Ruby on Rails Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in the design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-performance software systems.
• Partner with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams to define technical strategy and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Lead by example in writing high-quality, testable, and maintainable code.
• Drive best practices in software engineering, including code reviews, system design, and performance optimization.
• Mentor and guide engineers across teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, tools, and frameworks to improve productivity, scale and system robustness.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and functional programming techniques.
• Expertise in Scala, with strong preference for functional programming.
• Solid experience in software design, implementation, and debugging, including inter-process communication and multi-threading.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with databases (Postgres preferred).
• Proficiency with Apache Kafka for messaging and persistence.
• Working knowledge of Python for unit and integration testing.
• Basic to intermediate experience with Ansible for automation.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Nice-to-Have / Bonus Skills

• Experience with modeling in YANG.
• Experience with Scala libraries such as Cats Effect (2/3), Monix, and Akka.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment.
• A role with strong ownership, technical influence, and visibility across teams.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.

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.

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.

Job Description

The candidate must have ability to deliver the project alone or with the help of junior programmers. The candidates must have good communication skills to communicate with the clients and in-house cross-department team members.

Have sound knowledge in MVC Frameworks, Database Structure, CMS & eCommerce Development. Able to write clean code that follow industry standards and scalable. 

 Experience in Agile development process & Complete SDLC.

Skills-
Good experience into Core PHP - framework like Codeigniter.

Knowledge of HTML,Jquery, CSS, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, MySql etc

Responsibilities and Duties

• Must be self-driven and highly organized.
• Design, code, test, debug and document software according to the functional requirements.
• Strong Logical Programming Skills required.
• Must have good communication skill.
• Self-starter and effective team player.
• Team leading and client interaction exposure would be an added advantage.
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes