Backend Developer

ROR

1-2 years of experience working with Ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.

Good experience with Redis, Sidekiq, and Docker.

Ability to write clean ruby code.

Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, Gitlab, and SVN.

Experience with AngularJS or React JS is a plus.

Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.

Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, Jquery, and CSS3.

Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim, Haml, and ERB.

Familiarity with tools like Jira, Postman, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

Responsibilities:

• Software Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, designers, and product managers, to design, develop, test, and maintain web applications using Ruby on Rails.
• Feature Development: Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and technical design to implementation and deployment of new features and enhancements.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while following best practices and coding standards. Perform code reviews to ensure code quality across the team.
• Database Management: Work with relational databases (e. g., PostgreSQL) to design, optimize, and maintain database schemas and queries.
• Bug Fixing and Troubleshooting: Identify and resolve software defects and performance issues. Conduct debugging and troubleshooting as needed.
• Testing: Develop and execute unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests to ensure the reliability and stability of the applications.
• API Integration: Integrate with third-party APIs and services as required for application functionality.
• Scalability: Contribute to the scalability of our applications to handle increased load and user traffic.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of code, processes, and systems to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding of new team members.
• Collaboration: Actively participate in Agile or Scrum development processes, attend sprint planning meetings, and provide status updates on tasks.
• Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies relevant to Ruby on Rails development.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as a Ruby on Rails developer, typically 3-8 years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency in Ruby, Rails, and associated libraries and frameworks.
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience with version control systems (e. g., Git) and collaboration tools (e. g., GitHub or GitLab).
• Knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational databases.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integration of third-party services.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Any additional certifications or experience with cloud services (e. g., AWS, Azure) would be a plus.

Key responsibilities

Write simple, understandable, testable, and efficient code with focus on solid technical stability and performance.

Drive technical improvement by applying software craftsmanship in everyday work as well as by identifying and executing larger refactoring/improvement initiatives.

Contribute in implementation of complex features and design work within the team.

Being part of cross team technical initiatives

Participate in and contribute to the team's Agile practices.

Take responsibility in maintaining high engineering standards, commitment to the product and respect and attitude towards others.

Skills:

Hands-on experience with modern Ruby on Rails practices and development. (1-2 years)

Experience with writing clean, maintainable and scalable code

Good awareness of the Ruby on Rails ecosystems and being in touch with the latest developments in this area

Experience in developing backend APIs/services, micro-service architecture.

Have a clear understanding of database technologies

Awareness/experience with testing methodologies like RSpec

A high-performance mindset to deliver good quality code and also an understanding of the product

Openness with working in a culture of inclusiveness and individual responsibility and experience with Agile methodologies.

Good communication skills – good knowledge of English, both written and oral

Good to have:

Working knowledge of react or other JS based frameworks.

Hands on experience with python, nodeJS, mongo db

Greetings from Amazon...!                                       

It is our pleasure in personally inviting you to apply job with Amazon Development Centre India (ADCI). At Amazon we are inclined to hire people with passion for technology and you happened to be one of the shortlisted candidates. Our business is committed to recognizing potential and creating teams that embrace innovation.

Please find the Eligible criteria and requirements:

Job title                             :             SDE – II (Software Development Engineer)
Role Opportunity            :             Permanent/Full Time/FTE/Regular

Work Location                 :             Hyderabad/Bangalore/ Gurgaon

Must Have

• Strong Exposure to Data Structures, Algorithms, Coding, System Design (LLD, HLD, OOAD), Distributed systems, problem solving skills, Architecture (MVC/Microservices), logical thinking.

Amazon (ADCI) - If you are looking for an opportunity to solve deep technical problems and build innovative solutions in a fast paced environment working with smart, passionate software developers, this might be the role for you. Amazon’s transportation systems get millions of packages to customers worldwide faster and cheaper while providing world class customer experience – from checkout to shipment tracking to delivery. Our software systems include services that handle thousands or requests per second, make business decisions impacting billions of dollars a year, integrate with a network of small and large carriers worldwide, manage business rules for millions of unique products, and improve experience for millions of online shoppers. With rapid expansion into new geographies, innovations in supply chain, delivery models and customer experience, increasingly complex transportation network, ever expanding selection of products and growing number of shipments worldwide, we have an opportunity to build software that scales the business, leads the industry through innovation and delights millions of customers worldwide.

As an SDE, you will develop a deep understanding of our business, work closely with development teams and own the architecture and end-to-end delivery of software components.

