ROR developer

Backend/Fullstack Developer

 

About the Company:

Company is India’s largest and best-established digital wealth management service that helps its customers create wealth for their long-and-short-term goals. Founded in 2012, Company is a pioneer in the digital financial services category and is recognised for creating simple and elegant user experiences in a complex domain. We do this by simplifying complex investing concepts and automating best practices, so our customers can grow their wealth without worry. We achieve this by combining cutting-edge technology, data-driven algorithms, awesome UX and friendly customer support. Our task is ambitious and we like to work hard as well as smart. We want to build a team that relishes challenges and contributes to a new way of thinking and investing in India. We are also invested in the growth of our colleagues and providing a supportive and thriving working environment for everyone. We have been recognised by Great Place To Work® as one of India’s best companies to work for.

Role specific info:

• 4-12 years of experience building good quality production software
• Excellent knowledge of at least one ecosystem based on Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Go/Scala/Clojure
• Good OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
• Familiar with datastores like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Redshift etc.
• Familiarity with react.js/react-native, vue.js etc. • Knowledge of deploying software to AWS, GCP, Azure
• Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Integration (CI)

 

What would you do here:

• Writing quality code using language best practices.
• Working in a highly collaborative team.
• Building good software using the latest tools and techniques.
• Participating in design reviews, coding modules, code reviews and unit testing.
• Taking ownership of quality and usability of your code.
• Mentoring co-workers.
• Leading efforts in improving technology architecture.

• 3+ years of experience in Ruby / RoR
  • Experience with data files processing (xls, csv, json, xls, text: 834, NACHA, segments)
  • Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL)
  • Experience with Git
  • Good written and spoken English (Intermediate and higher)
  • Experience deploying Rails applications
  • RESTful API, JSON API

 

Will be a plus:
• Experience working with Unit and Integration Testing (Rspec, Capybara)
• Experience of integration with 3rd party systems and services and cloud technologies ( AWS stack: EC2, RDS, S3, etc.)
• Experience with RuboCop, JSHint/JSLint
• Experience with Microservice Architecture
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3
• Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks — Ember.js, Vue.js

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What excites you about this role: • You are passionate about developing simple, elegant websites to complex websites that handle custom functionality. • You are excited about existing/future innovative projects which include edge computing, mobile/web/client applications, cloud, machine learning, AI, and analytics • You enjoy working directly with customers across the globe including USA, Canada, UK & Australia. What excites us about you: • You are skilled with web front end technologies including experience with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS OR mobile app technologies. • You possess demonstrated experience in responsive web development (HTML5 CSS3, JavaScript) • Experience developing highly interactive applications • A firm grasp of object oriented analysis and design • Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code • Good knowledge of relational databases • Working knowledge of NoSQL databases • You are experienced in Linux OS Environments like Ubuntu, Centos, RHEL • You have previous experience in working & deploying in AWS environment • You have a basic understanding of the important AWS Services like EC2, Lambda, Dynamo DB etc • You have experience with high traffic, multi-tier web applications / SaaS web applications • You have experience developing applications based on wireframe designs • You are good at fixing and applying security measures • You are responsible for meeting expectations and deliverables on time and in high quality • You will effectively develop in a clean, well-structured, easily maintainable format • You will demonstrate creative, technical and analytical skills • You have an interest in keeping up to date with the latest web technologies • You possess the confidence to work autonomously within a small team environment • You are able to manage multiple tasks/priorities with tight deadlines • You have an ability to clearly communicate technical jargon in plain language, both verbally and in writing We take care of our own: • Best in class packages • Paid holidays and flexible paid time away • Casual dress code and flexible working environment • Medical Insurance coverage of 4lakhs per family member

What we're looking for:
The ideal candidate should demonstrate the following:
- Fluency in Ruby on Rails, RDBMS & Nosql and Background Job process management.
- Working experience of JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3, jQuery (show us what you have created!)
- Experience with Angular.JS, Node.JS, PWA, AWS, Google Cloud a major plus
- Excellent problem solving skills and ability to break complex problems into simpler tasks
- Hard working, self-starter, proven ability to manage multiple projects to strict deadlines
- Ability to participate in high level strategy discussions, work in areas outside of your comfort zone, and work quickly to get things done

What is expected of you:
Responsible for architecting and implementing optimal development processes, leading the entire development team, making major decisions, conducting code reviews with a hands on approach to the development of all front-end/back-end and/or mobile functionality.

Icicle is looking for an experienced RoR developer who can effortlessly build with us the cleanest of all designs. We're looking for passionate Ruby on Rails developers to join our IT team in Mumbai.

Icicle builds Web & Mobile products for Startups, Brands, Digital Agencies and Enterprises, helping in bringing their ideas to life. More - www.icicletech.com

The team consists of bright young designers, hackers, senior developers, startup specialists. We are distributed with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and New York. More - www.icicletech.com

What will you do?

