
We seek a highly skilled and experienced Ruby on Rails Development Team Lead/Architect to join our dynamic team at Uphance. The ideal candidate will have proven expertise in leading and architecting RoR projects, focusing on building scalable, high-quality applications. This role requires a combination of technical leadership, mentorship, and a strong commitment to best practices in software development.
Job Type: Contract/Remote/Full-Time/Long-term
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain high-quality Ruby on Rails applications that meet our high-quality standards.
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
- Utilise your expertise in Ruby on Rails to enhance the performance and reliability of our platform.
- Set the technical direction for the existing RoR project, including system architecture and technology stack decisions.
- Guide and mentor team members to enhance their technical skills and understanding of RoR best practices.
- Conduct code reviews to maintain high coding standards and ensure adherence to best practices.
- Optimise application performance, focusing on ActiveRecord queries and overall architecture.
- Tackle complex technical challenges and provide efficient solutions, particularly when specifications are unclear or incomplete.
- Establish and enforce testing protocols; write and guide the team in writing effective tests.
- Define and ensure consistent adherence to best practices, particularly in the context of large applications.
- Manage the development process using Agile methodologies, possibly acting as a Scrum Master if required.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to meet project requirements and timelines.
Technical Requirements and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Proven experience with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, HTML, and JavaScript (6+ years)
- Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails and familiarity with its best practices
- Proven track record of technical leadership and team management
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to address issues with incomplete specifications
- Proficiency in performance optimisation and software testing
- Experience with Agile development and Scrum practices
- Excellent mentoring and communication skills
- Experience with large-scale application development
- Application performance monitoring/tuning
General Requirements:
- Availability to work during the IST working hours.
- High-speed Internet and the ability to join technical video meetings during business hours.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work as part of multi-functional teams.
- Ability to collaborate and be a team player.
Why Uphance?
- Engage in Innovative Projects: Immerse yourself in cutting-edge projects that not only test your skills but also encourage the exploration of new design realms.
- AI-Integrated Challenges: Take on projects infused with AI, pushing the boundaries of your abilities and allowing for exploration in uncharted territories of software design and development.
- Flexible Work Environment: Whether you embrace the digital nomad lifestyle or prefer the comfort of your own space, Uphance provides the freedom to design and create from any corner of the globe.
- Inclusive Team Environment: Join a dynamic, international, and inclusive team that values and celebrates diverse ideas.
- Collaborative Team Dynamics: Become a part of a supportive and motivated team that shares in the celebration of collective successes.
- Recognition and Appreciation: Your accomplishments will be acknowledged and applauded regularly in our Recognition Rally.
Compensation:
Salary Range: INR 24 LPA to INR 32 LPA (Salary is not a constraint for the right candidate)
At Uphance, we value innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to lead a group of talented RoR developers, contribute to exciting projects, and play a key role in our company's success. If you are passionate about Ruby on Rails and thrive in a leadership role, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and follow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/uphance !

About Uphance LLC
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Uphance is an emerging software company in the apparel and fashion management industry, dedicated to aiding its clients in optimising their operations and accelerating growth. Its software encompasses comprehensive functionalities for managing various aspects of an apparel enterprise, ranging from new product design and development to production, inventory management, eCommerce, B2B commerce, order management, warehouse operations, and accounting, among others. With its headquarters in the USA, Uphance provides services to prominent brands, distributors, retailers, and manufacturers in the apparel, footwear, jewellery, and accessories sectors across North America, Europe, and Australia.
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Uphance is an emerging software company in the apparel and fashion management industry, dedicated to aiding its clients in optimizing their operations and accelerating growth. Its software encompasses comprehensive functionalities for managing various aspects of an apparel enterprise, ranging from new product design and development to production, inventory management, eCommerce, B2B commerce, order management, warehouse operations, accounting, among others. With its headquarters in the USA, Uphance provides services to prominent brands, distributors, retailers, and manufacturers in the apparel, footwear, jewelry, and accessories sectors across North America, Europe, and Australia.
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* Industry: Global digital transformation solutions provide
* Salary: Best in Industry
* Experience: 5 -7 years
* Location: Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram
Role Proficiency:
Act creatively to develop applications and select appropriate technical options optimizing application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and reusing proven solutions account for others' developmental activities
Skill Examples:
- Explain and communicate the design / development to the customer
- Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications
- Break down complex problems into logical components
- Develop user interfaces business software components
- Use data models
- Estimate time and effort required for developing / debugging features / components
- Perform and evaluate test in the customer or target environment
- Make quick decisions on technical/project related challenges
- Manage a Team mentor and handle people related issues in team
- Maintain high motivation levels and positive dynamics in the team.
