Posted Dec 22

Senior Ruby Chatbot Developer

Remote Full time

Overview

As a product-led company, Mav (the product) is at the core of everything we do at the company. Our product team is growing and we're looking for a Senior Chatbot Developer with a growth mindset, who loves to learn and wants a large scope of ownership within our fast growing company.


The features you build will have a direct impact on our customers and our company, and you'll work directly with the CEO and Founder (who is a developer himself) on a daily basis.


The ideal candidate is proficient in modern Ruby and Chatbot development. We will bring you in during the product planning meetings and give you the freedom to work hard and fast, while also keeping the Mav chatbot service in high performance.


Responsibilities:

  • Attend product planning meetings and playing an active role in scoping out new features directly with founders.

  • Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby chatbot code.

  • Maintain and own our internal chatbot fulfillment service called Kuiper - Forked from the popular Ruby framework Stealth.

  • Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.

  • Maintain and improve our Github CI and Heroku Production environments.


Qualifications:

  • 1+ years of experience developing chatbots

  • 5+ years of experience building Ruby-based applications (Rails, Redis, Sidekiq, etc)

  • Understanding of the fundamentals of a good chatbot (Design, Implementation, State Machines, NLP, Sessions, Etc.)

  • Experience with Stealth, the Ruby chatbot platform

  • Experience with NLP engines (Microsoft LUIS, Wit.ai and Dialogflow)

  • Experience with the Twilio API

  • Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances

  • Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

  • Ability to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests in RSpec

  • Familiarity with development aiding tools such as VSCode

  • Familiarity with continuous integration, specifically Github Actions

  • Familiarity with Heroku and Heroku Pipelines

  • Familiarity with workflow tools such as Clickup, Slack, Hubspot, etc. a plus


What's In It for You:

  • Fast, exciting start-up environment

  • Full platform ownership

  • Meaningful equity

  • Benefits

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