Ruby on Rails Software Engineer (Guadalajara)

The Company

Wizeline is a global digital services company helping mid-size to Fortune 500 companies build, scale, and deliver high-quality digital products and services. 

We thrive in solving our customer’s challenges through human-centered experiences, digital core modernization, and intelligence everywhere (AI/ML and data). We help them succeed in building digital capabilities that bring technology to the core of their business.

Our People

At Wizeline, we are a team of near 2,000 people spread across 25+ countries. We understand that great technology begins with outstanding talent and diversity of thought. Our business was built on doing well and doing good, and our values of Ownership, Innovation, Community, and Diversity & Inclusion are embedded within our company’s DNA. We are committed to offering our Wizeliners the opportunity to create their career path and develop the skills needed to achieve their personal goals.

Community Impact

We are proud to contribute to local economies by developing technology ecosystems in places like Mexico, Colombia, and Vietnam. We also created Wizeline Academy, a free, community-based education program that teaches high-value skills to workers looking to advance their tech industry careers. As of 2022, Academy has served more than 28,000 students across 675 courses. Wizeliners have the opportunity to upskill by taking Wizeline Academy courses and can also share their expertise by delivering classes to students.

Your Day-to-Day

This job posting is for a Ruby on Rails Software Engineer on our Wizeline team. Here's what you'll be doing in your day-to-day work:

As a Software Engineer at Wizeline, you will advocate for the use of cutting-edge technology to build intelligent and scalable products. You will act as a technology partner for our clients from inception to completion while architecting reusable front-end systems. By understanding their needs and translating requirements into world-class design, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality applications.

Partner with multidisciplinary teams located across the world (Technical Writing, User Experience, Product Management, and Project Management) to solve challenging problems. As a relationship builder with direct communication with stakeholders, you will also drive internal initiatives and objectives.

You will work on projects that will allow you to develop your skills and gain exposure to multinational brands. We promote fun and continuous learning and we are proud of working with the brightest minds in the industry.

• Build scalable, responsive and elegant web applications
• Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale.
• Support, maintain and enhance existing web applications
• Develop new APIs to be consumed by millions of users.
• Write clean and maintainable code.

Are You a Fit?

Sounds awesome, right? Now, let’s make sure you’re a good fit for the role.

Must-have Skills

To be successful in this role, you need:

• Solve frontend and backend challenges using a variety of languages including but not limited to JavaScript, React, Ruby on Rails, PHP, HTML and CSS
• Build exciting new ideas from scratch while also improving and maintaining existing features across the Avail product
• Build and scale our backend infrastructure and services to meet fast-growing data demands of a national audience
• Advocate for good, clean, well-documented and performant code
• Translate design mockups into well-scoped and executable engineering tasks
• Collaborate with other developers through pair programming and collaborative code reviews
• Work closely with product designers, product managers, engineers, and customer support to deliver a compelling user-facing product, leveraging tools and frameworks such as React, Next.js, Typescript, GraphQL, Apollo, Webpack, and Ruby on Rails and CSS
• Provide thoughtful solutions to complex scaling and performance issues
• Care about and can identify security needs at all levels of the application
• Troubleshoot and solve production technical issues as they arise in a timely manner
• Participate in an “on call” schedule to ensure the product we deliver is stable, available, and high quality.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of professional experience working with and scaling a production React, Ruby, Rails, and/or Next.js web application, AWS, and writing CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and CircleCI.
• Broad understanding and experience using relational databases and SQL
• Excellent programming experience and a passion to continue learning new and familiar technologies
• Strong eye for design and user experience paired with the ability to bring design mockups to life
• Positive attitude, intellectual curiosity, and strong work ethic.

Why You Should Apply

Still not convinced you should apply? Here are some of the things that make Wizeline different from other technology services companies:

Our Values

At Wizeline, we value innovation, community, and ownership. Our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and respect fosters an environment where everyone does well and does good. We're proud to be recognized by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in response to our inclusive corporate policies and best practices for LGBTQ+ employees. 

Our Culture

We offer exceptional career growth and learning opportunities to our employees with skill development workshops, mentoring programs, and support for side projects or entrepreneurial work. We ranked 7th on Expansión’s Super Companies 2021 list.

Our Benefits and Perks

We offer competitive compensation and employee-centric benefits, including industry-leading maternity and paternity leave, wellness programs, and remote work opportunities. All Wizeliners have access to continuous learning opportunities through Wizeline Academy, including cloud certifications, mentorship, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, and in-house technical bootcamps developed by our experts in the field. 

In recognition of our superb employee benefits, we debuted on Quartz’s list of the Best Companies for Remote Workers and ranked 5th on Expansión’s Super Workspaces 2021 list.

Our Global Family

To support the global nature of our business and help our employees grow beyond their technical skills, we offer free virtual English and Spanish language classes as well as provide immigration support when applicable. Prior to COVID-19, we had a robust Work Abroad program in place, which we plan to continue once it’s safe to do so. 

#AllAreWelcomeHere

Wizeline creates and fosters a diverse, inclusive, and harassment-free workplace where everyone can achieve their potential. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.