Ruby Developer

Based in Washington, D.C., Quorum is a fast-growing software company and is the leading provider of workflow software and information services for government affairs professionals across the corporations, non-profits, associations, and governmental end-markets. Quorum allows users to manage stakeholder engagement, launch grassroots advocacy campaigns, and track legislative activity at all levels of government, including federal, state and local.
Quorum provides mission-critical solutions to public affairs professionals for their work in Congress, all 50 state legislatures, major U.S. cities, the European Union, and 30+ countries around the globe. Quorum serves over 2,000 customers globally including over 50% of the Fortune 100, and has over 350 team members across the globe. The company recently acquired Capitol Canary, a market leader in grassroots advocacy software.
As a **Ruby Developer**, you will report to an Engineering Manager and work on backend systems using tools/technologies like Ruby, React, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, AWS, and much more.
**What You'll Do**
- **First Week**: You'll ship new code to production
- **First Month**: You'll write code at different components of the system
- **First Six Months**:You'll take ownership of an entire set of features and make decisions that impact many clients
- **First Year**:You'll help guide our team as we make broad technical decisions impacting our stack, our products, and the growth of the entire company
**About You**
- You care deeply about the code you write and either have significant technical skills solving real-world problems or the drive to quickly develop them
- You're a highly-motivated self-starter who wants to make valuable contributions to a team from day 1
- You're an engaged learner—you want to expand your skills, get your hands dirty, and find solutions to challenging problems that require tradeoffs
- You want to work in a fun environment where you can form real friendships with other professionals and where you have a strong sense of belonging at a growing startup
- You're excited to pitch in where ever needed, from helping in recruiting to supporting customers
- You are looking to join a dynamic team immediately
**What would we like to see in You**
- 2+ years of work experience at a company that produces software for end users as it primary function
- Experience with queueing systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ, including an understanding of basic principles and tasks like connecting/publishing messages and consuming/routing messages
- Experience deploying in Kubernetes, including connecting to pods, interpreting logs, scaling, and building simple deployment configs
- Experience with monitoring systems like DataDog, including working with traces and alerting
- Basic knowledge of React or similar frontend JavaScript framework
- Basic knowledge of relational databases, including building and parsing SQL queries as well as system tuning for performance
- You not only the care about the quality of code you write but also has a strong desire to build skills of those around through code review and mentorship
- You are interested in exploring new technologies and finding the best fit for any given project
**About the Software Development Team**
- We're a fast-growing team that is dedicated to improving our people, processes, and platform. The multi-cultural team is composed of a DevOps team, the software engineering team, the Product Management team, the Product Design team, and an Information Security team.
- We support many different products but internally think of them as one system with a single unified codebase. Our goal is to build centralized systems that handle complex problems for multiple features and products.
- We're focused on doing the important things the right way - we write solid documentation, test our code well, design for scale, and follow defined software development processes.
- We curate high-quality datasets that are essential for effective mapping and tracking of the government and public affairs spaces. Our datasets underpin our promise to give users the information necessary to make smart decisions that influence policy.
- We set rigorous quality standards and monitor them with a mix of programmatic and manual verifications to ensure users maintain a high degree of trust in our systems.
- We're very close as a team and invest not only in each others' skills and careers but also in building real relationships with one another: product development is a team sport and we believe that it's better (and more fun) to work on a team of people that you know well and care about.
**Our Work **Environment**
- We are a hybrid team with flexible work options: work remotely or choose to come into our vibrant, sunlit space in our modern, open concept office in Washington DC.
- Our office building is located in the heart of downtown DC, easily accessible by metro, bus, and rideshares. It is also in close proximity to

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