- Interface with other teams’ designers and other parallel practices
- Set goals for self and team. Provide feedback to team members
- Create and articulate impactful technical presentations
- Follow high level of business etiquette in emails and other business communication
- Drive conference calls with customers addressing customer questions
- Proactively ask for and offer help
- Ability to work under pressure determine dependencies risks facilitate planning; handling multiple tasks.
- Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables on time with quality.
- Estimate time and effort resources required for developing / debugging features / components
- Make on appropriate utilization of Software / Hardware’s.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Knowledge Examples:
- Appropriate software programs / modules
- Functional and technical designing
- Programming languages – proficient in multiple skill clusters
- DBMS
- Operating Systems and software platforms
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Agile – Scrum or Kanban Methods
- Integrated development environment (IDE)
- Rapid application development (RAD)
- Modelling technology and languages
- Interface definition languages (IDL)
- Knowledge of customer domain and deep understanding of sub domain where problem is solved
Additional Comments:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer with strong expertise in Kotlin and Java to join our dynamic engineering team.
The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of backend frameworks, cloud technologies, and scalable microservices architectures, with a passion for clean code, resilience, and system observability.
You will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining core backend services that power our high-availability e-commerce and promotion platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Kotlin (JVM, Coroutines, Serialization) and Java.
Build robust microservices with Spring Boot and related Spring ecosystem components (Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data).
Implement efficient serialization/deserialization using Jackson and Kotlin Serialization. Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests using JUnit 5, Mockk, and ArchUnit to ensure code quality.
Work with Kafka Streams (Avro), Oracle SQL (JDBC, JPA), DynamoDB, and Redis for data storage and caching needs. Deploy and manage services in AWS environment leveraging DynamoDB, Lambdas, and IAM.
Implement CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
Containerize applications using Docker and integrate monitoring using Datadog for tracing, metrics, and dashboards.
Define and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform for services including GitLab, Datadog, Kafka, and Optimizely.
Develop and maintain RESTful APIs with OpenAPI (Swagger) and JSON API standards.
Apply resilience patterns using Resilience4j to build fault-tolerant systems.
Adhere to architectural and design principles such as Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and Contract Testing (Pact).
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile Scrum environment to deliver high-quality features.
Utilize feature flagging tools like Optimizely to enable controlled rollouts.
Mandatory Skills & Technologies Languages:
Kotlin (JVM, Coroutines, Serialization),
Java Frameworks: Spring Boot (Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data)
Serialization: Jackson, Kotlin Serialization
Testing: JUnit 5, Mockk, ArchUnit
Data: Kafka (Avro) Streams Oracle SQL (JDBC, JPA) DynamoDB (NoSQL) Redis (Caching)
Cloud: AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM)
CI/CD: GitLab CI Containers: Docker
Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (Tracing, Metrics, Dashboards, Monitors)
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (GitLab, Datadog, Kafka, Optimizely)
API: OpenAPI (Swagger), REST API, JSON API
Resilience: Resilience4j
Architecture & Practices: Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Contract Testing (Pact) Feature Flags (Optimizely)
Platforms: E-Commerce Platform (CommerceTools), Promotion Engine (Talon.One)
Methodologies: Scrum, Agile
Skills: Kotlin, Java, Spring Boot, Aws
Must-Haves
Kotlin (JVM, Coroutines, Serialization), Java, Spring Boot (Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Kafka, Spring Data), AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM), Microservices Architecture
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Notice period - 0 to 15 days only
Job stability is mandatory
Location: Trivandrum
Virtual Weekend Interview on 7th Feb 2026 - Saturday
• Minimum 4+ years of years
• Experience in designing, developing, and maintain backend services using C# 12 and .NET 8 or .NET 9
• Experience in building and operating cloud native and serverless applications on AWS
• Experience in developing and integrating services using AWS lambda, API Gateway , dynamo DB, Eventbridge, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Secret Manager, S3 storage, server architectural models etc.
Experience in integrating services using AWS SDK
• Should be cognizant of the OMS paradigms including Inventory Management, Inventory publish, supply feed processing, control mechanisms, ATP publish, Order Orchestration, workflow set up and customizations, integrations with tax, AVS, payment engines, sourcing algorithms and managing reservations with back orders, schedule mechanisms, flash sales management etc.
