Independent Contractor Ruby Rails Developer Jobs in New York, NY

Novigo Solutions is an end-to-end IT Solutions provider, specialized in full cycle IT services and platform solutions. Novigo focuses mainly on latest technology platforms like Microsoft SharePoint , SalesForce , BI, RPA, E-Content Services, ERP Implementation & Support Services and Mobile Technologies. Novigo has over 200+ full time technical experts working on several leading technology platforms and serving Fortune 500 clients across the globe. Novigo aims to support clients business in a long-term relationship mode. With its unique delivery model, it helps the clients to achieve significant cost saving and business success. Novigo is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and has development centers in Bangalore and Mangalore. Novigo currently operates from India, US, UAE, Oman, KSA and Singapore.

Experienced full stack Ruby developer to work within teams that are and delivery enterprise financial services middle office systems that transact a high volume of the diverse asset class. In this role, you will not only be designing and coding applications, but mentoring other developers to help build a world-class software engineering capability within the Middle Office Technology Group.

Job responsibilities and opportunities:

• Drive the design and implementation of scalable, high performing and robust applications.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential issues, and devise contingency plans.
• Available to provide advice and assistance to teams on technical difficulties that arise in the course of doing their work
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to more junior engineers including code reviews and diving into coding assignments when necessary as well as defining and implementing best in class standards.
• Identifying issues to teams that they might overlook, such as scalability, performance, or security.
• Analyze and discuss potential risk/benefits involved in using the specified technology solution to address the business requirement

Consults with internal business groups to provide high-level application software development services or technical support. Provides comprehensive senior-level technical consulting to IT management and senior technical staffs. Evaluates compliance with the organization's technology standards. Works with internal business groups on implementation opportunities, challenges, and requirements of various applications. Analyzes information and provides recommendations to address and resolve business issues for a specific business group. Guides and consults with IT management and technical staffs regarding use of emerging technologies and associated services. Participates in defining corporate implementation and integration strategies of new technologies. Advocates for innovative, creative technology solutions. Contributes to the achievement of area objectives.

Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, 10-12 years of experience in software development required, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.

• At least 7 years' experience in financial services with experience in high volume trading systems.
• Must have at least 1 year as a Ruby Full Stack Developer along with experience with Docker and 7 or more years of professional software development experience.
• At least 3 years of experience with agile software development methodologies, tools, and processes.
• At least 1 year of messaging development experience with Rabbit MQ or IBM MQ.

Technical Skills / Attributes Required

Our current stack includes Ruby, Rails, Active Records, RSpec, Cucumber, and Docker.  We use both Postgres and Oracle as our RDBMS and IBM WMQ and Kafka for messaging.  For the UI were using AngularJS, React and Bootstrap CSS and our tool stack include GIT, Jenkins, JIRA, and Confluence.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.