
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.

About Hiver
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We are Hiver. We are a bunch of folks with borderline devotional love for email, committed to the idea of making it noise-free and collaborative for teams. Why email you may ask? Email is one of the most common ways to communicate at work, is far less distracting than its chat counterparts, and lets you respond at your own pace. But it hasn’t evolved over the years to meet the changing collaboration needs of businesses. Teams have to rely on inefficient methods like Forwards and CCs to share information, often leading to messy threads and missed emails. Not to mention the toll it takes on your productivity, ability to concentrate and all things zen. We at Hiver are trying to solve this by giving email collaborative superpowers and, in the process, giving you back the most important currency there is - time.
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Key Responsibilities
● Evolving the architecture for performance and scalability.
● Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web
services platform.
● End to end delivery of new features.
● Lead a team of software engineers and help create an environment of ownership
and learning.
● Constantly strive to improve software development process and team
productivity.
Technical Skills
● 6-10 years of relevant software development experience.
● Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services.
● Exceptional proficiency in any 1 of the language - Java, RoR or Golang.
● Good experiences with databases and Schema design and strong RDMS
knowledge.
● Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
● Fairly good understanding of AWS (or any equivalent) and a relational database.
● Experience with prevalent design patterns and advanced system designing.
Benefits
● This is an opportunity to work on a fairly complex set of systems and impro
- Building products that impact millions
- Working on really tough problems that challenge you
- Being part of a small team where you are impactful
- 50K+ API requests/min
- 25K+ concurrent users every second
- Code, code & code
- Independently implement small to medium features
- Pick up & master new technologies
- Be a kickass developer
- A team that loves coding & building exceptional quality products
- Challenges that will push you beyond your limits
- A democratic place where everyone is heard & aware
- No hierarchy, politics, bosses, managers or anything like that
- And most importantly, Happy Vibes!
1. Work experience between 3 years to 9 years in building large scale high user traffic consumer facing applications with desire to work in a fast paced startup.
2. Knowledge on reactive and asynchronous programming is preferable. If you have worked with coroutines, goroutines, high concurrency or optimized number of threads for processing on your backend server you could be a good fit.
3. Extremely proficient at writing performant, scalable and production ready code in Kotlin, Java (8 or above, comfortable with concepts like lambda, streams, multithreading etc), Elixir, Rust, or Golang. Should be familiar with static code analysis, code coverage and code reviews.
4. Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis or Aerospike is required. Knowledge of graph DBs like Neo4j is preferred.
5. Strong in algorithms, problem solving and data structures.
6. Knowledge of TDD and experience with building applications integrated with CI-CD pipelines (automated build, tests and deployments).
7. Exposure to micro-services with good understanding of containers, kubernetes, logging, alerting and monitoring. Inter services communication. Should know how to handle multiple versions of APIs.
Work as a member of a team responsible for developing a large-scale, highly available and fault-tolerant SaaS based Leasing & Asset management solution in the commercial real estate space in accordance with established processes. You will apply your knowledge of building scalable, distributed applications and have the opportunity to work with technologies & frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, ReactJS, Heroku, AWS, Postgres DB
Essential Functions include but are not limited to the following.
You will be expected to:
- Contribute to all phases in the software lifecycle – requirements analysis, solution design, development, and deployment
- Maintain high quality standards for the work undertaken and be responsible for the quality of deliverables.
- Ensure assigned projects are developed in accordance with established engineering processes, adhering to scope, schedule constraints and agile project plans
- Guide/mentor the less experienced team members
- Participate in code reviews
- Work effectively as part of a distributed team
- Document the features worked by him/her
Key technical expertise areas expected for this role:
- Strong programming skills in Ruby with clear understanding of Object-Oriented and Functional programming.
- Experience working with Ruby on Rails framework
- Experience on REST API Programming preferably based on a Microservices Architecture
- Good Understanding of Databases (Postgres) and proficiency in database schema designing & writing efficient SQL Queries.
