Ruby on Rails Full Stack Developer

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Ruby on Rails Full Stack Developer (Remote)

No Visa Sponsorship is available for this position.

This is a 3 year term appointment which may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.

This position is eligible for remote work within the United States. However, while the position is remote, periodic travel to Cornell University’s Ithaca, New York campus will be required for meetings, team collaboration, training, and other departmental or university business needs. The university reserves the right to modify, suspend, or terminate remote work arrangements in accordance with university policy and business needs.

About the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Leading at the intersection of people, business, and technology, the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business is one of the most comprehensive business schools in the nation and includes many areas of expertise not found in any other leading institution. The college is comprised of the university’s three accredited business schools, each of which is recognized as among the best in higher education: the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, and the Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration. Our academic research; industry and community engagement; and undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs all reflect the future of business: flexible, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary. The college community includes 232 research faculty, 46,000 alumni, and nearly 3,300 undergraduate, professional, and graduate students. The SC Johnson College of Business has an unparalleled resource base from which to draw—within the college, Cornell Tech in New York City, and Cornell University broadly.

Our Team:

The SC Johnson College of Business Information Technology (IT) department plays a critical role in the success of the College by providing the technology and systems required to fulfill the mission. Our team members collaborate and partner with customers, IT@Cornell, top peer business schools, and vendors to solve problems, provide innovative and valuable business solutions, and share knowledge and resources across the campus. The intimate knowledge of the business functions of the college, the IT department’s collaborative personal relationships with the customers and the pride in what they do helps to set them apart. The department enhances the ability for college personnel to do their jobs effectively and make their lives easier and more productive by providing flexible and user-friendly technology solutions which are helpful and provide a positive user experience. The department is agile and responds quickly as the priorities and needs change. The IT department believes in an ongoing investment in strengthening the team, in professional staff development and continually improving workplace satisfaction.

What will you do:

• Provide advanced software development support on a daily basis for the College custom applications. Analyze requirements for and design, develop, implement, maintain and upgrade Complex Rails end-to-end software systems and web pages in support of the information technology needs of the College.

• Design, develop, and maintain Ruby on Rails applications with complex relational database backends (Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.), selecting technologies (Ruby, Rails, PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, XHTML, XML, etc.) that best support maintainability, performance, and user experience.

• Design, code, test, debug, document and maintain complex programs or Rails end-to-end systems; develop enhancements that enable a positive end-user experience.

• Communicate with users for needs analysis and provide resolution.

• Establish and contribute to a detailed program specification through discussion with clients.
• Assist in research and fact-finding to develop or modify complex software systems; Formulate and define system scope and objectives to develop or modify complex software systems.
• Research, design, document, and modify software specifications throughout the production life cycle.
• Complete and document phases of projects.
• Create and implement project specifications/plans for projects with straightforward inter-dependency with other systems and/or projects.
• Modify…