Ruby Software Engineer

at  University of California Irvine

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) is responsible for supporting the IT needs of UC Irvine faculty, students, and staff. Our mission is to provide information technology leadership, services, and innovative solutions to promote the research, education, and community service goals of the University. Our team delivers innovative Ruby on Rails solutions for UC Irvine and the broader University of California system via Software as a Service delivery and other models. You’ll be working with a small Agile team building and scaling Ruby on Rails applications to support recruitment, appointment, merit review, promotion, and other Academic Personnel processes. The University of California is one of the largest public university systems in the country, comprising 10 campuses, a combined student body of 280,000 students, 227,000 faculty and staff, and 2.0 million alumni living and working around the world.
Under the general supervision of the Assistant Manager, UC Recruit Application Support, the Ruby Software Engineer applies skills as a seasoned, experienced software professional with a full understanding of industry practices, community standards and relevant policies and procedures to medium-sized projects or portions of large projects with moderate scope and complexity. Resolves a wide range of issues. Demonstrates competency in selecting tools, methods and techniques to obtain results. Plans, designs, codes, tests, deploys, and maintains web applications and supporting tools. Develops using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, XML, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other technologies. Develops new enhancements, framework component upgrades, and automated tests for applications running in a 24/7 load balanced production environment in AWS. Uses revision control, issue tracking, code review, and other tools that facilitate team development activities. Adheres to the full Agile Scrum development process including implementation of designs and business requirements, code review, quality assurance and deployment.

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