Ruby on Rails Developer

We seek a highly skilled and experienced Ruby on Rails Development Team Lead/Architect to join our dynamic team at Uphance. The ideal candidate will have proven expertise in leading and architecting RoR projects, focusing on building scalable, high-quality applications. This role requires a combination of technical leadership, mentorship, and a strong commitment to best practices in software development.

Job Type: Contract/Remote/Full-Time/Long-term

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-quality Ruby on Rails applications that meet our high-quality standards.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
• Utilise your expertise in Ruby on Rails to enhance the performance and reliability of our platform.
• Set the technical direction for the existing RoR project, including system architecture and technology stack decisions.
• Guide and mentor team members to enhance their technical skills and understanding of RoR best practices.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain high coding standards and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Optimise application performance, focusing on ActiveRecord queries and overall architecture.
• Tackle complex technical challenges and provide efficient solutions, particularly when specifications are unclear or incomplete.
• Establish and enforce testing protocols; write and guide the team in writing effective tests.
• Define and ensure consistent adherence to best practices, particularly in the context of large applications.
• Manage the development process using Agile methodologies, possibly acting as a Scrum Master if required.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to meet project requirements and timelines.

Technical Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Proven experience with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, HTML, and JavaScript (6+ years)
• Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails and familiarity with its best practices
• Proven track record of technical leadership and team management
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to address issues with incomplete specifications
• Proficiency in performance optimisation and software testing
• Experience with Agile development and Scrum practices
• Excellent mentoring and communication skills
• Experience with large-scale application development
• Application performance monitoring/tuning

General Requirements:

• Availability to work during the IST working hours.
• High-speed Internet and the ability to join technical video meetings during business hours.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work as part of multi-functional teams.
• Ability to collaborate and be a team player.

Why Uphance?

• Engage in Innovative Projects: Immerse yourself in cutting-edge projects that not only test your skills but also encourage the exploration of new design realms.
• AI-Integrated Challenges: Take on projects infused with AI, pushing the boundaries of your abilities and allowing for exploration in uncharted territories of software design and development.
• Flexible Work Environment: Whether you embrace the digital nomad lifestyle or prefer the comfort of your own space, Uphance provides the freedom to design and create from any corner of the globe.
• Inclusive Team Environment: Join a dynamic, international, and inclusive team that values and celebrates diverse ideas.
• Collaborative Team Dynamics: Become a part of a supportive and motivated team that shares in the celebration of collective successes.
• Recognition and Appreciation: Your accomplishments will be acknowledged and applauded regularly in our Recognition Rally.

Compensation:

Salary Range: INR 24 LPA to INR 32 LPA (Salary is not a constraint for the right candidate)

At Uphance, we value innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to lead a group of talented RoR developers, contribute to exciting projects, and play a key role in our company's success. If you are passionate about Ruby on Rails and thrive in a leadership role, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and follow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/uphance !

• As a senior backend engineer, you will be expected to execute and deliver large and complex projects end-to-end, with or without the involvement of other team members
• Ensuring timely delivery of all product deliverables
• Play a key role in technical discussions within the team and be the go-to person for the team for guidance and troubleshooting
• Understand key Business and Engineering metrics around performance, quality, and availability and work regularly with the team to push the boundaries and improve them periodically
• Proactively participate in code reviews and architecture and design discussions
• Mentoring junior engineers and setting best practices for coding, code reviews, etc.
• Help the organization in building a top-quality team by participating in hiring initiatives and evangelizing about contributions, accomplishments, and victories

• Strong and self-motivated individuals, should be able to independently drive decisions
• Solid experience in building web-based products
• Overall of 4+ years of expertise in at least one dynamic programming language and one MVC web framework, preferably Ruby on Rails
• Expertise in Database modeling, preferably relational DB, spotting DB bottlenecks, and writing optimized DB queries
• Expertise in all common Cloud technologies, preferably AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD tools and workflows
• Proven track record in building highly-available and scalable distributed systems
• Willingness to play and explore with new technologies and be a Subject Matter Expert and support them
• Someone who believes in small incremental improvements and is passionate about refactoring
• A keen eye for quality with regards to following and establishing good coding practices, improving code coverage
• Good stakeholder management, ability to build trust and rapport with internal and external stakeholders

Good knowledge and experience of working with backend systems; 

designing server-side architecture, including production maintenance experience are must-haves.