About Amazon India:

Amazon teams in India work on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, including Amazon websites across the world as well as support Payments, Transportation, and Digital products and services like the Kindle family of tablets, e-readers and the store. We are proud to have some of the finest talent and strong leaders with proven experience working to make Amazon the Earth’s most customer-centric company.

We made our foray into the Indian market with the launch of Junglee.com, enabling retailers in India to advertise their products to millions of Indian shoppers and drive targeted traffic to their stores. In June 2013, we launched http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in for shoppers in India. With http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in, we endeavor to give customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient online shopping experience. In just over a year of launching our India operations, we have expanded our offering to over 18 million products across 36 departments and 100s of categories! Our philosophy of working backwards from the customers is what drives our growth and success.

We will continue to strive to become a trusted and meaningful sales and logistics channel for retailers of all sizes across India and a fast, reliable and convenient online shopping destination for consumers. For us, it is always “Day 1” and we are committed to aggressively invest over the long-term and relentlessly focus on raising the bar for customer experience in India. Amazon India offers opportunities where you can dive right in, work with smart people on challenging problems and make an impact that contributes to the lives of millions. Join us so you can - Work Hard, Have Fun and Make History.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years’ experience building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field)
• The ability to take convert raw requirements into good design while exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs
• Expertise in System design (design patterns, LLD, HLD, Solid principle, OOAD, Distributed systems etc..), Architecture (MVC/Micro services).
• Good understanding of at least some of the modern programming languages (Java) and open-source technologies (C++, Python, Scala, C#, PHP, Ruby etc..)
• Excellence in technical communication
• Has experience in mentoring other software developers

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience developing service oriented architectures and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural vision and software quality
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
• Expertise in delivering high-quality, innovative application
• Strong desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Strong organizational and problem solving skills with great attention to detail
• Ability to triage issues, react well to changes, work with teams and ability to multi-task on multiple products and projects.
• Experience building highly scalable, high availability services
• The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator.
• He/she should have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and initiatives.
• He/she needs to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
• He/she needs to be constantly striving for simplicity, and at the same time demonstrate significant creativity, innovation and judgment
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language.
• Experience in SQL or Non-SQL database.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem solving skills.

Good to Have:

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with enterprise-wide systems
• Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
• Strong written and verbal communication skills preferred

Key Points to remember:

• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle methodology
• Technical design, development and implementation decisions on the use of technology in area(s) of specialization.
• Write or modify programming code to suit customer's needs.
• Unit test to assure meets requirements, including integration test as needed.
• Ability to understand and analyze issues and uses judgment to make decisions.
• Strong problem solving & troubleshooting skills
• Strong communication skills
• Responsible for self-development according to professional development plan

Opportunity in our Product Team?
Our system has over 4 products & 12 modules designed by product managers working with banking & finance experts. The company’s growth from here is based on a multi-product strategy. The way we’re scaling our product team is in-line with the company’s strategy.

Your customers are the CFOs & Finance Teams in mid to large scale enterprise businesses and you will build these products to solve the problems faced by them.

You’ll become familiar with all parts of our stack from end to end. You’ll design and implement features to be scalable and resilient by working with both our infrastructure engineers and our product engineers. You’ll be a driver for positive change to Finly’s engineering culture, processes and technology.

Here are some examples of the projects in the different products:
Payment automation by building a deep integration with multiple banking systems:

• Governance frameworks with policy controlled workflows.
• Core finance document management system.
• Automating reconciliation of transactions across business
• Collaboration tools among finance, vendors & employees.
• Continuous ETL for integrating with CRMs like Salesforce & Accounting Systems like SAP.

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU'LL

• Complete Finly’s new-hire training week, and learn Accounts Payable
• Processes & the various partners we work with to make Finly happen.
• Investigate, solve and release a bug fix to production. In order to do this you will ramp up on Finly’s engineering stack by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by the team.
• Meet with cross-functional peers around the company to learn how the product functions.
• Complete your engineering starter project and deploy your first changes to production.

WITHIN 3 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute reliably ship full features to customers.
• Own major product areas and take features from mock to deploy.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major features and initiatives.

WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Move to new product vertical & initiative and start designing and architecting scalable systems as per the requirements discussed with Product Manager.
• Have made a visible impact on the product for all the users of Finly.
• Work closely with your team to remove roadblocks, educate on best practices and improve how we work.
• Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new features
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture

WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute and lead teams to reliably ship full features to customers.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major products and initiatives.
• Define tools and standards for product engineering to measure performance impact of releases
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing and developing other learning opportunities
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.

So in this role, you will work with the respective team’s product manager and other engineers in that team. You may work on the front-end or backend or both based on the requirement of the project.

Join us & have the authority and responsibility to make things happen!