Interfolio is on a mission to build smart, inspired and useful products for faculty and academic communities. By building an engine for faculty activity, decisions, and data, Interfolio has become the first mover in defining and owning the category of faculty-focused technology that cultivates goal-oriented collaboration around academic decision-making. 

Having recently joined world-renowned Elsevier’s Academics and Government portfolio, Interfolio’s industry leading faculty information system expands the global leader’s suite of information and analytics for the benefit of society.  Together, we offer colleges and universities increased insight into faculty data to help achieve their strategic initiatives, thus advancing the institution’s goals.

Come join our engineering team today! 

How you will make an impact:

• Build complex, large-scale, production-grade web apps and APIs using Ruby on Rails/Go
• Architect complex features and third party integrations
• Simplify technology in a way that internal stakeholders can understand
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code
• Take ownership of your projects from beginning to end
• Exhibit enthusiasm about sharing and adopting best practices with your team
• Be flexible-you understand the needs of a technology changes
• Be detail-oriented, a fast learner, and scrappy
• Contributing to and directing the efforts of engineering development teams, including internal and external team members to ensure complex/advanced product features/issues are resolved according to SLA’s.
• Support the Architecture 
• Participate in code reviews and ship code on a daily basis
• Participate in project scoping, resource planning, and timeline estimation

Core requirements:

• 5+ years of  web application development experience in an enterprise of consumer software development environment
• Experience with Ruby on Rails/Go/ in a component based architecture
• Experience integrating with back-end APIs via REST and GraphQL
• Experience building web applications having proper layers of abstraction, separation of concerns, reusable components, and containment
• Experience with Git version control
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills in English
• Ability to guide technical direction within a cross-functional engineering team
• Meticulous attention to technical and visual details, with a passion for delivering high-quality user experiences
• A passion for leading, mentoring, and developing other team members in the design, development, coding, testing, and debugging of applications.
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent at writing technical documentation
• Ability to work remotely and effectively manage your time
• You thrive in a fast paced environment
• Being a part of an engineering organization that exists to efficiently deliver high quality code to production that powers the business excites you!

Nice to haves:

• Full stack application development, including services development in Ruby on Rails/Go
• Familiarity with Docker is a plus
• Familiarity with Accessibility in web apps
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based web architectures (in AWS)