Ruby on Rails Developer

As a Software Development Engineer II in Hiver’s Strategic Initiative department, you will have a critical role to play in building solutions that hold high strategic value for the business. You will get a chance to work with and mentor a group of smart engineers as well as learn and grow yourself working with very good mentors. Expect lots of challenges and high levels of ownership and autonomy. You’ll get the opportunity to work on complex technical challenges, building frameworks to monitor and improve the performance of our systems, and improving reliability and performance.

You will be working on

• Building, maintaining and scaling APIs and microservices. You will own all aspects of SDLC including documentation, data modeling, and deployment.
• Participate in solution brainstorming, release planning and code reviews.
• This is the early phase of the project and you will do foundational work on multiple aspects and help define and improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Collaborating closely with co-developers, designers and other stakeholders to build dynamic and compelling user experiences while embracing emerging standards.

We are looking for

• 3+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining production-grade services that are being used by a good number of active customers.
• 1+ year of professional experience with Ruby-on-Rails.
• Command on web fundamentals and high level knowhow frontend ecosystem and modern development practices
• Sound knowledge of design patterns and best practices for writing clean, linted, maintainable and reusable code
• Deep understanding of relational databases (eg, MySql) and data modeling concepts
• Solid foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• An architect's mindset - we want a fast time to market but without undermining long-term prospects. You will have to continuously assess the various trade-offs when considering long-term vs. short-term benefits/drawbacks and make informed choices about the optimal approach.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills - you should be able to troubleshoot and solve issues in a timely manner.
• Ability to iterate and deliver at a fast pace - speed is of the essence.
• Solid understanding of cloud concepts and latest infra stack (AWS).
• Track record of assessing complex initiatives and coming up fairly accurate expected time of arrival (ETA) and working with a team to meet these timelines with high confidence
• Good communication skills - you should have good communication skills, both written and verbal. You should be proficient in English and be able to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
• Nice to have: (optional)
• Frontend (full-stack) experience (VueJS) is a major plus

At Hiver, we value diversity and inclusion and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply. If you're ready to make an impact and be part of our innovative team, please apply here.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Developing front-end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back-end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

• Degree in computer science.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks React.js.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL or Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.

• 5 working days
• Flexible timings
• Work from home granted

Your Day-to-Day Tasks Include: 

Works in requirements like Engineering, Design, Development, and Deployment. All the tasks involves working with Java, SQL Server and Couchbase. 

Build and monitor data pipelines that serve 100+ websites, 150M+ unique impressions daily. Write code that can handle 4x more scale than the given requirement. 

Maintain uptime of multiple distributed web applications. 

Build data pipelines to pull data from upstream partners like Google. 

You Should Have: 

Minimum 3 years of experience with Java. 

Minimum 2 year of experience with any SQL database (MySql, MSSql, Oracle, DB2, Sybase). Minimum 3 years of experience with web development. 

Experience with any NoSql database (MongoDb, Couchbase, CouchDb, DynamoDb). Experience of designing/implementing/maintaining scalable systems. 

Experience with any cloud platform (AWS/Azure/GCP). 

Good To Have: 

Experience with BI and data reporting. 

Experience with Elastic search. 

Understanding of data warehousing. 

Experience in Node.js. 

A minimum of 5 years of experience in ASP.Net, MVC, Web Api, AngularJS, C# and SQL Server.

To contribute in the development of all Projects and Modules i.e. Project Documentation, web application development and business implementation.

To work with the internal teams to design, develop and maintain software.

Improve existing software.

Responsibilities

• Build efficient, testable, and reusable wordpress modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of data storage solutions
• Manage and update theme as per requirement

Skills

• Strong knowledge of wordpress
• WooCommerce plugin
• 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
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with SQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git