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Demonstrable ability to learn new programming languages and frameworks quickly
- Experience with distributed systems with specific focus on security and scalability
- Experience with modern cloud technologies such as AWS
Additional areas that would add value:
- Experience working with Cloud Service providers & platforms like AWS, Heroku
- Strong understanding of Design Patterns & their application in system design
- Test Driven & Behavior Driven Development
- Automated Unit/Integration testing
- Using DevOps & Infrastructure tooling such as GoCD/Jenkins, Git
- Frontend web development with JavaScript frameworks like React
- Experience working on projects, preferably in the real estate domain
- Experience working with Virtualization and Containerization technologies including Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience working in Agile Scrum/Kanban methodologies
- Experience working with Linux and Shell scripting
Education:
- Bachelors or Master’s in Computer Science or related fields
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in ROR/GoLang , having 3+ yrs of experience on how best to leverage and exploit the language’s unique paradigms, idioms, and syntax. Your primary focus will be on developing Enterprise Grade Systems and programs that are scalable and maintainable. You will ensure that these packages and programs are well documented and has a reasonable test coverage. You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is essential.
What You'll Do
- Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
- Translating software requirements into stable, working, high performance software
- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient micro services distributed architecture
What You'll Need
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Working experience on Ruby-on-Rails(ROR)/Golang.
- Worked on enterprise grade systems
- Have designed web services
- Know how to scale systems that have database bottlenecks etc.
- Having good exposure to Microservices architecture added value.
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Familiarity with OAuth, JWT, SSO, Authentication, and Identity Federation is an added advantage.
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Familiar with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, Pods and Meshes are added advantage.
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Experience in MySQL, Snowflake, and MongoDB is an added advantage
Icicle is looking for an experienced RoR developer who can effortlessly build with us the cleanest of all designs. We're looking for passionate Ruby on Rails developers to join our IT team in Mumbai.
Icicle builds Web & Mobile products for Startups, Brands, Digital Agencies and Enterprises, helping in bringing their ideas to life. More - www.icicletech.com
The team consists of bright young designers, hackers, senior developers, startup specialists. We are distributed with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and New York. More - www.icicletech.com
What will you do?
As a Ruby on Rails developer, you will get to:
- Participates as an independent contributor on an agile development team working closely with team members to effectively deliver high quality code.
- Complete ownership of a product or feature from development to launch.
- Coordinate and participate in the code review process to ensure delivery of high-quality, testable code using best practices and current software patterns.
- Review and mentor other team members. Be a team player!
- Get complete control of the product with active involvement in deciding stack and architecture.
What we are looking for
- Minimum 3+ years in depth hard core experience in Ruby on Rails
- Deep understanding of object-orientated programming
- A knack for writing clean, readable maintainable Ruby code.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
- Skillset in Testing using Rspec
- Demonstrated skills and experience with writing testable code and using related best practices.
- Understanding of web services technologies such as REST is required.
- Good experience and understanding of continuous integration and deployment process.
- Knowledge in working with AWS or other cloud platform
- Experience in working with limited direction while exceeding delivery expectations.
- Great communication, particularly in explaining your coding processes, suggestions for best practices, and identifying ways to improve the teams coding quality.
Technical Expertise
Core
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, Rest API
Databases
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
Testing
Rspec (or any other Unit testing framework)
Cloud/Deployments
Capistrano, Docker, Heroku, AWS, Kubernetes
Desirable Skills
- Participation in open-source projects.
- Actively involved in solving problems on Github, Stackoverflow.com and groups.
- Experience working in JS and front end frameworks (React)
- Interest in learning new technologies.
Why Icicle
- 100% work-life balance
- Competitive salary
- Perks of getting free Gym Membership vouchers.
- Medical checkup Vouchers with topnotch hospitals and coupons for medical bills.
- Exposure to futuristic technology, mentally stimulating work environment.
- Opportunity to work with a big team of experienced, committed, talented people with a great sense of humour.
- Stability of a legacy company and agility of a startup - best of both the world.
- A healthy work environment with no politics, no bureaucracy.
