Ruby on Rails Developer

What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻

1. Leading parts of the product from inception to launch, and owning large parts of the product’s execution.
2. Working with our product management and frontend team to build products with the goal of delighting and increasing the success of our users.
3. Architecting, building, testing, and releasing product-facing features.
4. Contributing to our side projects and free tools for the recruitment industry.

 

What do I need? 🤓

1. 3+ years of industry experience in a backend engineering role, preferably building a SaaS product. You can demonstrate the significant impact that your work has had on the product and/or the team.
2. Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, Ruby, Python, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here! Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)
3. Experience with scalable distributed systems, both built from scratch as well as on Managed Platforms.
4. Willingness to learn and use new technologies.
5. Extremely data-driven.
6. Ability to debug complex systems.

 

Brownie points 🍰

1. Relevant experience building large-scale data systems.

 

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.

- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express, StrongLoop, etc - Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds - Good understanding of server-side templating languages like Jade, EJS, etc

• Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions
• Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time
• Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions
• Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them.
• Drives people to solve engineering challenges
• Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams
• Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and

internal/external clients as necessary.

• Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them
• Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards

● Significantly contributes in hiring high performance candidates

• Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
• Must have experience in cloud computing
• Operates independently with almost no oversight
• Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the

team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.

• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership
• Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
• 7+ years of experience in product driven organization
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably

IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)

• 3+ years of experience in Ruby / RoR
  • Experience with data files processing (xls, csv, json, xls, text: 834, NACHA, segments)
  • Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL)
  • Experience with Git
  • Good written and spoken English (Intermediate and higher)
  • Experience deploying Rails applications
  • RESTful API, JSON API

 

Will be a plus:
• Experience working with Unit and Integration Testing (Rspec, Capybara)
• Experience of integration with 3rd party systems and services and cloud technologies ( AWS stack: EC2, RDS, S3, etc.)
• Experience with RuboCop, JSHint/JSLint
• Experience with Microservice Architecture
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3
• Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks — Ember.js, Vue.js

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

•  Software Architecture and Design.

•  Development and Testing.

•  Deployments and Operations.

Roles & Responsibilities :

We are looking for Senior Software Developer (Elixir/ROR) who have past experience in Elixir or Erlang.

• Design and write with the cutting edge Elixir/ ROR language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the company's range of products.
• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale distributed systems.

Qualifications :

We are looking for developers with 5+ years of experience of which 1-2 yrs of past work experience with ROR / Elixir or Erlang. In terms of Elixir we expect the following:

• You should be aware of idiomatic programming in Elixir, and should have good awareness of concepts such as pattern matching, recursion, and behaviors.
• You should be well versed with concurrency and processes in Elixir. 
• You should be hands on with Genservers, Tasks, Agents, Supervisors, and other OTP concepts in Elixir.
• Plus points if you have worked with data processing libraries such as Genstage, Flow and Broadway.
• 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• You should have good experience working with relational and non-relational databases. We use Postgres and Cassandra.
• Good to have but not mandatory working experience with caching tools such as Redis, Queue mechanism setup with RabbitMQ.
• Good knowledge of version management with Git.
• Awareness of TDD. 
• CI/CD knowledge would be a huge advantage.
• Will to design and maintain large scale distributed systems.
• Past experience in building complex applications, either by yourself, or as part of a larger team
• Desire (obsessive?) for maintainability.
• Experience of working with cross-functional remote teams in an Agile software development framework.
• Experience in designing APIs with proper documentation.
• Ability to write useful and maintainable tests.
• Good understanding of the common architectural patterns and design principles.
• Solid understanding of how modern web applications work.
• (Nice to have) Being an active member of the Elixir community (writing blog posts, giving presentations in meetups, etc).
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English to engage a variety of large audiences, internally and externally.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in any relevant discipline.

• 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.

At NerdWallet, we are passionate about building delightful user experiences and creating consumer products that impact millions of users. We are looking for talented Senior Full Stack Engineers who will help us innovate and shape our products and services as we expand into new verticals. Our engineers are dedicated to changing how consumers interact with their finances and work in partnership with product owners and designers to evolve our product into a clean and seamless experience. The successful candidate enjoys building beautiful interfaces and connecting them to complex back end systems. You will be a crucial member of our engineering team and help design, build, and maintain systems necessary to continue our rapid growth. NerdWallet Engineering offers a culture of constant learning and knowledge sharing; we are passionate about metrics and experimentation. Engineers are organized into cross-functional multidisciplinary teams and work closely with stakeholders. Our stack is based on Python and React, and we continue to expand our toolbox to use the best technologies for the job. Where you can make an impact: Design and lead the development of high-performance, secure, scalable and delightful consumer-first experiences that improve the lives for millions of users. Build out the service architecture that interfaces the front-end stack to seamlessly talk to our identity services, data layer or business partner APIs. Architect, develop and drive improvements to our evolving backend and frontend infrastructure. Implement product features that have a direct impact on user engagement and monetization. You are: Customer focused: You are passionate about creating web applications that improve the lives for millions of users and building delightful user experiences. Communication and collaboration: You are able to work effectively with others. You will be working closely with other engineers, designers, product managers, user research scientists and customer groups to build product features and high quality products. Leadership: You have demonstrated feature development ownership, can lead by example and enjoy mentoring and inspiring other engineers. High-energy, company first, positive attitude: Must be motivated to work hard in a fast-paced environment. Your experience: 5+ years of engineering experience with a proven track record of building consumer web applications or services. Advanced programming skills developing using client-side Javascript and HTML/CSS. Experience in building highly scalable web services and building/using RESTful APIs and proficiency in Node.js, Python, Ruby or PHP. Experience with Express.js and React/Flux/Redux a plus. Strong understanding, building and debugging of scalable, high performance web applications built with reusability and componentization in mind. Familiarity with Single Page Application Frameworks (React, Angular, Backbone), responsive design and MVC design patterns. Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field preferred. You should be able to demonstrate superior understanding of CS fundamentals. NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We are looking for a web developers with proven good skills.

Requirements of technical abilities 4 to 15 Years of development experience with Ruby on Rails Awesome senior ROR developers, hands-on tech-leads, hands-on-architects for building world class super scalable and highly available e-commerce marketplace application. Expertise of performing the tasks that need advanced rails tech skills. Should be an advocate and mentor juniors to adhere to the best practices TDD, RSpec, Factory-Girl, Faker, simplecov Rubocop Capistrano/Vagrant Continuous Integration Should be well-versed with MetaProgramming. Experience of deploying AWS Cloud servers Experience of the optimizations to scaling the environment to suiting the needs of the increasing traffic loads and increasing database content. Strong with RDBMS skills and perform DB optimizations. Previous experience of Spree commerce will be an added advantage. Development with ReactJS will be an added advantage. Should be a fast learner with the new and upcoming technologies as required for the team. Responsibilities You will be part of a small team, with a significant amount of ownership and accountability for managing things directly. You will ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency and speed. You will work closely with product managers, Operations, Testing and other partner teams. A Large part of the job will be solving bigger problems. You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives. Set the guidelines for the team member to produce highest quality code and follow best-practices. Review code and make suggestions for the better code and product quality. Review designs for features-extensibility, scalability and preserving the architecture sanctity, You will mentor the Juniors to help them pick up the regular tasks and move on to newer and bigger challenges.