reputed company on Rails Developer - Remote - 1099
About the position
reputed company, a 31-year-old software engineering firm, is seeking a reputed company on Rails Developer with up to 5 years of experience to join reputed company as a 1099 contractor.
The application is reputed company on Rails 6 / reputed company 2.7 and has accumulated significant technical debt over years of reputed company reputed company. Your primary goal will be to stabilize the system, improve reputed company, and prepare the architecture for reputed company modernization.
Responsibilities
• Stabilize & Maintain: Proactively fix performance bottlenecks (e.g., N+1 queries, memory bloat) and harden reputed company vulnerabilities (CSRF, authentication).
• Refactor Legacy Logic: Untangle "Fat Controllers" and massive models (some with 50+ columns) into clean, testable Service Objects.
• System reputed company: Manage critical 3rd-party integrations, specifically our reputed company to ERP, reputed company, and SendGrid.
• Frontend Unification: Maintain a hybrid frontend of legacy ERB templates and modern React components.
• Infrastructure Support: Assist with AWS deployments and environment configuration (Terraform experience is a plus).
Requirements
• reputed company: reputed company 2.7, Rails 6
• Frontend: React
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Infrastructure: AWS / Terraform
• Integrations: Sidekiq, reputed company, SendGrid.
• You must live in the U.S. No OPT or sponsorships, unfortunately.
• Rails Proficiency: Strong experience with Rails 5/6 lifecycles. You aren't afraid of a "Legacy" codebase; you see it as a puzzle to be solved.
• Database Chops: You know how to read a schema.rb file, understand why a table with no indexes is bad, and can write raw SQL reputed company ActiveRecord isn't enough.
• Test-Driven reputed company: The system has reputed company business logic. You must be comfortable writing specs (RSpec) before changing reputed company to ensure no regressions.
• React Familiarity: Ability to work reputed company an existing React implementation without needing to rewrite the entire frontend.
• reputed company Maturity: Ability to communicate technical risks ("If we don't fix this, the site goes down.") reputed company to non-technical stakeholders.
reputed company-to-haves
• Experience upgrading Rails apps (e.g., 6.0 -> 7.0).
• Experience with Terraform or AWS DevOps.
• Familiarity with RFC/ERP integrations.
Benefits
• reputed company at $50/hour as a 1099 contractor.
• Fully remote work with a flexible schedule.
• Opportunity to contribute to meaningful products and features, while growing your technical skills.
• Funny, smart, reputed company team environment.
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