At least 1-2 years of experience in any programming languages like Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and Node.js(Node.js preferred).

Understanding of micro-services oriented architecture.

Experience with Databases design (SQL, NoSQL) and analytics

Experience in driving and delivering complex features/software modules from technical design to launch.

Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build the tools, services, and applications that will enable us to be the planet’s most patient-focused pharmacy. You will work on projects ranging from greenfield initiatives to matured products with an active user base. 

• Collaborate with engineering team to design and implement products using event driven micro-services architecture.
• Interact with Product Managers and key stake-holders on regular basis to understand and execute Product vision.
• Take charge of end-to-end feature development, right from proof-of-concept to production deployment and support
• Brainstorm and lead continuous improvement projects for product
• Providing feedback to peer developers on code quality and development standards.
• Mentoring team on strong coding and design standards.
• Setting the bar high for development practises while striking the right balance between pragmatism and perfection for code and processes.
• Effectively document API's and services using Swagger/OpenAPI, visualize flow and dependencies using diagrams, and create technical documents on engineering wikis.
• Present crisp and clear feature demos to stakeholders.

Some of our opensource projects- https://meet.google.com/linkredirect?authuser=0&;dest=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmedly">https://github.com/medly

We don’t expect anybody to be an expert on all of these, but you should be deeply familiar with some, and a self-starting learner who isn’t afraid to ask for help:

• Polyglot Development (at least 1 more lang apart from Java and JavaScript)
• At least one JVM language
• Functional Programming, 
• OO Design, Clean Code, SOLID principles
• Solid grasp on HTTP, and REST
• Web based SaaS product development
• Deployment to AWS or any cloud
• Test Driven Development, 
• Security Compliance like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC2
• Git, Linux, CI/CD, Gradle, IDEA
• Security based on OAuth2 / OIDC
• SQL and NoSQL DBs like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch
• Docker
• SQL Migration tools like Liquibase, Flyway
• Semantic Versioning, Feature Toggles, PR, Feature Branches

• 3+ Years of experience mainly on Backend Development using any two languages (Java, Kotlin, NodeJS, Ruby etc.)
• Minimum a bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or any related field.

• Develop service/APIs using Kotlin/Micronaut Node/Serverless
• Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL DB
• AWS, Lambda, API Gateway, Amplify, Cognito, Okta
• Github, Github Actions, SonarCloud
• Database versioning using tools like Liquibase
• Terraform to manage infra
• Cloudwatch/AWS X-Ray to monitor the infra
• Opportunity to make Open Source Contribution

Given below is the JD of our company.

Company Name:  Solbeg India Pvt. Ltd

Company Website: http://solbeg.in/">http://solbeg.in/

Solbeg India team includes software development professionals with solid experience and deep technical expertise in implementing custom applications, including web and mobile solutions.

Job Description:

1. Atleast 6+  years of industry experience relevant in ROR.
2. Understand the application requirements.
3. Design, Develop and test the requirements.
4. Knowledge on DevOps and agile methodologies is an added advantage.
5. Proficient in the following skill set

Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS3, Javascript & Jquery, MVC concepts

1. Good troubleshooting and debugging skills are must.
2. Should have knowledge on API development and UI development using Ruby.
3. Should have knowledge on any of the version control.

Job Location:  Navi Mumbai (Kharghar)

Job Skills required: ROR Developer

Experience:  5+ years

Apart from JD, I would like to provide you more details like the range of salary / package can be from 10 lakhs to 16 lakhs.

The experience of candidate should be like from range 5 to 7 years, which should be relevant in ROR.

The notice period or joining period should be less than a month.

So can you proceed further on documentations, so that we can start as soon as possible.

If you would like to connect with me on skype, here it is jaywant.dhomse.