Ruby Technical Lead

Job Title - Senior Backend Engineer

About Tazapay 

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates. 

They are licensed and backed by leading investors.   www.tazapay.com 

What’s exciting waiting for You? 

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc. 

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together. 

Are you ready for the ride? 

Find what interesting things you could do with us. 

About the Backend Engineer role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance 
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies
• An enormous sense of ownership
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

The Ideal Candidate

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems

Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++
• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns. 
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems
• Ability to get stuff done!

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
• Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols.

Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.
• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions
• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues
• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach
• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills
• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Location - Chennai - India

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!

Your Buddy

Tazapay

Job description

Ruby on Rails Developer Responsibilities :

- Designing and developing new web applications.

- Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.

- Writing and maintaining reliable Ruby code.

- Integrating data storage solutions.

- Creating back-end components.

- Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs.

- Integrating user-facing elements designed by the front-end team.

- Connecting applications with additional web servers.

- Maintaining APIs.

Ruby on Rails Developer Requirements :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

- Experience working with Ruby on Rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.

- Ability to write clean Ruby code.

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

Who we are?

Cybrilla is a financial infrastructure company. We are building the frontend applications & APIs from the ground up to support a variety of use cases and enable a superior digital experience for different user personas. Cybrilla's current focus is to build the underlying operating system for mutual funds.

AMCs / Fintech startups / Wealth management businesses can choose the product that works best for them to enable an awesome experience for their customers and internal stakeholders.

About the team

FPApp is a hosted UI platform to build, operate and invest in Indian wealth management instruments. Our vision is to create products for all user personas in the ecosystem, be it an investor, distributor, business team, operation, or support.

We are looking for minds that have a knack for understanding user problems, simplifying investment journeys and building meaningful products!

Responsibilities

• Own implementation of frontend functional workflows and applications for Fintech ecosystem.
• Analyse problem statements and design technical solutions which may involve building client-side API integrations or server side business logic.
• Ensure enterprise level scalability, reliability and security standards for front end workflows and applications.
• Continuously evolve ways of designing for better user experience and lead the implementation of same.

Requirements

Technical Skills

Frontend

• Hands-on experience on Typescript is a must
• Deep Expertise in Javascript - including manipulating DOM, acquaintance with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Understanding of Javascript Tooling - Build Tools, Lint Tools, Tree Shaking. Must have basic understanding of Babel, Webpack etc.,
• Hands on Experience in breaking complex UI Components into small reusable components
• Hands on Experience in using state management using Redux and understanding of React Context
• Understanding of Patterns in Javascript

Backend

• Strong understanding of SQL.
• Hands-on experience in Node.js Applications.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, Java would be a value add.
• Extensive background in designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving software.

General

• 8+ years of experience in building web and responsive apps in a customer-facing or B2B SaaS environment
• Interest in engaging with latest technologies and evaluating strategies to keep technology stack up to date
• Experience mentoring junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing
• Demonstrable experience architecting scalable and cost-effective technical solutions to solve business goals
• Understanding of Git - Merging, Basing etc.,
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines - one of Github Workflows, Gitlab CI or anything else
• Experience with hosting in any of the cloud hosting providers

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to work on a growing product that solves unique digital use cases for the Indian wealth management industry.
• Flexible work options.
• Opportunity to solve deep domain and technology problems, for very large enterprises.
• Opportunity to work with the best brains in fintech.
• Increasing your geek quotient, by attending meetups and conferences. Yes we dig that stuff.
• Grow exponentially by working in small and transparent teams.
• Who says you can’t make friends at work, we do!

●MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.

● 2+ years Strong Product Development experience
● Proficiency in multiple programming languages, both dynamic (Ruby, Python, Golang etc.)
and strongly typed object oriented language.
● Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge
technologies around server side development.
● Excellent data structures, algorithms and problem solving skills.
● Experience with Test Driven Development within a continuous Integration environment
(Jenkins, GO, etc)
● Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and be able to multitask.
● Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a
high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
● Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment.

Experience: 5+ Years

An  Architect  is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.  

• Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
• Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
• Responsibilities:
• Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities 
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
• Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
• Requirements:

Ideal candidate should have

• 7+ years of system implementation experience 
• Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
• Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
• Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
• Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
• Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
• Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Good experience with Devops

Requires a bachelor's degree in area of specialty and experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. A degree of creativity and latitude is required. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.

Designs, develops, and implements web-based Java applications to support business requirements. Follows approved life cycle methodologies, creates design documents, and performs program coding and testing. Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.

Additional Job Details:

Strong in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST and developing MicroServices.

Knowledge or experience , Cassandra preferred

Knowledge or experience on Kafka

Good to have but not must

Good to know:

Reporting tools like Splunk/Grafana

Protobuf

Python/Ruby