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At Shaker, we believe people can do impactful things. Especially our people. In this role, you’ll help us transform companies by connecting them to the right solutions for their most complex talent needs. Focused on helping organizations enhance their recruitment and retention results, you’ll collaborate with co-workers, partners, and clients to make it happen. Within our tight-knit community, you’ll see the future you create and enjoy the team support to learn, grow, and thrive. What could be more powerful than that? Connect to the Power of People, with Shaker.

In this role as a Senior Web Developer, you will play a crucial role in developing applications that provide large employers with programmatic job distribution. This role involves collaborating with a team of developers to design, build, and deploy features that significantly impact customers. 

• Develop and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code 
• Implement data storage solutions using various databases and storage systems 
• Improve and maintain the performance and quality of applications. 
• Contribute to all phases of the web development lifecycle 
• Software development/maintenance - coding, documentation, system testing, etc. 
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code 
• Ensure code quality, organization, and automatization are upheld. 
• Engage in code reviews and uphold best practices in software development. 
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for review. 
• Code review other team members' code, support and teach other team members 
• Maintain and debug issues as they arise; identify and resolve programming bottlenecks. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 
• 5 years of relevant professional experience. 
• 3 to 5 years of experience in Ruby on Rails development. 
• Proficient with shared libraries such as RSpec and Sidekiq. 
• Solid understanding of Ruby syntax and its nuances. 
• Deep expertise in the Bootstrap framework, HTML, PHP, SASS/LESS, GULP 
• Deep experience writing modular and object-oriented code 
• Firm grasp of object-oriented programming. 
• Familiarity with MVC frameworks, ORM, and RESTful APIs. 
• Skilled in writing clean, maintainable Ruby code. 
• Experience with tools like Yarn, Bundler, and Rake. 
• Capable of integrating diverse data sources and databases into seamless applications. 
• Understanding of scalable application design fundamentals. 
• Proficient in automated testing and unit tests. 
• Experienced with code versioning tools, such as Git. 
• Deep experience with JavaScript. 
• Excellent communication skills with strong attention to detail. 
• Experience in managing end-to-end project ownership. 
• Ability to work on a small team in a fast-paced environment. 
• Occasional on-call availability for nights and weekends. 
• A high level of technical acumen and ability to troubleshoot technical issues to resolution. 
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

Other Nice to Have Skills: 

• Experience in custom WordPress development and best practices (Gutenberg, ACF, custom templates). 
• Experience in PHP and knowledge of the Laravel framework. 
• Knowledgeable in GA4 and setting up custom events and reports. 
• Experience with Bitbucket is considered a significant asset. 
• Ability to write custom scripts that ingest XML/JSON data and stores it in a database and/or API. 
• Experience creating XML/JSON feeds and custom APIs. 
• Deep experience with APIs, Google Cloud Talent Solutions experience is a plus (or other Google APIs). 
• Experience with SSO, other types of authentications, GitHub, & MySQL Databases (Plesk server experience is a plus). 
• Experience in Sketch and Invision. 
• Experience leading a team of developers. 

Rewards and Career Advantages 

Within a culture defined by energy, fun, and talent, our team enjoys competitive pay, health and financial benefits, and the opportunity to work among innovative, friendly colleagues.  

About Us

Shaker Recruitment Marketing is the leading full-service talent marketing agency redefining how organizations attract, hire, and retain talent. With 75 years of expertise in branding, talent attraction, media, MarTech, and analytics, Shaker delivers strategies that lead with insight, fueled by creativity, and grounded in a legacy of trust and innovation.