
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
About
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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- Modelling Database Design for large scale applications.
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- Design for the right use of micro services, containerization and observability.
- Drive technology and product innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
- Create reference implementation for our integrations and for backward compatibility.
- Not interested in managerial responsibilities
Requirements, Desired Skills and Experience
- Tech Stack based on Ruby-on-Rails, Python-Django or Node.js frameworks.
- Engineering degree
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- Build and develop SaaS and PaaS products from scratch
- Build the best-in-class UX based products
- State of Art technologies (Latest trends in the industry)
- Work with a well-knit team, almost like one’s family
- Startup culture and advantages of working in a co-working space
- Performance based career progress and high visibility with management and founders
- Writing, developing, testing, and implementing new software and web applications in Ruby
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- Testing and improving existing Ruby software
- Create sufficient documentation of the software
- Offer customers specific advice and suggestions in the Ruby area
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- Carry out troubleshooting in appropriate cases
- Good understanding of the syntax of the Ruby language
- Knowledge of RoR and libraries (Resque or RSpec)
- Knowledge of OOP
- Front-end technologies – such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Familiarity with automated testing, continuous integration
- Experience in handling and developing APIs
- Knowledge of Mocking, MVC, RESTful
- Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Knowledge of basic design principles for an app
- Skilled at code versioning tools such as Git, Mercurial, or SVN
- Enthusiasm for emerging technologies and methods
- Pragmatism, reliability, and curiosity
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
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● Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec and Resque.
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● Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
● Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Liquid, Slim, etc depending on
your technology stack).
● Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as Sass, based on project
requirements).
● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
● Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful.
● A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code.
● Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
● Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
● Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
● Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git, Mercurial or SVN)
● Familiarity with development aiding tools (such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc).
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A focus on delivering high-quality code through strong testing practices.
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* 3+ years of experience with web development building good quality production software
* Proficiency in at least one of: Ruby/Rails or Elixir/Phoenix (Good working knowledge of Elixir, OTP or OO programming)
* