Ruby on Rails Developer at Avalon Meta · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 1 - 4 years · ₹8L - ₹15L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 30 Jun 2021
If you were looking for a rocket-ship, this is it!
* 1+ years of experience with web development building good quality production software
* Proficiency in at least one of: Ruby/Rails or Elixir/Phoenix (Good working knowledge of Elixir, OTP or OO programming)
* Gained good knowledge of working with APIs and performance optimisation to identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
* Familiar with data stores like PostgreSQL & Redis
* You write clean code, automate and continuously deploy it in fast development cycles.
* Experience in designing and building scalable and distributed systems
* Experience with CICD using Gitlab or AWS CodePipeline/CodeDeploy (Exposure to AWS is highly desirable)
* You are proactive and pay attention to the security, scalability, performance, availability and usability of systems.

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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
Roles and Responsibility:
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as sidekiq, Webpacker, apartment, and ros-apartment.
- Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby
- Good experience with payment gateway integrations
- Basic knowledge of the AWS server
- Understand code versioning tools Git, and Bitbucket
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML4 & HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, jQuery
- Maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
- Maintenance of the web backend of POS (Point of Sale) business applications
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features in a dynamic work environment.
Software Architect
Bangalore, India / Engineering/ Full-time
Job Overview:
As a Software Architect, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend solutions for our software applications. You will be responsible for making strategic technical decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality software products with scalable backend infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- System Architecture:
- Design and architect scalable, efficient, and maintainable backend systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Technical Leadership:
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, ensuring best practices and coding standards are followed.
- Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Backend Development:
- Lead the development of backend components, modules, and features primarily on Ruby on Rails tech stack and also be open to contribute in other tech stacks based on Java/Kotlin and Python.
- Implement and maintain APIs, data models, and database structures to support application functionality.
- Performance Optimization:
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring optimal system response times and resource utilization.
- Implement caching strategies and other performance optimization techniques.
- Collaboration:
- Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to integrate frontend and backend components seamlessly.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to standards, and knowledge sharing within the team.
- Security and Compliance:
- Implement and enforce security best practices to safeguard sensitive data.
- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure compliance and security standards are met.
- Documentation:
- Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for the backend architecture, APIs, and development processes.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and contribute to the evolution of development methodologies and practices.
Qualifications:
- Overall 10+ years of experience, with 2+ years as a Software Architect with a focus on backend development using Ruby on Rails.
- In-depth knowledge of Ruby on Rails framework, database design, and API development.
- Strong understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices.
- Experience with performance optimization, scalability, and security considerations.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to mentor and guide development teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
Bonus points:
- Familiarity with front-end technologies and frameworks(ReactJs).
- Experience with other programming languages.(Kotlin/Python)
- Experience with cloud platforms and microservices architecture.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.(AWS, Kubernetes, )
Join us in revolutionizing the way software solutions are developed, and contribute to building cutting-edge applications that make a positive impact on our users and the industry.
1. Work experience between 3 years to 9 years in building large scale high user traffic consumer facing applications with desire to work in a fast paced startup.
2. Knowledge on reactive and asynchronous programming is preferable. If you have worked with coroutines, goroutines, high concurrency or optimized number of threads for processing on your backend server you could be a good fit.
3. Extremely proficient at writing performant, scalable and production ready code in Kotlin, Java (8 or above, comfortable with concepts like lambda, streams, multithreading etc), Elixir, Rust, or Golang. Should be familiar with static code analysis, code coverage and code reviews.
4. Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis or Aerospike is required. Knowledge of graph DBs like Neo4j is preferred.
5. Strong in algorithms, problem solving and data structures.
6. Knowledge of TDD and experience with building applications integrated with CI-CD pipelines (automated build, tests and deployments).
7. Exposure to micro-services with good understanding of containers, kubernetes, logging, alerting and monitoring. Inter services communication. Should know how to handle multiple versions of APIs.
THE POSITION:
- 3+ years of relevant experience in designing & implementing scalable, resilient backend microservices
- Expert at any backend programming language (Python/GoLang preferrable) and has exposure to API design and scalable architecture
- Hands-on experience on a couple of RDBMS/NoSQL/In-memory DBs
- Great database modelling skills
- Ability to choose the right algorithm, data-structure, and design pattern for the given problem statement
- Knowledge of any cloud based platform like AWS or GCP and scaling on the go
- Understanding of various application security principles and experience with building applications secure by design
QUALIFICATION:
- We don't care about which college you are from, if you have the power to convert coffee into code, we got you.
- Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
- Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
- Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer, or product owner
- Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
- Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
- Manage interactions with designers, testers, and other developers
Required Skills :
- 4-6 years of overall software development experience
- 2+ years of development experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with support of high-availability, high-performance, customer-facing web applications
- Expert in configuring and deploying multiple rails applications quickly
- Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Continuous Integration, Capistrano)
- Experience building internal and external APIs and RESTful web services
- Strong foundation in Database ( SQL / Postgres )
- Experience deploying and managing applications on cloud-based infrastructure (Heroku/AWS)
- Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture
It will be good if you also have:
- Worked in a web startup before and been part of the core development during a high growth phase
- Practical experience with building scalable, high availability, and high-performance systems
- Hands-on background with agile development practices including test-driven development and scrums
- Contributed to open-source projects on Github
- Familiarity with a variety of programming languages and development tools
Ideal candidate should be able to guide multiple projects at once in a dynamic and expeditious environment. You will be responsible for developing a world-class product with clean, well-documented code and at the same time ensuring high performance & scalability using proper design principles. You will be responsible for writing server-side web application logic as well as for the integration of the front-end part. Needless to mention you have demonstrated ability towards urgency, ownership, sharing success and competent enough to excel prevailing engineering velocity at Cogoport.
You should be a modern thinker and believer of manager and hierarchy free organisation like Cogoport. The ideal candidate would be assessed basis the defined role fitment. Critical is that you are curious and learner to be able to seek out and evaluate new ideas and bringing them back into the organisation. If you have outstanding programming skills and a great passion for developing beautiful, innovative applications, then let's get in touch!
1. Problem Solving: You should have the rigour and discipline to approach most of the problems and ensure the delivery of quality work ahead of timelines. You are able to look at a problem, define and brainstorm ways to achieve an optimal solution and pick the best engineering approach to bring the software productivity.
2. Architectural Design: You should have in-depth knowledge to design highly scalable architecture. You have strong experience in building products ensuring scalability in tech architecture & design implementation.
3. Database: Should have strong expertise in the database to manipulate data in the software system to minimize data redundancy and maximize the speed of retrieval. Knowledge of MongoDB, MySql, PostgreSQL database is preferred.
4. Algorithm Skills: You should be adept in all algorithm aspects to define an efficient way of solving the problem. You will solve complex problems with algorithms embedded in logical thinking and creating the most efficient and optimum code.
5. Code Quality: Enhancing the code quality by structuring the code & making sure that all the guidelines are followed to ensure enhancing code efficiency & reduction of code failure & bug rectification.
6. Product Inclination: A Software Engineer not only gets involved in coding but should equally understand the product/feature to think & cover all the possible business edge cases coming on the way.









