys customer-facing and internal frontends.Level up your team. Youll be helping steer the direction of our frontends, including our component library, used by multiple teams to deliver a consistent identity for Ably no matter where people see us online.Collaborate effectively. Youll be working closely with our Product & Design teams towards achieving the strategic goals of the company. Youll also work with people all across Ably as the projects we work on touch many different parts of the company.Focus on continual improvement. Whether its deliberately refactoring code to make our lives easier or updating our processes to be more effective, youll work to improve frontend development through improved engineering practices.Develop effective testing strategies. Youll be expected to test your own work, leaning on automation as much as possible. Youll constantly influence how we can improve our testing setup, helping the team unlock more potential along the way. When needed youll walk your team members and stakeholders through how to best test your work before it goes into production. More generally you willHandle security disclosures. We have an active vulnerability disclosure program, and from time to time youll be responsible for helping to resolve some extremely creative reports from security researchers.Support internal users. We help support our internal users when they have issues with our systems, or if they cant help resolve a customer issue without our intervention.Take responsibility for general maintenance. You'll review and handle dependency updates from Dependabot (both security and general, we like to stay fresh). Deal with Sentry reports that are affecting customers.Background:Strong Ruby & Ruby on Rails skills and significant professional experience using these technologies.Proficiency with modern HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Our frontends are a mix of technologies, and youll be supported by great frontend developers.A full-stack mindset and experience building full-stack applications with CI/CD, as well as understand and promote the importance of the latter.Experience with writing automated tests for software with tools like RSpec, Cypress (or Capybara/Cucumber).Cross-functional team experience. You have worked closely with designers and product managers in short, effective feedback loops.A solid grasp of Agile, Kanban and SCRUM principles and experience working with stakeholders to create and manage backlogs and delivery of work.Experience in dynamic, early stage startups where adaptability and resourcefulness are crucial.A transparent and collaborative "build in the open" mindset.
16 Apr 2024;
from:
gumtree.co.za