Ruby on Rails Developer

Want to work for Riskcovry?
We are a passionate, dynamic, and balanced team. Our culture is open, direct, and merit-oriented. Our team has enormous depth across insurance, technology, fintech, strategy and investment. We have great investors partnering with us to help achieve our vision.

Riskcovry is one of the fastest growing startups in our space and we would love to have you onboard. Read more about us:
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We are looking for people who:
1. Have a strong bias for action and value speed over perfection.
2. Make decisions with this ethos: Customer > Company > Team > Me
3. Thrive in a flat and open organization
4. Recognize that frugality is the key to efficiency
5. Are self-starters and have a natural tendency to own company and team goals

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing technical leadership, design and development of complex pieces of the service oriented architecture based platform.
• Modelling Database Design for large scale applications.
• Develop for performance engineering.
• Design for the right use of micro services, containerization and observability.

• Drive technology and product innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Create reference implementation for our integrations and for backward compatibility.
• Not interested in managerial responsibilities

Requirements, Desired Skills and Experience

• Tech Stack based on Ruby-on-Rails, Python-Django or Node.js frameworks.

• Engineering degree 

   Opportunities for the right candidate

• Build and develop SaaS and PaaS products from scratch
• Build the best-in-class UX based products
• State of Art technologies (Latest trends in the industry)
• Work with a well-knit team, almost like one’s family
• Startup culture and advantages of working in a co-working space
• Performance based career progress and high visibility with management and founders

We are looking for a versatile Backend developer with proficiency in Web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix or Django/Python.
You will get to design, architect and develop complex enterprise software and SaaS web applications leveraging modern web stack.

Roles & Responsibilities
Design & build highly scalable, high performance, responsive web applications.
Take full ownership and responsibility for building, shipping, and maintaining core product features, end to end. Help out in building the backend & front-end infrastructure.
Translation of requirements, designs and wireframes into high quality code. Collaborate closely with designers, engineers, founders and product managers.
Mentor team members and review their work.
You will enjoy this role if you...
Are a geek with a desire to stay ahead of the curve.
Like building beautiful well-architected software products with millions of users.
Work collaboratively as part of a close-knit team of geeks, architects and leads.


Desired Skills & Experience:

2 - 6 years of production experience with modern web frameworks - Ruby on Rails, Phoenix/Elixir and/or Django/Python.
Should have sound experience in developing scalable / distributed SaaS apps
Should have good knowledge and work experience in REST API implementations, JSON format handling, caching, sessions, multi-threading, etc.
Should be comfortable with database schema design and leveraging SQL & NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB)
Experience developing, consuming and transforming internal and 3rd party API's (REST and GraphQL)
Experience with code quality and reusability practices (CI/CD for back-end & front-end repos)
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, design patterns.
Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, troubleshooting, and agile development
Communication: You like discussing a plan upfront, welcome collaboration, and are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Bonus points if you have...
Exposure to front-end technologies like React/Redux, Javascript/Typescript etc.
Cloud native development on AWS or GCP
Experience with implementation of container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes. Knowledge of continuous integration, continuous delivery and enterprise DevOps concepts.

