Ruby on Rails Developer

COMPANY- LIGHTWAVE CONSULTANTS

Position: Ruby on Rails Developer

Experience : 3-7yrs

Location : Lower Parel, Mumbai (Hybrid Work Model)

Job Overview:

We are seeking a proficient Ruby on Rails Developer who brings strong object-oriented programming (OOP) principles, an API-first approach, and experience building scalable applications. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with modern frontend frameworks, integrating APIs, and contributing to robust, maintainable, and performant backend systems. Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus. Exposure to other backend languages like Python, Go, or Elixir is an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

● Design, build, and maintain scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails.

● Apply OOP principles and design patterns to ensure maintainable and modular codebases.

● Build and maintain RESTful and GraphǪL APIs to support frontend and external integrations.

● Collaborate with frontend teams to ensure seamless integration with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, etc.).

● Write clean, efficient, and secure code following best practices in performance, testing, and documentation.

● Ensure the system is scalable and performant, capable of handling large-scale data and user interactions.

● Participate in code reviews, system architecture discussions, and continuous improvement processes.

● Work in agile teams, using CI/CD pipelines and version control effectively.

● Implement containerized services and deployments using Docker and optionally Kubernetes.

● Actively contribute to technical decision-making, mentoring junior developers, and maintaining high engineering standards.

Required Skills & Ǫualifications:

●Strong hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and solid understanding of Ruby language constructs.

● Sound knowledge of OOPs concepts, SOLID principles, and design patterns.

• Proven experience building and maintaining APIs (RESTful and/or GraphǪL).

● Comfortable working with frontend developers and integrating with modern frameworks (React, Vue, etc.).

● Experience working on scalable, production-grade systems.

● Familiarity with SǪL and ActiveRecord, performance tuning, and caching strategies.

● Version control expertise using Git and experience with code review workflows.

● Strong hands-on experience with TDD using RSpec and a clear understanding of testing strategies.

● Comfortable with debugging, profiling, and monitoring production systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

● Exposure to Docker and basic container orchestration with Kubernetes.

● Experience with background job processing (Sidekiq, Resque).

● Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

● Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools for backend services.

● Experience working in a microservices or service-oriented architecture (SOA) setup.

● Working knowledge of additional backend languages such as Python, Go (Golang), or Elixir.

● Understanding of security best practices in web development and API design.

● Familiarity with service observability, logs, metrics, and tracing tools

THE POSITION:

- 3+ years of relevant experience in designing & implementing scalable, resilient backend microservices

- Expert at any backend programming language (Python/GoLang preferrable) and has exposure to API design and scalable architecture

- Hands-on experience on a couple of RDBMS/NoSQL/In-memory DBs

- Great database modelling skills

- Ability to choose the right algorithm, data-structure, and design pattern for the given problem statement

- Knowledge of any cloud based platform like AWS or GCP and scaling on the go

- Understanding of various application security principles and experience with building applications secure by design

QUALIFICATION:

                - We don't care about which college you are from, if you have the power to convert coffee into code, we got you.

• Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
• Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
• Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer, or product owner
• Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
• Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
• Manage interactions with designers, testers, and other developers

Required Skills :

• 4-6 years of overall software development experience
• 2+ years of development experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with support of high-availability, high-performance, customer-facing web applications
• Expert in configuring and deploying multiple rails applications quickly
• Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Continuous Integration, Capistrano)
• Experience building internal and external APIs and RESTful web services
• Strong foundation in Database ( SQL / Postgres )
• Experience deploying and managing applications on cloud-based infrastructure (Heroku/AWS)
• Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture

It will be good if you also have:

• Worked in a web startup before and been part of the core development during a high growth phase
• Practical experience with building scalable, high availability, and high-performance systems
• Hands-on background with agile development practices including test-driven development and scrums
• Contributed to open-source projects on Github
• Familiarity with a variety of programming languages and development tools

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer (Integrations) to contribute to PriceLabs' ambitious plans. We have an existing product that's being used by thousands of customers worldwide and are looking to upgrade our design and launch new features that will serve customers worldwide.

What you will learn at PriceLabs:

Scaling:

• We currently exchange tens of millions of prices between us and our partners multiple times every day! As we continue to grow, designing our architecture to keep working seamlessly is going to need a lot of teamwork 
• Doubling in size every year brings unique scaling challenges. Our product started with one single server doing everything needed, but over time we've created a fairly distributed architecture of micro-services. Ensuring our systems continue to provide the same level of service with twice the number of customers next year teaches us (and you!) forward thinking!

Fundamentals:

• We have a very strong emphasis on fundamentals - writing code in strict memory requirements, setting up a server from scratch, being able to use open source services (like nginx, mysql, linux servers, redis, rabbitmq) to get the best performance out sets our team up for long term success.
• Implementing to the standards of operating systems, working in a thread safe/unsafe environment.
• Understand how servers interact with each other in a data center. How does nginx and unicorn power the communication for our APIs.

Customer-centric engineering:

• Making a product that needs to work for both single home-owners as well as enterprise customers to property management businesses - we're on a journey towards design and process thinking to ensure systems are easy to use. Expect strong collaboration with customer facing, design and data science teams!

