Ruby on Rails Developer

Job Details

- Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

- Industry: SAAS

- Function – Information Technology

- Experience Required: 5-8 years

- Working Days: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bangalore

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Preferred Skills: AWS, NodeJS, RESTful APIs, NoSQL

Criteria

· Minimum 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise

· Experience building scalable systems from scratch

· Expert-level proficiency in Node.js

· Deep understanding of distributed systems

· Strong NoSQL design skills

· Hands-on AWS cloud experience

· Proven leadership and mentoring capability

· Preferred candidates from SAAS/Software/IT Services based startups or scaleup companies

Job Description

The Role:

What You’ll Build:

1. System Architecture & Design

● Architect highly scalable backend systems from the ground up

● Define technology choices: frameworks, databases, queues, caching layers

● Evaluate microservices vs monoliths based on product stage

● Design REST, GraphQL, and real-time WebSocket APIs

● Build event-driven systems for asynchronous processing

● Architect multi-tenant systems with strict data isolation

● Maintain architectural documentation and technical specs

2. Core Backend Services

● Build high-performance APIs for 3D content, XR experiences, analytics, and user interactions

● Create 3D asset processing pipelines for uploads, conversions, and optimization

● Develop distributed job workers for CPU/GPU-intensive tasks

● Build authentication/authorization systems (RBAC)

● Implement billing, subscription, and usage metering

● Build secure webhook systems and third-party integration APIs

● Create real-time collaboration features via WebSockets/SSE

3. Data Architecture & Databases

● Design scalable schemas for 3D metadata, XR sessions, and analytics

● Model complex product catalogs with variants and hierarchies

● Implement Redis-based caching strategies

● Build search and indexing systems (Elasticsearch/Algolia)

● Architect ETL pipelines and data warehouses

● Implement sharding, partitioning, and replication strategies

● Design backup, restore, and disaster recovery workflows

4. Scalability & Performance

● Build systems designed for 10x–100x traffic growth

● Implement load balancing, autoscaling, and distributed processing

● Optimize API response times and database performance

● Implement global CDN delivery for heavy 3D assets

● Build rate limiting, throttling, and backpressure mechanisms

● Optimize storage and retrieval of large 3D files

● Profile and improve CPU, memory, and network performance

5. Infrastructure & DevOps

● Architect AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache)

● Build CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and rollbacks

● Use IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation) for infra provisioning

● Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting systems

● Use Docker + Kubernetes for container orchestration

● Implement security best practices for data, networks, and secrets

● Define disaster recovery and business continuity plans

6. Integration & APIs

● Build integrations with Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento

● Design webhook systems for real-time events

● Build SDKs, client libraries, and developer tools

● Integrate payment gateways (Stripe, Razorpay)

● Implement SSO and OAuth for enterprise customers

● Define API versioning and lifecycle/deprecation strategies

7. Data Processing & Analytics

● Build analytics pipelines for engagement, conversions, and XR performance

● Process high-volume event streams at scale

● Build data warehouses for BI and reporting

● Develop real-time dashboards and insights systems

● Implement analytics export pipelines and platform integrations

● Enable A/B testing and experimentation frameworks

● Build personalization and recommendation systems

Technical Stack:

1. Backend Languages & Frameworks 

●  Primary: Node.js (Express, NestJS), Python (FastAPI, Django)

●  Secondary: Go, Java/Kotlin (Spring)

●  APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC

2. Databases & Storage

● SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL

● NoSQL: MongoDB, DynamoDB

● Caching: Redis, Memcached

● Search: Elasticsearch, Algolia

● Storage/CDN: AWS S3, CloudFront

● Queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS

3. Cloud & Infrastructure: 

● Cloud: AWS (primary), GCP/Azure (nice to have)

● Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS

● Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation

● CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI

● Containers: Docker, Kubernetes

4. Monitoring & Operations 

● Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch

● Logging: ELK Stack, CloudWatch Logs

● Error Tracking: Sentry, Rollbar

● APM tools

5. Security & Auth

● Auth: JWT, OAuth 2.0, SAML

● Secrets: AWS Secrets Manager, Vault

● Security: Encryption (at rest/in transit), TLS/SSL, IAM

What We’re Looking For:

1. Must-Haves

● 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise

● Experience building scalable systems from scratch

● Expert-level proficiency in at least one backend stack (Node, Python, Go, Java)

● Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices

● Strong SQL/NoSQL design skills with performance optimization

● Hands-on AWS cloud experience

● Ability to write high-quality production code daily

● Experience building and scaling RESTful APIs

● Strong understanding of caching, sharding, horizontal scaling

● Solid security and best-practice implementation experience

● Proven leadership and mentoring capability

2. Highly Desirable

● Experience with large file processing (3D, video, images)

● Background in SaaS, multi-tenancy, or e-commerce

● Experience with real-time systems (WebSockets, streams)

● Knowledge of ML/AI infrastructure

● Experience with HA systems, DR planning

● Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, event-driven systems

● DevOps/infrastructure engineering background

● Experience with XR/AR/VR backend systems

● Open-source contributions or technical writing

● Prior senior technical leadership experience

Technical Challenges You’ll Solve:

● Designing large-scale 3D asset processing pipelines

● Serving XR content globally with ultra-low latency

● Scaling from thousands to millions of daily requests

● Efficiently handling CPU/GPU-heavy workloads

● Architecting multi-tenancy with complete data isolation

● Managing billions of analytics events at scale

● Building future-proof APIs with backward compatibility

Why company:

● Architectural Ownership: Build foundational systems from scratch

● Deep Technical Work: Solve distributed systems and scaling challenges

● Hands-On Impact: Design and code mission-critical infrastructure

● Diverse Problems: APIs, infra, data, ML, XR, asset processing

● Massive Scale Opportunity: Build systems for exponential growth

● Modern Stack and best practices

● Product Impact: Your architecture directly powers millions of users

● Leadership Opportunity: Shape engineering culture and direction

● Learning Environment: Stay at the forefront of backend engineering

● Backed by AWS, Microsoft, Google

Location & Work Culture:

● Location: Bengaluru

● Schedule: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)

● Culture: Builder mindset, strong ownership, technical excellence

● Team: Small, highly skilled backend and infra team

● Resources: AWS credits, latest tooling, learning budget

Key Skills and Requirements

· Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in Node.js and Express.js

· Bachelor Degree in Computer Science OR in related field B.sc - IT/ BCA /MCA/B.Tech/M.Tech

· Programming experience in Web Application development with Node.js and Express.js

· Must have experience in JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js or have extensive exposure in any MVC framework

· Expert in MySQL and Store Procedures

· Knowledge of REST API / Web API protocol

· Understanding HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Ajax, JSON, OOPs well enough

· Good to have: React Js.

· Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills

· Ability to write clear, concise, well-structured, and well-organized code

· Experience with third-party libraries and APIs(Zoho, Leadsquared, Knowlarity, Exotel, LCode, Karza, Google API, DIGIO, etc)

· Ability to identify weaknesses in existing code and improve it

Plus but not required

· A plus if you have Slide experience with Git Command lines.

· A plus if you have any experience with Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket.

· A plus if you have any experience with UI Design

· A plus if you have any experience with PHP, CodeIgniter

· A plus if you have any experience with React JS/Angular JS

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

· Work with outside data sources and APIs

· Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

· Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

• Job Summary:

We are looking for a PHP Developer with experience in Laravel and CodeIgniter. You will develop, maintain, and enhance web applications.

• Key Responsibilities:

Build and maintain web applications using Laravel and CodeIgniter.

Work with teams to develop new features.

Optimize performance and security.

Debug and troubleshoot issues.

Integrate APIs and services.

• Requirements:

Experience with Laravel and CodeIgniter.

Strong PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS skills.

Knowledge of Git and RESTful APIs.

Problem-solving skills and teamwork.

• Preferred Skills:

Experience with Vue.js or React.

Basic knowledge of AWS or Docker.

Software Languages: Advanced knowledge of JavaScript, C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server.

Job Responsibilities:

• Gain a clear understanding of customers' businesses and requirements;
• Plan execution methodology and identify fulfillment plan to address the requirements;
• Full lifecycle application development
• Designing, coding and debugging applications.
• Software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis
• Support, maintain and document software functionality
• Programming analytical skill with highly logical and analytical approach
• Manage documentation by working with other teams and consolidating all required types of reports for future use and test case scenarios.
• Ability to visualize data, concepts and work flows to create diagrams, charts and illustrations to supplement documentation.
• Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by benchmarking state-of-the-art practices.
• Timely reporting to provide visibility of performance to goal.
• Be data driven and flexible to changes with a natural passion for problem solving.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

Key Skills required: 

• 4+ years of rich experience in the software development with advanced knowledge of JavaScript, C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server.
• A self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to work well in a results oriented environment with firm deadlines;
• Ability to perform multiple tasks effectively while being results-driven and patient
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team
• High degree of attention to detail and trustworthiness
• Strong analytical skills
• Capable of making timely, independent decisions
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communications skill
• Ability to think outside the box and generate and implement new ideas.
• Natural interest in team building and leadership with coaching/training skills.
• Excellent organizational skills

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

Your main responsibility will be designing and implementing applications that are written in PHP. This means you will work closely with front end developers to integrate backend components with the components they’re creating for users to interact with.

Responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions
Skills And Qualifications
• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks such as cake php, Laravel, Yii, etc depending on your technology stack
• Understanding the fully synchronous behavior of PHP
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Knowledge of object oriented PHP programming

Responsibilities: 

• Design and code efficient, scalable systems that can accept feedback from multiple hundred thousand employees and generate insights 
• Design efficient and scalable event driven systems to process complex machine learning pipeline
• Experiment with data to come up with unique insights and that can benefit our clients
• Identify libraries and technologies worth experimentation
• Participate in brainstorming sessions to bring more value to our clients
• Investigate performance issues / scalability bottlenecks, existing queries and/or write new queries with performance optimization in mind
• Develop RESTful APIs that can be used by frontend to show insights
• Debug and fix production level bugs as and when they crop up
• Support ad hoc data analytics upon requests by clients, and believe us nothing creates a better DB understanding than handling ad hoc data requests 

Requirements: 

• 3+ years of experience in architecture and developing high performance web applications 
• Experience with systems ingesting/processing high amounts of data is a plus 
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment) 
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database 
• Working knowledge of RESTful API paradigms  
• Experienced in microservices architecture  
• Solid engineering principles and a clear understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Passion for products, empathy for users, and aspiration to make a big impact
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Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Job description

Fulfil’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of customer orders are fulfilled by merchants. Our products need to handle information at massive scale. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas into our technology.

As a senior software engineer, you will work on our python based ORM and applications that scales to handle millions of transactions every hour. This is mission critical software and your primary focus will be building robust and scalable solutions that are easy to maintain.

In this role, you will be collaborating closely with the rest of the team working on different layers of infrastructure in an international environment. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product are important.

What You’ll Do:

• Own definition and implementation of API interfaces (REST and GraphQL). We take pride in our 100% open API with over 600 endpoints.
• Implement simple solutions to complex business logic that enables our merchants to manage financials, orders and shipments across millions of transactions.
• Build reusable components and packages for future use.
• Translate specs and user stories into reviewable, test covered patches.
• Peer review code and refactor existing code.
• Integrate with our eCommerce partners (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon), shipping partners (UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL) and EDI.
• Manage Kubernetes and Docker based global deployment of our infrastructure.

Requirements

We’re Looking for Someone With:

• Experience working with ORMs like SQLAlchemy or Django
• Experience with SQL and databases (Postgres preferred)
• Experience in developing large server side applications and microservices
• Ability to create high quality code
• Experience with python testing tools (pytest) and test automation
• Familiarity with code versioning tools like GIT
• Strong sense of ownership and leadership quality
• Experienced in the tools of our web stack
• Python
• Celery
• Postgres
• Redis
• RabbitMQ

Nice to Haves:

• Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/Software company
• Experience with ReactJS, Google Cloud, Heroku
• Cloud deployment and scaling experience

About Us:

Fulfil.io helps high growth, high volume merchants simplify operations and scale for growth. With the rise in omni-channel commerce, Fulfil was founded with the simple idea that merchant operations need to be simplified in order to deliver amazing retail experiences. Fulfil enables businesses to turn their back office operations into an accelerator for growth by integrating order management, inventory management, warehouse management, vendor/supplier management, wholesale, manufacturing, financials and customer service, into one seamless solution. We believe merchants should love their operations platform, and we work hard to make that happen every single day. Fulfil.io is a trusted solution for brands like EndySleep, Mejuri, Lie-Nielson Toolworks, and many more.  

Fulfil.io is a venture backed technology company with offices in San Francisco, Toronto, and Bangalore. The team is made up of people who want to feel challenged at work, be the best at their craft and learn from one another. We come from different backgrounds and experiences, all passionate about the work we do, the team we do it with, and the customers we do it for. Join us in our journey to simplify operations and empower merchants around the world!  

Requirements:

• Solid experience in Java or Golang
• Good to have exposure to ML
• Should have experience in cloud computing
• Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebase
• Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
• Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
• Able to deep dive into codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
• Keeps track of industry trends and introduces right tech/tools for a given job
• Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data Structures, Algorithms
• 4+ years of experience in product driven organisation
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)