Ruby on Rails Developer

Lead technical Consultant

Experience: 9-15 Years

This is a Backend-heavy Polyglot developer role - 80% Backend 20% Frontend

Backend 

1. 1st Primary Language - Java or Python or Go Or ROR or Rust 
2. 2nd Primary Language - one of the above or Node

The candidate should be experienced in atleast 2 backend tech stacks.

Frontend 

1. React or Angular 
2. HTML, CSS

The interview process would be quite complex and require depth of experience. The candidate should be hands-on in backend and frontend development (80-20)

The candidate should have experience with Unit testing, CI/CD, devops etc.

Good Communication skills is a must have.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a motivated and skilled Founding Engineer to join our innovative team in Mumbai. This role offers a unique opportunity to help shape our technology and product direction, leveraging your expertise in full-stack development using React.js, Node.js, and MySQL.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement user-friendly frontend applications using React to enhance user experience.
• Develop robust server-side applications and APIs with Node.js to support our business logic and data processing needs.
• Manage and optimize MySQL databases, ensuring data integrity and performance while querying and updating data.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management and UX/UI to deliver cohesive product features.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices in software development, maintaining high-quality code.
• Assist in troubleshooting and debugging issues across the stack, ensuring a smooth operation of our applications.
• Contribute to the architecture and roadmap of our technology platform, helping to define future iterations based on user feedback.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 1 to 4 years of experience in full-stack development with a focus on React.js, Node.js, and MySQL.
• Strong understanding of web technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks.
• Proficient in database management and design, particularly in MySQL.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team and communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Passion for building innovative and scalable applications that meet user needs.

• Lead the delivery of high quality, innovative, flexible and scalable technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Design, Develop, Test and maintain software applications.
• Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews.
• Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies.
• Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
• Problem Solving and ability to present ideas - Self-motivated, Open-minded, User Focused, Adaptive.
• Generate guidelines for other web designers to match visual design intent.
• Experience in building web application using ReactJS as the frontend framework.
• Expertise in using JavaScript framework.
• Have worked on REST client and WebSockets
• Be able to write Unit tests using a framework like Jasmine, Enzyme etc.
• Have experience in using any of the Build scripts.
• Proficient understanding of GitHub or other version control systems
• Strong programming basics, with a clear understanding of Object-Oriented and Functional programming.
• Expert in developing backend application with RESTful API's Using Rest Framework
• Understanding creation of website layout/user interfaces by using standard HTML5, CSS3, jQuery.
• Experience in Bootstrap4 or CSS pre-processor like Less or Sass is desirable.
• Low-Latency UI, Page optimization, and bundle build + caching.

As a Full Stack Developer, you'll be instrumental in shaping the future of AI assistants for data teams and understanding the intricacies of Large Language Models (LLMs) to optimise their usage across multiple use cases. Utilising Django, you'll architect backend infrastructures optimised for handling data processes and LLM interactions. Your role involves building APIs with the Django Rest Framework. With React, you'll design user-centric interfaces that seamlessly integrate with our AI assistants, ensuring that data teams have an intuitive experience. Working at the forefront of AI revolutions and pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve in data management and analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Back-end Development: Utilise Django to architect robust back-end infrastructures. Ensure they are tailored for complex data processes and seamless LLM interactions.
• API Design: Craft efficient and scalable APIs using the Django Rest Framework.
• Front-end Development: Transform UI/UX designs into functional web pages using React. Prioritise performance and deliver seamless user experiences.
• AI Integration: Design user interfaces that flawlessly integrate with our LLMs, and AI assistants, aiming to offer data teams an intuitive and efficient interaction.
• Innovation: Stay abreast of AI advancements. Push boundaries and explore new possibilities in data management and analysis using AI.

Requirements:

• Pre-requisite Tech Stack: Python, Django, React, Springboot, CSS, and SQL
• Previous work experience with a start-up or similar setting is preferred
• Having an interest in system architecture design

• 6 to 9 yrs You can write backend code using primarily Java
• You can contribute to frontend code stack in ReactJS or other Javascript framework
•  front-end technologies (ReactJS /AngularJS) experience
• 3+years of experience with web application development
• 3+ years of database experience
• 3+ years of Webservices or API Development experience
• 3+ years of experience with Java development
• Web Framework experience with Spring MVC
• Strong work experience with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, MongoDB
• Web UI experience with CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, Bootstrap, AngularJS / ReactJS
• Familiarity and working knowledge Docker, Jenkins
• Database and caching experience, SQL and NoSQL (SQL, Postgres)

About Company

• Vision : Bikayi helps small to medium sized businesses go online and scale their businesses. Bikayi merchants are selling various things from groceries to apparels and electronic items.
• Scale : We are very close to grossing a GMV of 1B dollars on an annual basis. Probably one of your neighbourhood shops is using Bikayi to sell online.
• Fuel : Monetizing the product from early days we have a solid business model and our revenue numbers are growing at a healthy pace. Apart from this we are funded by top investors in the world like Sequoia capital and Ycombinator.
• People : We have a culture which gives you a lot of challenges to solve and at the same time get high rewards.

Fun facts

• 42,59,407 Indians started their online selling journey with Bikayi this year, That is greater than the combined population of Maldives and Monaco
• We witnessed a GMV growth of 5400% and revenue growth of 1100% last year.
• Band Chainsmokers have also invested in Bikayi 🎵

Responsibilities

• Guide the team : Help the junior engineers to unblock them and guide them on best design practices. Help in code reviewing on a regular basis.
• Responsible for code delivery : Pushing deploys on a constant basis. When working in a growth stage company, this part can be challenging as the speed of requirements is high. You will need to make sure you are able to push code on a regular basis.
• Design & Architecture : You need to have technical expertise in the company's tech stack and in general the frontend or backend infrastructures.
• Prepare thorough technical documentation which can be used as a reference by other engineers.
• Own your product : You will be responsible for the success / failure of your team and the product. You will need to work with cross functional teams, understand their requirements and make sure that everybody is on the same page.

Requirements

• Past experience of working for tier 1 / vc funded companies.
• 3+ years of commercial work experience in the relevant domains.
• Continuous past experience of delivering products at a steady pace.
• Experience in the following would be preferred.
• Node Js for Backend Engineers
• React Js for Frontend Engineers

Company Perks

• Macbook
• Flexible hours
• Book reading / personal development stipend
• ESOP pool also available
• Health insurance benefits
• Fully stacked snack kitchen and gaming room
• Free front row tickets to The Chainsmokers concerts in India \m/

NOTE - SALARY IS NEGOTIABLE 

• Company Profile - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FYi4TuTx2_Kx-mWrOCNiaLK5JtWlJI-5/view?usp=sharing