ROR Developer

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

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Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Job Description:

As a MERN Full Stack Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining web applications using the MERN (MongoDB, Postgresql, Express.js, React, Node.js) stack. You will work closely with our product and design teams to build high-quality, scalable, and efficient solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and Maintain Web Applications: Design, develop, and deploy full-stack web applications using the MERN stack.
• API Development and Integration: Create and integrate RESTful APIs.
• Database Management: Design and manage databases using MongoDB.
• Code Quality and Testing: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Implement unit tests and integration tests.
• Collaborate with Cross-functional Teams: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other developers to deliver high-quality products.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and implement performance improvements for existing applications.
• Stay Updated with Industry Trends: Keep abreast of latest trends and technologies in web development.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 3-4 years of professional experience as a Full Stack Developer.
• Technical Skills:
• PostgreSQL: Proficient in database design, indexing, and performance optimization.
• Express.js: Solid experience in building and managing APIs and middleware.
• React: Strong knowledge of React and related libraries (Redux, React Router, etc.).
• Node.js: Expertise in server-side development and asynchronous programming.
• HTML/CSS: Proficient in web markup and responsive design.
• JavaScript/TypeScript: Advanced proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Version Control: Experience with Git and Git workflows.
• Soft Skills:
• Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of GraphQL.
• Prior experience in Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with a talented and diverse team.
• Professional development opportunities.

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
• Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc. )
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant field.
• More than 3 years of experience in a ROR Developer (or similar role); experience in software development and infrastructure development is a plus
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec and Resque.
• Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Liquid, Slim, etc depending on your technology stack).
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as Sass, based on project requirements).
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful.
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code.

• Deliver features in an end-to-end manner: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Provide technical leadership and own specific areas of the platform.
• Work closely with Product Managers to translate product requirements to engineering specifications.
• Lead code review efforts and quality efforts in your area of ownership.
• Participate in product discussions, taking ownership and initiative.
• Work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Mentored and guide junior engineers.

Must Haves:

• Minimum 2 years of working experience in Ruby on Rails/ Python/ Node.JS.
• Strong problem-solving skills, data structures, and algorithms.
• Excellent experience on databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Familiarity with tools for code reviews, version control (GIT).
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby/ Python/Node.JS code.
• Experience in application server hosting and monitoring.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on with search platforms (Solr, Elasticsearch, etc).
• Prior experience with microservices-based architecture/SOA/distributed systems.
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Experience with common AWS service EC2, RDS, S3, SES, etc.

Key Competencies:

• Building Effective Team
• Solving Problems Creatively
• Learning Agility
• Drive For Result