Ruby on Rails Architect

Job Requirements:

Intermediate Linux Knowledge

• Experience with shell scripting
• Familiarity with Linux commands such as grep, awk, sed
• Required

Advanced Python Scripting Knowledge

• Strong expertise in Python
• Required

Ruby

• Nice to have

Basic Knowledge of Network Protocols

• Understanding of TCP/UDP, Multicast/Unicast
• Required

Packet Captures

• Experience with tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, tshark
• Nice to have

High-Performance Messaging Libraries

• Familiarity with tools like Tibco, 29West, LBM, Aeron
• Nice to have

Job Description

Ruby on Rails

The key aspects of this role:

·    Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using Ruby

·    Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business needs

·    Act as a subject matter expert for Application Software developers and Engineers

·    Handle server-side code for a production platform and contribute to new features.

To be the right fit, you'll need:

·    Must have ROR as primary skill with good experience in server side scripting

·    Must have used Ruby as scripting language & Rails as framework

·    Good understanding & hands on experience on any frameworks in ruby : Watir, Capybera, Faraday

·    Rest Web API development (Server & Client) experience will be an added advantage.

·    Understanding of HTML/CSS/Angular JS will again an added advantage 

·    Good knowledge in DevOPS tools

·    Experience to work in agile scrum model projects

Location: Pune, Hyderabad, Gandhinagar

• Can write reliable, scalable, testable and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and clean code.
• Design and/or contribute to client-side and server-side architecture.
• Well versed with fundamentals of REST.
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.
• Knowledge of one or more front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML / CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, Typescript) JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Redux, Vue.js)
• Knowledge of one or more back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python, Go, Node.js and frameworks like SpringBoot, .NET Core) 
• Well versed with fundamentals of database design.
• Familiarity with databases - RDBMS like MySQL, Postgres & NoSQL like MongoDB, DynamoDB.
• Well versed with one or more cloud platforms like - AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation & Terraform & deployment tools like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions.
• Unit testing tools like Junit, Mockito, Chai, Mocha, Jest

This is a remote position.

• Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and tools to power customers, engineers, and operations
• Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to post-deployment.
• Be responsible for full software development life-cycle - design, development, testing, operating in production
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases, infrastructure, and processes you will encounter.
• Serve as technical lead, contributing to and directing the execution of complex projects with other engineers
• Mentor software engineers and set the standard for the next generation of Finly engineers
• Proactively identify and prioritize improvements to the team's processes, codebases and best practices

• 3 to 6 years' experience creating libraries and designing scale-able backend systems
• Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with software engineering development cycles
• Experience working with backend programming languages (Ruby, Python)
• Ability to hold yourself and the team to high standards
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to provide in-depth evaluation of multiple technical directions and determine trade-offs of each
• Strong propensity to make data-driven decisions on technical architecture and project prioritization

• Experience collaborating with experts in product, design, and operations.
• Experience driving initiatives at a broader level across an organization or company
• Strong writing skills
• Proactive approach

Type: Individual contributor with good hands on proficiency. 

Must have

• Strong proficiency in at least one of  Java, Ruby, Python
• Exposure to databases: any of  PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Cassandra
• Any NoSQL database experience is a plus
• Exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure: EC2 or S3 
• Proficiency with Git
• MUST: Using REST to make API calls. 

Great to have: 

• Experience working with one or more middleware, enterprise bus, queueing frameworks
• Any of Memcached/Redis, Apache Kafka / RabbitMQ / PubSub+ / AmazonMQ

Soft skills:

• Appreciation for clean and well documented code

What will you do at Tradyl:

(Examples for illustration only)

• Build a shipping service module that is called by our website to query shipping rates from India to a destination country. Configure this to so that an Ops person can update shipping costs as and when they change. Own deployment and monitoring of this service. 
• Use Zapier to build a workflow to export a MixPanel report into a Google sheet every day.
• Change our supplier portal (built on bubble.io) to make an API call to our customer facing site, whenever a supplier modifies his profile.
• Write an alert mechanism that identifies catalogues with insufficient information and makes them non discoverable, which can run every day.
• Work with Business Team to design a workflow for product inwarding using Airtable. Write a small app within Airtable so that whenever a product is updated as “shipped” in airtable, it updates the customer facing website.
• Use an open source dashboarding framework to create a quick dashboard to track important business events. 

We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer responsible for managing existing ruby on rail projects and any future 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 and building the front-end elements required by our team 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
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.
• Be an individual contributor and a team player.
• Be able to lead a development project from scratch to execution.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
• Creating back-end components.
• Connecting applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.

Skills

• 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 which will keep on changing based on our technology stack.
• Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors 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
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools e.g. Git, Mercurial or SVN
• Familiarity with development aiding tools such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc.
• Familiarity with continuous integration, CICD pipeline.
• Familiarity with Graphql and React framework is a bonus.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.

We are looking for a full stack developer to produce scalable software solutions.

As a full stack developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities:

• Developing front end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React and Amber.
• Proficiency with server side languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, PHP and .Net.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

Reporting directly to the Founder

The job requires a great deal of responsibility early on, but we're working on something exciting and there's lots of opportunity of growth and learning.

The job is full-time, remotely based, and with flexible hours.