Ruby on Rails Developer

Jigsaw uses an open source e-learning management system, Canvas, to provide e-learning to her students. We have heavily customized this open source LMS to make it user-friendly, high performing and have world-class features for making the product a one of its kind. Effort is to improve the product continuously. The employee’s key responsibilities are:

• Understand the objectives and future aspirations for the product.

• Break down business requirements into technical solutions.
• Understand the existing architecture and propose improvements where possible
• Write well designed, testable, efficient and reusable code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities related to e-learning.
• Provide IT support for the LMS as needed. Create and maintain software documentation.

Skill Requirements:

• Proficiency in ruby on rails framework
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Knowledge of concurrency patterns in ror framework
• Knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
• Experience with both external and embedded databases
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Basic understanding of nginx server, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Past work on any learning management system will be a bonus, more so if it is Canvas.