Ruby on Rails Developer

Job Title: Ruby on Rails Developer

Location: Chennai (Work From Office, yes, we love seeing your face!)

Experience: 2-3 years (You’ve got some experience, and we’re here to help you grow even more!)

About the Company:

F22 Labs is a startup software studio based out of Chennai. We are the rocket fuel for other startups across the world, powering them with extremely high-quality software. We help entrepreneurs build their vision into beautiful software products (web/mobile). If you're into creating beautiful software and solving real problems, you’ll fit right in with us. Let’s make cool things happen!

Position Overview:

As a Ruby on Rails Developer at F22 Labs, you’ll be doing more than just coding—you’ll be shaping the future of software. We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about building high-performance, scalable apps and loves solving tricky problems. You’ll work alongside a team of super smart engineers, contributing to innovative web applications that make a difference to the startups we support. With the experience under your belt, you’ll hit the ground running and make an impact right away. Oh, and we like to have fun while we’re at it!

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain elegant, scalable, and efficient web applications using Ruby on Rails (because clean code is the best code).
• Write code that’s as smooth as butter—maintainable, scalable, testable, and efficient (we all love a tidy codebase).
• Handle background jobs and multi-threading like a pro, making sure the app performs like a rockstar.
• Integrate third-party services and APIs, and make everything work like magic behind the scenes.
• Optimize and manage databases—you’ll be the DBMS guru ensuring queries are sharp and snappy.
• Speed up our apps using Redis caching (because nobody likes waiting for slow apps!).
• Deploy and manage applications on AWS S3—we love our cloud!
• Troubleshoot and fix production issues faster than a speeding bullet (or at least faster than the user can notice!).
• Collaborate with the product team to craft features that are both powerful and user-friendly.
• Bring your creative ideas to the table and help us improve our projects. We love fresh perspectives!

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 2-3 years of experience working with Ruby on Rails (you’ve already mastered the basics, now let’s level up!).
• A strong understanding of DBMS and building efficient databases (you know the database world inside out).
• Hands-on experience with background jobs and multi-threading to make apps run faster than a cheetah on energy drinks.
• Solid knowledge of Redis (Caching) to make sure our apps don’t break a sweat.
• Experience deploying applications on AWS S3 (cloud is life!).
• Comfortable with Git and collaborating with a team (no lone wolves here!).
• Great debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills—basically, you can fix any bug like a superhero.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and how they make everything click together.
• Excellent communication skills—because we want to hear your ideas, loud and clear!

Good to Have Skills (Extra Cool Points!):

• Experience with Node.js or Django (extra frameworks, extra cool).
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases (flexible data storage for the win).
• A significant knowledge of DevOps knowledge (help us deploy like the pros we are).

Why Join Us (Perks & Benefits):

• Health insurance (because we want you at your best, inside and out).
• Flexible work timings (get your work done, but do it your way).
• Better-than-market compensation (we know you’re worth it!).
• A supercharged learning culture—grow your skills fast.
• Rapid career growth opportunities—move up faster than a rocket in the sky.
• Work with interesting, fun, and quirky colleagues who make every day feel like an adventure.
• Learn from the best in the industry (and maybe teach us something cool too).

Selection Process:

• Online Assessment
• 1-2 rounds of interviews (no need to stress, we’re all about getting to know you).

Ruby on Rails Developer Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing new web applications.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
• Writing and maintaining reliable Ruby code.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Creating back-end components.
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs.
• Integrating user-facing elements designed by the front-end team.
• Connecting applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.

Ruby on Rails Developer Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Experience working with ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.
• Ability to write clean ruby code.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial.
• Experience with AngularJS or BackboneJS.
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim and Liquid.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

• 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

• 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

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

You should primarily be a backend developer or full stack developer, very good at code reviews and code optimization. Our products depend on processing large amounts of data and having fast response times is absolutely essential.

You will have the opportunity to

• Take responsibility of building systems for scale
• Manage our backend systems and database optimizations
• Assist in key decisions and design architecture that drives development across products
• Define processes and help with efficient functioning of the team
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the products are scalable, maintainable and secure

What we expect from you:

• We work on Ruby on Rails but you can have 2+ years of experience as backend developer in any language
• Have a solid grasp of OOP, databases and automated testing methodologies.
• Know how to manage sprint and ensure tasks are completed within the timeline
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Strong understanding of SQL databases
• Proficient knowledge of various authentication methods like JWT, OAuth etc..
• Perform peer code reviews and Code audit - Analyze existing code and remediate performance issues within existing applications

Having seen over 10x growth in 2021 alone, we are expanding our scope of products to cater to the fast growing creator economy and help creators monetize in ways beyond influencer marketing. We are also looking at tremendous growth in the next few years, standing at the verge of building something huge!

Come join our team of developers if a fast learning environment in a high growth industry excites you.

About Winkl

Please check out our product before applying to this position -
* Website - https://winkl.co
* Team - https://winkl.co/about
* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.winkl.app&;amp;hl=en
* iOS App - https://www.winkl.co/app

Winkl is a technology company that is changing how influencer marketing is done. From a manual process earlier to an automated and data-driven process with Winkl. More on this here.

Leveraging data & technology helps Winkl scale influencer marketing to a level that wasn't possible earlier. This has helped Winkl power influencer campaigns for top brands in India like Flipkart, Amazon etc.

Culture & Expectations

* At Winkl, no one tells you what to do. We don't micromanage. We don't spoon feed. As long as you're willing to learn new things, are proactive, initiate activities on your own, make mistakes and learn from them, take responsibility, stick to your word of getting things done, we think you'd be a great fit at Winkl.
* On a day to day basis, you'll get to be an important part of a high growth startup as it scales.
* You'll receive all possible support from your team at Winkl to help you succeed. 
* Being highly accountable is a non-negotiable requirement