

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

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Seeking passionate Software Engineers having 2+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails.
Must Have Skills
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills. And you enjoy collaborating with others
- 2+ year of experience with Ruby on Rails or other Ruby frameworks
- Sound knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts and design patterns
- Strong knowledge of relational database concepts, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
- Working knowledge of Javascript, DOM, CSS, HTML
- Strong experience with Git versioning systems
Good To Have Skills
- Experience with modern Javascript libraries, frameworks & its ecosystem will be a huge plus. Example: React.js / Ember.js / Angular.js / Vue.js etc.
- Experience with Micro-service Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), GraphQL, and REST APIs will be a huge plus
- Working knowledge or understanding of the SaaS ecosystem will be a plus
- Contribution to open source projects, have participated in some technical community or meetups or interest group or have written or spoken in public about their technical ideas
- Inclination to develop your own gems or reusable components or libraries
What you will love working at Kiprosh
- We're a remote-friendly and calm company
- We use the latest and powerful hardware for software development
- We are heavy on extreme programming and agile methodology. Our DNA is engineering practices like TDD, CI, CD, Code reviews, Pair programming, etc
- We love to collaborate and contribute to open source projects (check: https://www.github.com/kiprosh">Kiprosh Github)
- We encourage and help you to blog about your development experience with the rest of the world. (check: https://blog.kiprosh.com/">Kiprosh Engineering Blogs)
- Our dedicated CoE (Center of Excellence) group ensures that company-wide we all achieve excellence in the area of our interest, learn the latest and greatest, and keep sharing product & technology topics regularly across the organization
- Company-wide, we conduct monthly events to have fun together as a One Kiprosh team.
- We are big on rewards and recognition. We celebrate spotlight awards every quarter. We have yearly award ceremonies and celebrations. (check: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kiprosh">Kiprosh Linkedin Page)
- We have company-wide outings twice a year (but pause for a year since March 2020 due to Covid19 pandemic)
- We are a passionate group of humble, kind, and fun-loving individuals

Job description
Ruby on Rails Developer Responsibilities :
- Designing and developing new web applications.
- Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
- Writing and maintaining reliable Ruby code.
- Integrating data storage solutions.
- Creating back-end components.
- Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs.
- Integrating user-facing elements designed by the front-end team.
- Connecting applications with additional web servers.
- Maintaining APIs.
Ruby on Rails Developer Requirements :
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Experience working with Ruby on Rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.
- Ability to write clean Ruby code.
- Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial.
Key Responsibilities & Requirements
You should primarily be a backend developer or full stack developer, very good at code reviews and code optimization. Our products depend on processing large amounts of data and having fast response times is absolutely essential.
You will have the opportunity to
- Take responsibility of building systems for scale
- Manage our backend systems and database optimizations
- Assist in key decisions and design architecture that drives development across products
- Define processes and help with efficient functioning of the team
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the products are scalable, maintainable and secure
What we expect from you:
- We work on Ruby on Rails but you can have 2+ years of experience as backend developer in any language
- Have a solid grasp of OOP, databases and automated testing methodologies.
- Know how to manage sprint and ensure tasks are completed within the timeline
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Strong understanding of SQL databases
- Proficient knowledge of various authentication methods like JWT, OAuth etc..
- Perform peer code reviews and Code audit - Analyze existing code and remediate performance issues within existing applications
Having seen over 10x growth in 2021 alone, we are expanding our scope of products to cater to the fast growing creator economy and help creators monetize in ways beyond influencer marketing. We are also looking at tremendous growth in the next few years, standing at the verge of building something huge!
Come join our team of developers if a fast learning environment in a high growth industry excites you.
About Winkl
Please check out our product before applying to this position -
* Website - https://winkl.co
* Team - https://winkl.co/about
* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.winkl.app&hl=en
* iOS App - https://www.winkl.co/app
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Leveraging data & technology helps Winkl scale influencer marketing to a level that wasn't possible earlier. This has helped Winkl power influencer campaigns for top brands in India like Flipkart, Amazon etc.
Culture & Expectations
* At Winkl, no one tells you what to do. We don't micromanage. We don't spoon feed. As long as you're willing to learn new things, are proactive, initiate activities on your own, make mistakes and learn from them, take responsibility, stick to your word of getting things done, we think you'd be a great fit at Winkl.
* On a day to day basis, you'll get to be an important part of a high growth startup as it scales.
* You'll receive all possible support from your team at Winkl to help you succeed.
* Being highly accountable is a non-negotiable requirement

