Responsible: ● Responsible for championing persistence, business logic and other back-end layers architectural and SDLC process strategy as well as the planning and successful execution of said strategy ● Effectively balance technical leadership and software engineering individual contributor responsibilities ● Directly or indirectly drive BE projects and provide architectural and technical leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment ● Continually retrospect and drive innovation within the back-end development process to ensure our software engineers execute at the highest possible level ● Hire, onboard, develop and manage Back-End (BE) engineers ● Manage Tech Debt management ● Responsible for execution of SDLC processes to include sprint pre-planning/planning, retros, demos, architecture and code reviews ● Work closely with the rest of the tech leads, data scientists, senior engineering leadership and product managers to ensure we're building awesome, feature-rich, scalable and secure product lines, products and features ● Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure we're building highly reusable codebase ● Provide the mentoring and guidance to BE engineers. Create an environment for BE engineers to continually reach new heights within their career Requirements: ● 10 plus years solid experience in back end open source based technologies, including at least 4 - 5 years in Ruby or RoR cloud based ecosystems ● 4 plus years solid experience as a technical lead, including at least 2 years in large scale platform environment ● CS degree required or equivalent work experience ● Solid procedural and object oriented Software Engineering fundamentals ● 3 plus years of relevant experience managing fast-paced and dynamic Scrum team ● A proven track record of senior level software engineering and architecture accomplishments in a high-capacity, large-scale, internet-based product platform ● Capable of technical deep-dives, yet verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold their own in a strategy discussion with senior technical or product leadership ● Comfortable recruiting a team of very bright, experienced engineers capable of working on projects and at scale unlike any other they've encountered ● Very experienced with Agile / Scrum methodologies ● Outstanding communication skills, both written and oral ● Expert understanding of RoR framework ● Solid understanding of AWS services ● Solid experience with containerized applications and serverless functions ● Strong understanding of and experience with testing practices ● Strong automation and CI / CD experience ● Pivotal Tracker or Jira, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub tools experience, some would say you are a master ● If I asked your previous team members about you, they would say you were a great leader and even better contributor. They would also very much welcome an opportunity to work for you once again

Technical Overview
 You will be expected to design, develop and maintain large-scale complex backend web
applications.
 You will be expected to rapidly learn and apply relevant new technologies.
 You will be having a high level of interaction with business and product stakeholders.
 You will be working on the entire web application stack, which includes:
o Web server hosting
o RESTful communication
o Message brokering
o Backend application layer, which includes the service and domain layers
o Data layer for persistence or caching
 You will be participating in an agile software development cycle, which includes:
o Design
o Development
o Code Review
o Unit and Integration Testing
o Release
 As a senior developer, you will be expected to contribute to design, code review, refactoring, and
project management.
 You will be exposed to the following technologies:
o Web application frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, Vert.x, AIOHTTP, AWS
Lambda
o Languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Python
o Data stores: PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, Amazon Redshift
o Communication: HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
o Server Management: Amazon ECS, Docker

Product Overview
 You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers.
 Product sectors include:
o Growth: You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry
best driver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead
management models.
o Lifecycle Management:  Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which
includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools,
partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among
others.
o Transaction Experience: You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our
customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking
system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud
prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
o Fulfilment: As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree
of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system,
dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
o Enterprise Solutions: You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence.
You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation
tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

Description • Must have development background and should have hands-on experience in Java, or Node.Js or Ruby or Python, angular.js as an application developer. • Must have experience with Continuous integration and deployment tools eg. Jenkins, Ansible, Github, Subversion, Nexus etc. • Good to have strong understanding & working experience on either of the Public Cloud like AWS, Azure or GCP. • Experience on AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, ECS, RDS, DynamoDB • Good hands on experience in setting up enterprise cloud security, networking configurations • Must have excellent understanding of typical multi-tier application architectures: web servers (Apache, nginx, IIS), caching, application servers, load balancing. • Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON. Documenting of Webservices using Swagger. • Must have worked on micro-services applications, containerization of applications. • Must be aware of version control of code, code coverage, automated code testing. • Exposure to log management and log analysis tools like Splunk. Roles and Responsibilities: • Helping with application migration to Public clouds like AWS, Azure or GCP. • The candidate will have to present AWS Cloud services offerings and solutions to clients • Application optimization on Cloud. • Containerize/ Dockeriseexisting applications & migration to Public Cloud. • Must be able to identify & implementapplication deployment automation; define continuous integration process as per best practices.

Your job- • You’ll bring new ideas to the table, implement them into features, and collaborate with the product and design team to create a great user experience. • You'll develop, test, improve, and deploy new features on new different applications. • We also expect you to adopt a disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment. Our job- • Make sure you're working on projects you're pysch'd about. • Provide an open environment where you can learn and grow your skills. • Ensure that you'll get free lunches on time We value humility, enthusiasm, and a great work ethic over everything else.

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