As a Ruby on Rails developer, you will get to:

• Participates as an independent contributor on an agile development team working closely with team members to effectively deliver high quality code.
• Complete ownership of a product or feature from development to launch.
• Coordinate and participate in the code review process to ensure delivery of high-quality, testable code using best practices and current software patterns.
• Review and mentor other team members. Be a team player!
• Get complete control of the product with active involvement in deciding stack and architecture.

What we are looking for

• Minimum 3+ years in depth hard core experience in Ruby on Rails
• Deep understanding of object-orientated programming
• A knack for writing clean, readable maintainable Ruby code.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Skillset in Testing using Rspec
• Demonstrated skills and experience with writing testable code and using related best practices.
• Understanding of web services technologies such as REST is required.
• Good experience and understanding of continuous integration and deployment process.
• Knowledge in working with AWS or other cloud platform
• Experience in working with limited direction while exceeding delivery expectations.
• Great communication, particularly in explaining your coding processes, suggestions for best practices, and identifying ways to improve the teams coding quality.

Technical Expertise
Core

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, Rest API
Databases

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
Testing

Rspec (or any other Unit testing framework)
Cloud/Deployments

Capistrano, Docker, Heroku, AWS, Kubernetes

Desirable Skills

• Participation in open-source projects.
• Actively involved in solving problems on Github, Stackoverflow.com and groups.
• Experience working in JS and front end frameworks (React)
• Interest in learning new technologies.

Why Icicle

• 100% work-life balance
• Competitive salary
• Perks of getting free Gym Membership vouchers.
• Medical checkup Vouchers with topnotch hospitals and coupons for medical bills.
• Exposure to futuristic technology, mentally stimulating work environment.
• Opportunity to work with a big team of experienced, committed, talented people with a great sense of humour.
• Stability of a legacy company and agility of a startup - best of both the world.
• A healthy work environment with no politics, no bureaucracy.
• Encouraged to learn new skills, grow together, not just maintain the status quo

So, if you have 3+ years of experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails, apply today!

 

Responsibilities:

• Writes high quality code & unit tests, builds, tests as per agreed timelines
• Participates in technical design and provides estimation
• Owns one or more small to medium features
• Becomes a go-to person in at least one area
• Communicates clearly and gets clarification upfront to minimize rework. Knows when to ask for help to unblock.
• Consistently follows and promotes SDLC best practices: Coding standard, testing, code reviews, code comments etc.
• Exhibit strong problem solving skills, helps other developers and demonstrates teamwork

 

Requirements:

• Understands detailed requirements and demonstrates excellent problem solving skills
• Deep understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• Excellent programming skills in ROR, Golang, NodeJS, Python
• Strong communication skills
• Strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to deliver results
• 4+ years of experience in product driven organization
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute
• Experience in Golang, RoR, Unity, ML or Python will be an added advantage

 

Technical Overview We are primarily a rails shop with postgres/postgis, mongodb and redis at database layer and leverage AWS via chef for infrastructure. It may be evident from our choice of tools and our current team composition that we are here for the long haul and intend to grow aggressively. We value agile methodologies like code reviews, extensive test suite, continuous integration, extensive testing, frequent deployments, scrum and the best standard practices. You will be working alongside one of the best teams who write crisp clean code. Who are we looking for? We’re searching for a strong, friendly, flexible, and seasoned people to strengthen our engineering team. We value curiosity and eagerness to learn. When presented with a challenge, you question until you are clear what the problem is and then do whatever it takes to get the task done. You need to be crisp and detailed oriented, and willing to own an outcome and run with it, without somebody telling you exactly how to get there. We believe that is what it takes to build a high performing team. Working here means being part of a team that works hard, fast and cleverly to keep growing at rocket speed. 1) You are an experienced Rails developer, designed and delivered production ready apps. 2) Your code is modular, readable and unit-tested. You are proud of what you have built. 3) Comfortable and productive in a unix-like shell environment 4) You excel in a team environment by collaborating with or supporting your peers. You love to teach and you are not afraid to learn & implement something new 5) Follows the latest updates in the ruby community. 6) You have good demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies like JS, jQuery. 7) You have experience with RESTful APIs and have been part of developing on in the past 8) You are an SQL ninja and have a working knowledge of NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB) 9) You are interested in or experienced with at least one another programming language/ framework and can explain why that language is worthwhile. If that’s you, your responsibilities will be 1) Take ownership of a product, maintain the existing product, work independently, always ensuring the code quality is of the highest standard 2) Find solutions to seemingly difficult problems and implement them in code What you can expect from us 1) Fun-loving, motivated co-workers who you would love working with 2) An environment where you are encouraged to question, experiment, take the risk and push the envelope. 3) Opportunity and resources to do your best work and pursue your dreams Please apply along with the latest resume and a link to your project portfolio or github profile if you would like to discuss this role further. You can still apply if you don’t satisfy some of the requirements. We prefer candidates who can join us immediately or ones with a short notice period. Work Location: Mumbai Compensation: 6-8 LPA Contact: [email protected]