About the role:

Blackbaud is looking for a Ruby/Elixir Software Engineer to work on Blackbaud Award Management, a market-leading scholarship solution. The engineer will be joining our development teams to develop and enhance web-based applications, and working with some of the latest technologies in user interfaces, server architecture and cloud based computing. Our relaxed work environment promotes open seating, paired programming, cross team collaboration, efficient communication, Scrum methodologies and TDD principles. Engineers at Blackbaud are thought leaders in our department and local development community.

What you'll be doing:

•  Implement important elements of the application software architecture and application infrastructure.
•  Design and develop software applications, project prototypes, proofs of concept & client demos
•  Champion TDD and Agile best practices for your product team
•  Evaluate performance of critical application components and optimize them to assure maximum performance and scalability
•  Perform, design and code reviews for all key application functional components
•  Contribute to requirement definitions for project design and code reviews
•  Participate in performance reviews of team members and in the interview process of new candidates
•  Work closely with the product manager and other team members to coordinate schedules, identify task assignments and provide progress updates at daily standup meetings

What we'll want you to have:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or possess equivalent work experience
• 1+ years relevant Software Engineering experience
• Experience developing complex web-based, high transaction, high volume, distributed systems offered in a SaaS model
• Experience with some of the following technologies: Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, Angular, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, PostgresQL
• Experience with software development methodologies such as agile and TDD
• Good knowledge of web services and related standards

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