New products:

• We have a lot of ground level infrastructure available for us to build new products for both our customers and our industry partners to use. Architecting these systems from scratch is a joy in itself (our team has done this a few times!)

Amazing team:

• Our engineering team is very focused on getting things done, and getting them done the right way so the last long! Write better code everyday, solving customer and co-worker pain points, and learning from our peers is what keeps us going!

Responsibilities:

• You will work with Ruby, we are a RoR platform so understanding how ruby interacts with database would be ideal but not preferred.
• Build new integrations with property management systems (PMS) and also maintain existing ones.
• Understand nuances of downstream systems and design and architect your solution keeping in mind third party systems
• Talk to existing PMS and understand what new features can be incorporated and what existing features need to be updated.
• Fix issues that break and keep a track of daily status and understand inefficiencies.
• Engage with PMS partners and optimise the existing pipeline.
• Continuous improvement to our web stack, set standards, automate mundane tasks

Requirements:

• 4+ years experience in back end web development and understanding Ruby would be great but not mandatory.
• You should be comfortable working with git, visual studio code(or any IDE that you prefer) and test your own code thoroughly before making a PR.
• Ability to architect and develop systems so it can connect seamlessly with PMS and third party systems.
• Ability to understand Message queues and how a pub-sub system works with multiple servers
• Experience in building distributed systems that integrate with RESTful APIs and SOAP XMLs.

Main Street is hiring a Full Stack Engineer who will help design our technical architecture and build solutions that help business owners become entrepreneurs. Apply if you are excited about creating a platform for true entrepreneurship. 

As an early hire on the core team, you’ll work on shaping projects, big and small, over short three week sprints. We’re a small team, but we get a lot of features shipped. You would be responsible for driving full-stack projects from prototype to finished stage with a lot of autonomy and creativity. This is an exciting time to join the team. We've found solid early traction, have strong basic foundations and are pushing aggressively into some incredible new feature builds. We have a small team, so you can make an incredible impact on our product very quickly. 

Responsibilities:

• Own the design of the overall architecture of the web application
• Implement a robust set of services and effective APIs to power the web application
• Build reusable and manageable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Translate UI/UX wireframes to visual elements
• Develop and handle well-functioning databases and applications
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency 
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

Experience:

• Proven expertise in shipping features in Ruby on Rails. Strong background in Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Strong experience in driving thought leadership and technical architecture
• Experience with mentoring juniors in the team

You are a fit if :

• You are a skilled coder. We need candidates with a strong history of shipping features in Rails with clean maintainable code. 
• You are a good communicator and a really good writer. Since we are async and remote most of our work is written. You'll need to be able to proactively communicate in concise, clear, simple writing.
• You are an expert project manager. You need to be able to break down a large, complex business deliverable into executable pieces that can be managed as individual user stories. You need to be able to keep a project on track, and cut scope when needed.
• You don't need babysitting and are a Manager of One. We love people who have started companies or have freelanced in the past. You take ownership and take things across the finish line. Especially in our remote async approach, you'll need to be intrinsically motivated and keep your  projects on track.
• You have strong business and product acumen. This job isn't just writing code, we solve real business problems for real people. That means you need to be able to look beyond the user story, have empathy for our end users and solve real problems for them.

About Main Street:

We're solving a problem that 62% of Americans have

62% of Americans last year thought about starting a business. The #1 reason they didn’t was because they didn’t know where to start. Currents options are:

1. Going independent which is risky: no support or direction
2. Paying a franchise which is expensive:  franchises charge $100K+ fees to get started, take 10% of topline revenue, don't provide marketing support or technology

The market we're going after is bigger than e-Commerce

We’re disrupting the $2.3T franchise industry by removing the franchise fee and offering a tech-enabled franchise like product.

We’re starting with home painting where our biggest competitor is https://certapro.com/">CertaPro a $550M revenue franchise (1% market share) before quickly taking on https://www.neighborlybrands.com/our-brands/">Neighborly Brands as we expand categories (pest control, lawn care, etc.).

As we expand categories, our customer does not change

Our customer is an aspiring business owner, like https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklaforest">Nick or https://www.linkedin.com/in/hardin-h-hawes-9ba6a72/">Hardin who doesn't care what type of business they start, as long as it is profitable. Our customers are not actually the one painting houses or completing roofing jobs, rather they are the one that hires people to do the job. Our customer has years of experience in sales and general management, which makes them suitable for any type of business — which is why as we expand to 100 categories, our customer does not change.

Our solution is an end to end platform to help you start, grow and run a business

Main Street is a combination of well known technology platforms that provides an Uber like simple experience to starting a business

• https://stripe.com/atlas">Stripe Atlas: Helping you incorporate and set up legal logistics for your business
• https://www.duolingo.com/">Duolingo: Learn a new skill (in our case it is about a specific type of a business)
• https://www.shopify.com/online/ecommerce-solutions">Shopify: The operating tools to run your business
• https://www.womply.com/">Womply: A marketing stack to drive you customer

Take a look Main Street's Product walk through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teajumhL5DI&;feature=emb_title">here.

We're backed by top investors and built a world class team

We're a seed-stage startup and have raised $10M+ from top investors including Greylock and Khosla. Our team previously worked at places like DoorDash, OpenDoor, Amazon and OYO.