Software Engineer - Ruby

As a Software Engineer you will be part of a team that builds out the technology powering our retail brokerage business and supporting our other business initiatives. We care about the speed and stability of our back-end systems as much as we care about the customer-facing applications we build. Our architecture is distributed and consistently evolving as our business grows and we face different technical challenges, but always with a focus on practicality and performance.

Ruby doesn't have to be your primary language today. If you're strong in another object-oriented language — Java, for example — and you're genuinely keen to make Ruby your day-to-day, we'd like to hear from you. Our technical interview is conducted in Ruby wherever possible, so you'd need to be comfortable enough to code in it by the time we meet.

• Work in multiple languages across different parts of the tastytrade stack and/or front-end trading client applications.
• Design, build and maintain services in a distributed architecture, thinking about failure modes, latency and data consistency as you go.
• Provide guidance and leadership to more junior members of the team when questions arise about language or implementation specifics, and contribute in a meaningful way to our peer review process.
• Translate requirements and technical direction into production-quality code with lightweight guidance from a senior engineer or team leadership.
• Work independently on smaller-scope tasks, as well as under the guidance of senior engineers to contribute to larger projects.
• Write comprehensive tests for your code.
• Engage in light infrastructure work to support application development work where applicable.
• Continue your growth by learning new systems and working towards ownership of tastytrade's systems.

• Demonstrable professional experience working as a software engineer on a team.