At Cast & Crew, we’ve empowered creativity and supported the global entertainment industry for decades. Together with our family of brands - Backstage, CAPS, Checks & Balances, Final Draft, Media Services, Sargent-Disc, and The TEAM Companies – we operate as a combined entertainment technology and services provider offering industry standard screenwriting accounting software, digital payroll products, data & reporting, and a host of creative tools. The industry continues to move faster than ever, and the need for our expertise, our technology, and our people has never been greater. We are a production’s best ally every step of the way. #OneCastOneCrew

About FilmFreeway

FilmFreeway is the home of the Film Industry's top festivals and filmmakers. Trusted by brands including HBO, The Oscars®, ESPN, NBC-Universal, Lionsgate, PBS, NPR and more, FilmFreeway is the world’s leading film festival marketplace. Every day, thousands of filmmakers, writers and artists use FilmFreeway to submit to over 12,000 of the world’s best film festivals and contests (including 150+ Oscar and BAFTA qualifying festivals). FilmFreeway is setting the industry standard for how filmmakers and fans discover, submit, and get tickets to thousands of film festivals and creative contests worldwide.

About TCS

TCS' mission is to empower creative talent and streamline the content creation process for projects in film, television, commercials/branded content, social media, theater, music video, video games, and more. We provide solutions that manage the entire project lifecycle, including talent discovery and staffing, production, post production, and distribution. Our brands include Backstage, Coverfly, FilmFreeway, Final Draft, ShareGrid, and Voice123.

TCS is the creative services division of Cast & Crew, a family of individually innovative companies modernizing the ways in which content is created.

The Role:

FilmFreeway is seeking a Senior Ruby Engineer to build and optimize the best user-focused product serving the film industry. Our small but mighty engineering team of two. We are a team that values independence and autonomy, and trust our engineers to pick the best tools suited for their tasks, while working collaboratively towards mutual goals.

We adhere to agile principles with a modified Kanban process, where we collectively contribute to several projects at a time, leveraging Jira to create tickets. From there, we brainstorm issues, assign and manage work, and deploy changes. We create WIP PRs and communicate on code changes as they're happening, and use PRs to help indicate when work is ready to be reviewed and deployed.

As Senior Ruby Engineer, you will be working on the entire system, including feature development, production reliability, infrastructure, maintenance, upgrades, tooling, bugs, and troubleshooting. You will be partnering with our product and customer support teams to design and architect new features that will solve the pain points of our customers. While this is an individual contributor role, you will also be guiding technical decisions, and providing code reviews. Your work will have a direct impact on our very fast-growing community and will be seen and used by millions of people around the world!

The Senior Ruby Engineer will report to FilmFreeeway’s General Manager.

What You’ll Do:

Lead feature development while managing timelines and stakeholder expectations
Collaborate with designers and product developers to conceptualize and build new features end-to-end
Design, write and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby and JavaScript code
Establish processes to ensure maintainability of new code; upgrade old code to new standards via refactor and replacement
Write automated tests to ensure proper code coverage for new features
Plan, develop, upgrade, and maintain current and future infrastructure and frameworks
Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues while coordinating with the Support team to deliver the best possible user experience
Monitor system instrumentation to optimize performance
Investigate and implement new web development technologies and best practices, as applicable
Identify any bottlenecks or bugs in the system and devise solutions
Work in a collaborative environment where you will need to coordinate with and mentor other team members and department

What we’re looking for from you:

Demonstrated prior experience leading feature development (delegating, code reviews, overseeing projects to completion) and shipping software in a professional team setting
Strong project management skills; ability to create timelines, prioritize tasks, and communicate with stakeholders
Familiarity with project management software such as JIRA to manage tasks and coordinate with others
8+ years of experience working with Ruby on Rails
Demonstrated ability to create and improve well-architected, readable code that conforms to established best practices and RESTful principles
Deep knowledge of the standard Ruby library
Experience upgrading Ruby on Rails (RoR) between major versions
4+ years of experience using ReactJS or a comparable frontend framework for building user forms and interactions
Knowledge of responsive styling using CSS and preprocessors like SCSS and SASS
Experience with ElasticSearch and full-text indexing of content
Experience with caching solutions such as Memcached and Redis
Experience integrating with third-party payment solutions such as Stripe, PayPal, and Dwolla
Familiarity with Amazon Web Services, including security and deployment best practices, EC2, S3, RDS, Elasticache, Elastic Transcoder, and OpenSearch
Experience managing Linux servers from “fresh install” to “running production stable”; ability to provision systems using Ansible and comfortable with command-line tools
Experience monitoring and managing the WAF firewall and network optimization through Cloudflare
Experience creating small utilities through AWS lambda or Cloudflare workers
Ability to implement automated testing of your code, particularly integration testing via Selenium / Capybara
Competency working with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and experience designing database schema, particularly in relation to Ruby on Rails / ActiveRecord.
Familiarity working with mass email systems such as Sendgrid
Experience writing both client and server side (Node.js) Javascript

Compensation is commensurate with various factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, qualifications, skills, training, licensure, certifications, geographic cost of labor, and other business and organizational needs. Compensation range for candidates in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

The compensation range for this position is:

$150,000—$180,000 USD

Benefits

Cast & Crew provides a comprehensive package of employee benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, health and wellness programs, employee discounts, and more! Note: Cast & Crew benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.

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