# \[rails-oceania\] \[Job\] Senior/Lead RoR developer (Brisbane only)

**URL:** <https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/rails-oceania-job-senior-lead-ror-developer-brisbane-only/750>\
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**Created:** [February 4, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/rails-oceania-job-senior-lead-ror-developer-brisbane-only/750 "2019-02-04T06:27:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![phlcastro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@phlcastro](https://forum.ruby.org.au/u/phlcastro)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.ruby.org.au/t/rails-oceania-job-senior-lead-ror-developer-brisbane-only/750/1 "2019-02-04T06:27:28Z")

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This position is available **on-site (Brisbane) only**.

If you are interested, please send your resume to [paulo@outfit.io](mailto:paulo@outfit.io)

**About the opportunity**

We want to hire exceptional talent to grow the [Outfit platform](https://outfit.io) and brand. You will be working with a dynamic, highly capable team of developers who love what they do and are always learning from each other.

You will be based in a collaborative work environment with an excellent culture and workspace. This is an opportunity to work with world-class technologies and develop solutions that will be adopted on a global scale.

At Outfit, there is genuine, ongoing opportunities to develop your career towards team or technical leadership.

This position reports to the Head of Technology.

**Success Factors and Skills**

- Initiative and accountability to prioritise tasks and make critical decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communications skills, with the ability to articulate yourself to both technical and non-technical people.
- Team-work skills including build rapport with others, giving and receiving feedback and facilitating internal discussions.
- **8+ years experience in test-driven practices, unit testing and mocking frameworks, applying those principles to large complex codebases.**
- **8+ years experience with back-end technologies (Ruby and Rails - JS and NodeJS is a plus), designs patterns and open source tools.**
- **3+ years experience in API design/delivery using RESTful, SOAP and GraphQL interfaces.**
- Good analytical skills for solution design, software build and problem resolution.

**Key responsibilities**

- Deliver production-ready solutions
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimisation and functionality
- Assist in the production of systems design artefacts such as integration plans, wireframes, process or workflow designs, and functional design documents
- Participate in deployment activities on a roster or as required basis
- Provide mentoring to other team members as well as others in the business as practical

**Outcomes**

- Transform business requirements and user stories in product features that may involve developing in different languages and technologies.
- Successfully design and implement business critical solutions that take into consideration security, high-availability and code maintenance.
- Continually perform code review and knowledge transfer to other developers on a regular basis.
- Support management team, partners and customers with technology knowledge advice.

**Applicant characteristics**

- You are passionate about elegant code, design patterns, software architecture, development best practices and abreast of new technologies, frameworks and other languages.
- You’re willing to learn and mentor other developers to achieve exceptional results.
- You demonstrate strong initiative and a proactive nature.
- You’ll be as committed to excellence as the rest of the team