About Job

CTC Undisclosed Job Location Canada Experience 3 - 6 yrs

Description

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help build GitHub. We're looking for a software engineer to join a passionate, collaborative, distributed group of engineers on our team.

The Repositories team is at the heart of GitHub, as we are responsible for carrying forward the front end and back end of GitHub Repos which are used by millions of developers everyday. We are focusing on new and exciting projects, existing features, and continuing to make GitHub workflows better for all developers. Were looking for front end, backend, and full stack developers. Come work on the tools you use every day!

## A day in the life of a Software Engineer

Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work asynchronously most of the time. Your typical week would include:

Collaborating with engineers, product management, design, and support to understand, prioritize, and solve problems

Opening a Pull Request to implement the next most important feature or fix the most critical bug

Responding to issues and review requests from other teams at GitHub

Reviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback

Working with your engineering manager in your one-on-one meetings to grow your team and career

Talking with customers to discover what they love and what their pain points are

Rotating responsibilities for oncall

## Responsibilities:

Write, test, instrument, document, and maintain code, primarily in Ruby

Write clear design docs and recommend solutions for technical problems

Analyze how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better

Collaboratively define and prioritize projects and tasks

Drive helpful conversations around technical issues and engineering practices, suggesting improvements and ideas as you see them

Review code and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback for your team

Triage, reproduce, and debug technical support requests, bugs, and feature requests reported by users in our Issues on GitHub

Provide compassionate technical mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others

## Minimum Qualifications:

3 years experience as a full-time professional developer

Experience with a modern OO programming language

Strong written communication skills

Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration

Experience working asynchronously on a remote, distributed team

Ability to learn and think critically about both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs

Familiarity with Git

## Preferred Qualifications:

There are only a handful of folks who meet all qualifications. Is this you? Excellent, please apply. But we care most about developers that have a track record of caring deeply about shipping software that helps people with their work. Either way, **we want to hear from you**.

Experience building, operating and maintaining resilient, scalable distributed services

Experience with Ruby on Rails

Experience with a modern JavaScript framework

Experience with CSS and HTML

Knowledge of testing, profiling, and debugging practices

Please note that this application is for GitHub Engineering and you may have the opportunity to be considered for multiple teams.

Ability to meet GitHub, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft, GitHubs parent company, Cloud Screen upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

#LI

Please note that this application is for GitHub Engineering and you may have the opportunity to be considered for multiple teams.

Ability to meet GitHub, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft, GitHubs parent company, Cloud Screen upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.