Ruby on Rails Developer

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Product Engineer to join our dynamic team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on innovative FinTech solutions and contribute to the future of global payments. If you're passionate about backend development, API design, and scalable architecture, we'd love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while following best practices.
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs and database queries.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver 0 to 1 products.
• Ensure smooth CI/CD pipeline implementation and deployment automation.
• Contribute to open-source projects and stay updated with industry trends.
• Maintain a strong focus on security, performance, and reliability.
• Work with payment protocols and financial regulations to ensure compliance.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• ✅ 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• ✅ Proficiency in any backend language (with preference for Ruby on Rails).
• ✅ Strong foundation in architecture, design, and database optimization.
• ✅ Experience in building APIs and working with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• ✅ Familiarity with CI/CD practices and automation tools.
• ✅ Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• ✅ Strong track record of open-source contributions (minimum 50 stars on GitHub).
• ✅ Passion for FinTech and payment systems.
• ✅ Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in financial services or payment systems.
• Exposure to microservices architecture and cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of containerization tools like Docker & Kubernetes.

• 3 - 5 years of progressive IT experience with a minimum of 1+ years in building Ruby on Rails Web applications and RESTful API endpoints
• Proficient with scripting languages, specifically Python and Bash
• Experience in Object Oriented Java Script.
• Must have Linux command line experience.
• Good experience in developing and integrating reliable REST web services.
• Possess good communication, organizational and creative thinking skills.
• Multi-tasking individual that likes to work both in a team environment and individually
• Excellent technical abilities, leadership, decision making, and adaptability to new technology
• Good knowledge of Agile processes and practice
• Team player

Icicle is looking for an experienced RoR developer who can effortlessly build with us the cleanest of all designs. We're looking for passionate Ruby on Rails developers to join our IT team in Mumbai.

Icicle builds Web & Mobile products for Startups, Brands, Digital Agencies and Enterprises, helping in bringing their ideas to life. More - www.icicletech.com

The team consists of bright young designers, hackers, senior developers, startup specialists. We are distributed with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and New York. More - www.icicletech.com

What will you do?

As a Ruby on Rails developer, you will get to:

• Participates as an independent contributor on an agile development team working closely with team members to effectively deliver high quality code.
• Complete ownership of a product or feature from development to launch.
• Coordinate and participate in the code review process to ensure delivery of high-quality, testable code using best practices and current software patterns.
• Review and mentor other team members. Be a team player!
• Get complete control of the product with active involvement in deciding stack and architecture.

What we are looking for

• Minimum 3+ years in depth hard core experience in Ruby on Rails
• Deep understanding of object-orientated programming
• A knack for writing clean, readable maintainable Ruby code.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Skillset in Testing using Rspec
• Demonstrated skills and experience with writing testable code and using related best practices.
• Understanding of web services technologies such as REST is required.
• Good experience and understanding of continuous integration and deployment process.
• Knowledge in working with AWS or other cloud platform
• Experience in working with limited direction while exceeding delivery expectations.
• Great communication, particularly in explaining your coding processes, suggestions for best practices, and identifying ways to improve the teams coding quality.

Technical Expertise
Core

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, Rest API
Databases

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
Testing

Rspec (or any other Unit testing framework)
Cloud/Deployments

Capistrano, Docker, Heroku, AWS, Kubernetes

Desirable Skills

• Participation in open-source projects.
• Actively involved in solving problems on Github, Stackoverflow.com and groups.
• Experience working in JS and front end frameworks (React)
• Interest in learning new technologies.

Why Icicle

• 100% work-life balance
• Competitive salary
• Perks of getting free Gym Membership vouchers.
• Medical checkup Vouchers with topnotch hospitals and coupons for medical bills.
• Exposure to futuristic technology, mentally stimulating work environment.
• Opportunity to work with a big team of experienced, committed, talented people with a great sense of humour.
• Stability of a legacy company and agility of a startup - best of both the world.
• A healthy work environment with no politics, no bureaucracy.
• Encouraged to learn new skills, grow together, not just maintain the status quo

So, if you have 3+ years of experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails, apply today!