Fullstack Developer from Premium Colleges

As a Full-Stack Developer, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining our applications. You will be responsible for both front-end and back-end development, ensuring a seamless and efficient user experience. This is an excellent opportunity to grow with our startup and shape the future of our products.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain front-end applications using Flutter.

- Build and manage back-end services and APIs using Python.

- Implement read/write operations in SQL databases.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

- Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback

Seeking passionate and senior software engineers having 5+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails.

You are a full-stack engineer with an innate passion for writing elegant, idiomatic & pragmatic code.

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills. And you enjoy collaborating with others
• 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails or other Ruby frameworks
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts and design patterns
• Strong knowledge of relational database concepts, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Working knowledge of Javascript, DOM, CSS, HTML
• Strong experience with Git versioning system, PR review process, and Code quality metrics
• You understand the importance of concepts like "Test Driven Development" and utilize them to bring more stability & predictability in applications. We are a heavy user of RSpec, Unit Testing, Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployments (CD)

• Experience with modern Javascript libraries, frameworks & its ecosystem will be a huge plus. Example: React.js / Ember.js / Angular.js / Vue.js etc.
• Working knowledge or understanding of the SaaS ecosystem will be a plus
• Experience with Micro-service Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), GraphQL, and REST APIs will be a huge plus
• Knowledge of Sidekiq, Redis, Solr, Heroku, AWS will be a huge plus
• Experience working with Payment Gateways like Chargify, or Stripe will be a plus
• Contribution to open source projects, have participated in some technical community or meetups or interest group or have written or spoken in public about their technical ideas
• Inclination to develop your own gems or reusable components or libraries
• Exposure to cloud deployment on Amazon or deployment on Heroku or standalone virtual servers etc. (or exposure to PaaS)
• Inclination to develop your own gems or reusable components or libraries

• We're a remote-friendly and calm company
• We use the latest and powerful hardware for software development
• We are heavy on extreme programming and agile methodology. Our DNA is engineering practices like TDD, CI, CD, Code reviews, Pair programming, etc
• We love to collaborate and contribute to open source projects (check: https://www.github.com/kiprosh">Kiprosh Github)
• We encourage and help you to blog about your development experience with the rest of the world. (check: https://blog.kiprosh.com/">Kiprosh Engineering Blogs)
• Our dedicated CoE (Center of Excellence) group ensures that company-wide we all achieve excellence in the area of our interest, learn the latest and greatest, and keep sharing product & technology topics regularly across the organization
• Company-wide, we conduct monthly events to have fun together as a One Kiprosh team.
• We are big on rewards and recognition. We celebrate spotlight awards every quarter. We have yearly award ceremonies and celebrations. (check: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kiprosh">Kiprosh Linkedin Page)
• We have company-wide outings twice a year (but pause for a year since March 2020 due to Covid19 pandemic)
• We are a passionate group of humble, kind, and fun-loving individuals

**Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure**

Desired candidates must have 8+ years of total experience in backend development with good expertise in MEAN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, Node.js) and JavaScript, along with strong development and coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills.

Roles and Responsibilities :

What You'll Do

• Create the system architecture for any product from scratch as well as drive it for more than one development teams
• Design and deliver solutions that enable fast and efficient deployment of quality code to production
• Document the architectural blueprint and end to end design through flowcharts and diagrams.
• Set coding standards for development teams and ensure all released code is following standards
• Oversee the code review process, performing reviews when necessary
• Establish strong communication channels and relationships with the development teams, supporting them throughout the release cycle
• Continuously evaluate the existing software to identify areas of improvement and ensure architectural integrity as additional features are added.
• Lead DevOps and implement tooling and process improvements when you identify gaps
• Work with various stakeholders and identify the scope of the work, provide high level estimations, create a timeline and come up with the approach and design for the same.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Coach and mentor the development teams to improve the overall expertise and skills of the team.
• Take care of the development of critical components and POCs for new technologies to be used.
• Deliver high quality deliverables individually/as a team adhering to industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot any errors or issues that arise in the application/infrastructure components quickly and efficiently.

What You Bring

• 8+ years in software development or product engineering
• Proficient in MEAN Stack
• Good experience in backend development with Node.js
• Expertise in developing RESTful APIs
• Have created multi-transactional and highly redundant systems from ideation to production
• Customer-centric mindset
• Expertise in Agile SCRUM best practices
• Expertise in implementing front-end of applications using HTML5, Angular.js
• Proficient in MVC, OOPS concepts, Web Development Concepts, HTML, JSON, REST API development
• Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical concepts into something digestible by non-technical stakeholders

**Work remotely / Work From Home with BigStep Technologies throughout your tenure**

• The ideal candidate will have experience in development teams that work on business facing transactional systems.
• They will have demonstrated the ability to manage people, make architectural decisions, understand business
• processes to deliver the cleanest solutions.
• Share responsibility for implementing the firms accounting platforms. Partner with 3 rd parties (like Consulting Firms)
• and develop technical specifications.
• Share responsibility for availability, scalability, performance and capacity from development through production
• for a critical strategic build of the new accounting platform
• Reduce errors on deployments, improve reliability, and increase speed of implementation through automation
• Continuously refine and improve our toolset to improve our data and persistence layers

• 7+ years of experience in IT including some experience in architecture roles
• Experience building multi-tier, scalable, fault-tolerant web applications
• Experience with platform integrations and designing service APIs
• Extensive Service-Oriented Architecture patterns and design knowledge and familiarity with cloud based services
• Expertise with identity management, authentication and information security best practices
• Expertise in working with complex cross-domain applications in a global organization across multiple time zones
• Enjoys a fast paced, high-intensity and complex environment, troubleshooting time sensitive critical issues and working with people
• Extensive experience with multi-tier transactional architecture and design
• Extensive experience in enterprise software development in Java and web development stacks (Angular, NodeJS, HTML & CSS)
• Experience with Sybase, Cassandra
• Event / Stream processing technologies
• Experience using Agile methodologies – previous experience working from a backlog, sprints, retrospectives etc.
• Passionate about test driven, clean code, automatically tested and continuous deployment
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to present and convey ideas
• Strong attention to detail; action-oriented attitude, and willingness to roll up sleeves
• Curious to explore emerging technologies and learn new things
• Use metrics to drive decision making
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or similar discipline, Masters degree preferred
• Experience in the financial services industry is preferred                                                                                                                         

• Improving customer experience, not only for borrowers, but also other partners on the platform.
• Ensure seamless integration with data/ service providers and lending partners.
• When not doing any of above, write tests to prevent any regressions.

• Full-stack development experience.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Self-starter: Someone who can develop independently.
• Passionate about problem solving, ability to see the big picture.
• Realizes the value of 80-20

• Regular participation on Codechef, Topcoder etc. ( If yes, please cite your rank and pass on a link to your profile! )
• Prior experience at a bank / fin-tech / non-banking financial player in a technical role.