- Encouraged to learn new skills, grow together, not just maintain the status quo
So, if you have 3+ years of experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails, apply today!
SleepyCat is India's First Mattress-In-A-Box brand! We deliver luxury mattresses, at a fraction of the usual cost, straight from our factory to your doorstep in an easy-to-carry package.
In sleepycat we constantly thrive to make our products and customer experience better using technology.
About Role
We are currently looking out for a Ruby on Rails developer who is motivated to learn and work on challenging projects. You should have a product mindset with great technical skills. In sleepycat we promote new and fresh ideas which can directly or indirectly help customer experience and sales. Sleepycat provides to you platform to bring your thoughts into action and implement them.
Technical skills required: Ruby on Rails
You should be willing to work as a full stack going forward.
Personal and Domain Growth Initiatives
1. In SleepyCat we promote career growth. Once you are settled and have completely owned the system you are hired for, you have the freedom to pick some other technologies inside SC. You will be given time to learn and contribute. Right now we have Web Development (PHP/JS), ReactJS and Ruby on Rails. So you have the freedom to utilize 30% of your time on any of these languages if you wish to and remaining 70% on your primary domain.
2. We also promote self-growth. You can utilize 10% of your time to learn any skill you want and we will help you with that. It is not restricted to the tech domain, could be anything from marketing to sales to personality development.
Interview Process Details
Technical Round 1: Development Knowledge Round
We will test your skills in 3 domains
- understanding an existing written code and ability to make changes
- coding a logical question to test basic coding skills
- ability to think of test cases to write a full proof code
Technical Round 2: Coding Round
45 minutes coding round where you will be required to code live sharing your screen. On the spot problem will be given.
Additional details
Website: https://sleepycat.in/
Work Culture: 6 days(All Saturday half day)
Office Location: 91Springboard, Kalina, Mumbai
Employee Strength: 40+ Employees
Founded: 2017
Funding: $1.6 Million
Read about Sleepycat and funding on Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sleepycat
Learn what employees say about SleepyCat on Glassdoor: https://tinyurl.com/r9oqfkl
Checkout what people say about SleepyCat products on Google: https://tinyurl.com/rco3nqr
Company profile
We are the pioneering player in the FinTech industry in India in the institutional credit space. We have created a one of a kind online marketplace for institutional credit ‘CredAvenue’, bringing together issuers and lenders, while also participating in the marketplace through their own balance sheet. Within a short span of two years, CredAvenue has gained immense traction and boasts of multiple clients across sectors, 120+ investors across multiple segments and a high volume of credit deal closures. To read about the latest numbers we have clocked, please visit http://www.credavenue.com">www.credavenue.com.
We are backed by two of the leading global Private Equity firms and have also been successful in attracting high quality talent from some of the leading companies and universities globally. With the fundamentals in place, we are now gearing up for our next phase of high growth, and we are further building up our team to take the company to the next level.
Primary Responsibilities
- Responsible for full software life-cycle, system design and development of front-end & back-end systems
- Writing high-quality code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope
- Identify libraries and technologies worth experimentation
- Build innovative solutions from scratch and liaise with architects and engineers to build solutions
- Mentoring other team members
Required Skill
- Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience
- 2-7 years of relevant hands-on software engineering experience doing software design and development
- Proven experience of working on back-end web frameworks like RoR (preferable) or Python/Django or Node.js
- Good command over at least one JavaScript frameworks like React.js, Vue.js or Angular
- Excellent understanding of relational database structures, having knowledge of unstructured databases (NoSQL) will be an added advantage
- Expertise in object-oriented design, unit testing, integration testing, data structures, algorithms, scalable APIs, etc.
- Knowledge of working on cloud technologies and exposure of AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, etc)
- Work in a fast-paced environment and make pragmatic engineering decisions in a short amount of time
- Experience with Agile Development and Scrum methodologies.
Work Environment Details
- An opportunity to play a formative role in an ambitious financial services marketplace spanning investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional finance, retail lending and asset management
- A journey that will challenge and reward you in a manner few others will















