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NinjaHoldings · 3 hours ago

NinjaCard - Staff Engineer

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

NinjaHoldings is a company focused on revolutionizing financial services for everyday Americans through their CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands. They are seeking a Staff Engineer to create technical strategies for key systems, ensuring platform scalability and extensibility while remaining hands-on with coding and infrastructure setup.

CreditFinancial ServicesLendingPayments

Responsibilities

Provide architectural leadership across a number of interdependent engineering teams, systems, business departments

Connect multiple independent systems to provide discoverable, visible, and clean customer data across marketing, operations, analytics, and product teams

Partner with business stakeholders to improve the tech stack for all the business needs, including but not limited to: data governance, reporting, and site performance analytics

Level up your teammates’ technical design and Ruby on Rails skillset

Contribute to architecture design and code reviews for all key application functional components

Provide critical thinking, technical innovation and attention to detail when serving as a trusted advisor and mentor to your team

Support QA, verification and validation activities to ensure system quality, functionality and performance

Code new features

Code bug fixes alongside your team when needed

Qualification

Ruby on RailsSystems architectureAPI designAgile methodologyCloud (AWS)CommunicatorData drivenProblem solvingMentorship

Required

10+ years of experience in software development with a focus on designing systems architecture, which includes hands on experience writing code or building infrastructure

8+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails

Demonstrated experience contributing in an Agile and TDD work environment building SaaS applications in the cloud (AWS)

Experience leading projects from inception to completion and have mentored other engineers

Solid understanding of building modern web apps at scale

Experience in building well-documented API's and third-party integrations

Deep understanding of API design and best practices

Data driven, analytical, strong communicator, who understands the big picture, but understands the importance of every detail

Natural problem solver who starts from the why, and uses first principles to get to a meaningful what and how