seniordev

A consolidated senior dev job rec. (AKA development goals for a junior dev)._

Rails / Ruby / server-side

• BDD & TDD proficient with test frameworks such as RSpec, Capybara
• strong knowledge of MySQL, Postgres or other RDMS
• read and write data with direct SQL queries
• RESTful API design experience
• well-versed in MVC frameworks
• queueing / caching (Redis, Resque) and other tools (ElasticSearch / Solr / )
• building components that can scale to millions of users
• experience with cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud
• experience with service oriented architecture

Javascript / front-end

• understand JS promises and modules
• client-side MVC framework experience (angular, etc)
• toolkits (jquery, SASS/SCSS)
• insert messaging into the DOM
• strong HTML and CSS experience in cross-browser / cross-platform environments
• CSS transitions and tools for precompilation
• experience with RESTful Web Services, AJAX, JSON, and XML tools
• practice graceful degradation (for older browsers, back to IE8)
• responsive design, best SEO practices, accessability and rich, interactive content
• experience turning comps and wireframes into code
• know the guidelines and limitations of HTML emails/newsletters
• js testing - mocha, jade, jasmine
• understand how ES6 impacts javascript

General

• Strong software engineering fundamentals (expand!)
• solid debugging and troubleshooting skills
• regular expressions
• use of Agile project tools such as Rally or Pivotal Tracker
• ability to own projects end-to-end as demonstrated by significant open-source contributions, independent projects or startups

Leadership

• Provides technical leadership, guidance and mentoring for team members
• Can acts as a single point of contact for daily communication for technical aspects of the team’s product delivery
• Initiates and coordinates reviews with architecture and infrastructure when necessary
• Works with the product owner to ensure that architectural non-functional requirements in user stories are articulated and met
• Ensures that proper development documentation is being produced when appropriate

Environment

• working knowledge of Unix/Linux
• knowing things like tail, cron, fortune, and cowsay are very important.
• server configuration, replication and management tools (puppet, chef, docker).
• understand the hosting environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Phusion Passenger).
• familiarity with Capistrano, Git, GitHub, NewRelic

Computer Science

• expert knowledge of software design and architecture principles
• expert knowledge in object-oriented programming design and development
• data structures
• knowledge of network and software security

Additional languages / frameworks (in what order?)

• Golang
• Clojure
• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Scala
• iOS / Android
• CoffeeScript