Sr Software Engineer

We are seeking a Sr Software Engineer to join our growing team!

About Us

Community Brands provides a connected network of solutions that enable mission-driven organizations to thrive. Our software powers non-profits, associations, and K-12 schools to engage the people they serve through programs and events, raise funds to enable their mission, and manage their financials and operations. Our family of brands are bound by a common purpose to serve the organizations that make our communities a better place to live. With over 1,600 employees in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, India, and the Philippines, we know that our success is driven entirely by the people of Community Brands. Through professional opportunity, we strive to give each person a clear path to success and personal growth. We embrace diversity and believe that our differences in experience and perspective are the key to our sustained success.

A Day in the Life

In this role candidate will:

• Develop application code according to requirements and assigned tasks.
• Contribute to lifecycle Flow and value streams by following and prescribing methodologies and best practices.
• Mentor and coach junior development team members.
• Solve the most difficult software development challenges.
• Maintain balance of business and technical acumen in decision making.
• Contribute to source-code management and work item tracking best practices.
• Contribute to the estimation process during planning exercises.
• Provide consultation to development management team.

Competencies:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good team player and good sense of humor.
• Thorough attention to code quality and reviewing code.
• Ability to manage multiple date-driven tasks concurrently.
• Good communication and documentation skills
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-starter with a natural willingness to get the job done.
• Subscribe to a continuous learning philosophy.
• Demonstrate expertise and mastery in your area of technology and industry.

We would love to chat if you have...

Must Have Skills:

• 6+ years of professional web development experience
• At least 5+ years of experience in Architect, Design and Develop applications using Ruby on Rails.
• Strong knowledge of Object-oriented programming (OOP) design and principles.
• Strong knowledge of the ORM layer.
• TDD experience. Writing good unit tests and integration tests, preferably using RSpec.
• Architect’s solutions to maximize scalability, performance, and security.
• Expertise with MVC and MVVM frameworks/architecture such as Rails and/or J2EE.
• Experience developing Restful APIs.
• Experience with caching and queuing mechanisms like RabbitMQ, Sidekiq, Kafka.
• Expertise working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/JQuery.
• Developing highly optimized database applications/Queries based on SQL. Experience working in one or more RDBMS like MySQL or Oracle
• Agile development experience using one of the scrum tools like Jira.
• Experience with git and version control software like github or bitbucket.
• Authentication and Authorization using SAML and/or OAuth 2.0
• Experience in deploying to cloud and managing it. Experience with AWS is huge plus.
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Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Java or any other backend programming skills will be an added advantage.
• Experience with developing micro services.
• Knowledge of GraphQL. Understanding of webpack and NodeJS.
• Experience with Performance testing and APMs at enterprise level.
• Experience with developing payment systems. Knowledge of PCI requirements.

Why work here?

Good People, Doing Good Things: Employees at Community Brands are techies and volunteers who strive to make the Company a great place to work. We dream big and are motivated to help our customers use the technology we create to improve the world around us.

• Planned Paid Time Off  
• Purpose-Driven Culture  
• Work-Life Balance  

• Passionate About Community Involvement  
• Company Paid Parental Leave 

 
All persons hired will be required to: 

• Verify their identity, 
• Verify they are eligible to work (without sponsorship) in the country they are to be employed in, and 

• Complete any required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.