Overview

The Algorithmic Transparency Institute is a project of The National Conference On Citizenship (NCoC), a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening civic life in America. We build technical infrastructure enabling accountability research and journalism about the impact of algorithms on society.

We are seeking a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer to refine and improve a tech stack that ingests large volumes of data for indexing and high performance retrieval based on complex search requests. This is a permanent, full time position. The project is fully remote.

Who You Are

  • You are excited to work on a public purpose technology project focused on improving information quality and protecting democracy
  • You are a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer with experience refactoring, improving test coverage, and optimizing a large-scale ruby on rails application that:
    • Uses Elasticsearch extensively via searchkick
    • Processes data using background workers with sidekiq / redis
    • Is deployed  on Heroku
    • Integrates with numerous external APIs
    • Provides developer APIs to enable integrations and data extraction
    • Is rapidly developed in response to user-needs and feature requests
  • You are focused on the backend but understand and support the needs for your teammates who are focussed on implementing front end solutions.
  • You have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/combined education, with 5+ years of professional experience

Technical Experience

  • Significant Ruby on Rails ecosystem fluency
  • Postgres
  • Elasticsearch
  • AWS administration
  • Rspec / test-driven development
  • Continuous Integration
  • Twilio

Desirable Qualifications

  • Experience with enterprise level architecture design and development
  • Experience with multiple scripting & programming languages
  • Good debugging and troubleshooting skills
  • Good written and oral communication skills

How to Apply

To apply for a position, please email your cover letter and resume to jobs@ncoc.org. Please include the position title in the subject of your email. Please no telephone calls or additional emails.