• Should have a decent End to End knowledge of various Commerce subsystems which include Storefront, Core Commerce back end, Post Purchase processing, OMS, Store / Warehouse Management processes, Supply Chain and Logistic processes. This is to ascertain candidates knowhow on the overall Retail landscape of any customer.
• Strong knowledge in Querying in Oracle DB and SQL Server
• Able to read, write and manage PLSQL procedures in oracle.
• Strong debugging, performance tuning and problem solving skills
• Experience with event driven and micro services architectures
Sr. Software Developer ( 4years – 5years)
Required:
- Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails (4-5)years, software designing and architecture.
- Experience in microservice architecture (2-3)years
- Experience in Elastic Search/Redis/Sidekiq
- Experience in writing Rspec Test cases
- Experience in cloud services such as AWS
- Experience in Postgres/Mysql, Database Modelling
- Excellent problem solving capabilities
Good To have:
- Experience in design pattern
- Experience in managing teams
About the Role
Initiate and drive technical decisions on a multi-functional, Agile team alongside product management, product design, and engineering
Work closely with product to translate abstract business and product requirements into crisp technical specifications along with a delivery roadmap
Resolve blockers and help the team stay productive
Perform code and design reviews
Take part in building the team and iterating on hiring processes
Must have Requirements for the Role
8+ years of experience in a highly technical role at hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company and 2+ years of experience leading a team
Production level experience with Node.js or Go mandatory.
Experience building highly available and performant applications in any major programming language (e.g. Node.js, Go, Javascript)
In-depth knowledge and experience working with major cloud platform (e.g. AWS (must have experience))
Experience leading product teams
You are a good communicator who can explain technical concepts to product managers, designers, support and other engineers
Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a team environment and with geographically distributed teamsIn-depth knowledge of database and web security
How We Define Success:
Ensure the projects are delivered within reasonable timelines that meet the acceptance criteria set by the stakeholders
Ensure technical debt is being measured and tackled
Ensure the non-functional requirements are being taken into account while delivering features: performance, security and testing
Nice To Have, but Not Required:
Good understanding of GCP, AzureWorked in a early-stage startup environmentGood understanding of micro services
Job Title: PHP Laravel Developer
Department: Research and Development
Experience: 1-3 years
Job Type: Full time/Permanent
Location: Mohali, phase 7, Industrial Area
Reports to: Technical Lead
Role Description
We are looking for a PHP Laravel Developer with Efficient, organized, and able to manage multiple projects at once. Assist team members & colleagues to solve technical issues. Developing and executing appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies, and processes for development activities.
You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications, and your roles and responsibilities include managing application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle.
Job Responsibilities
⦁ Knowledge of PHP web frameworks including Laravel
⦁ Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
⦁ Strong Knowledge of MySQL.
⦁ Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
⦁ Working knowledge of ReactJS/NodeJS (preferred)
⦁ Excellent knowledge of Vue.js
⦁ Proficient in creating REST APIs.
⦁ Ability to project manage.
⦁ Good problem-solving skills.
⦁ Ability to work with cross-functional teams.
⦁ Good at research and working under pressure.
Benefits:
⦁ Day shift
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⦁ Performance bonus
Job description
Roles and Responsibilities:
· Strong experience in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, WEB API, NET with C#
· Proficient in working with Microsoft SQL Server
· Experience in developing web applications using Angular
· Strong logical, analytical and problem-solving skills
· Strong background in building web applications
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· Excellent Salary structure & Performance based interim hikes.
· Corporate Group Medical Health Insurance for Employees.
· Employee friendly Corporate Work culture
We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data
between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the 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.
Must-Have:
● Strong proficiency with JavaScript.
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● Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (such as Express, StrongLoop, etc
depending on your technology stack).
● Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and
workarounds.
● Good understanding of server-side templating languages. (such as Jade, EJS, etc
depending on your technology stack)
● Development experience designing object-oriented JavaScript and SVG.
● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and
environments.
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
● Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
● Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs.
desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
Good to have:
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
● Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
● Typescript and Mongo DB knowledge.
● Knowledge of REST & GRPC.
● Understanding of containerization (Docker).
Responsibilities:
● Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
● Writing API Documentation.
● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant
applications.
● Implementation of security and data protection.
● 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.







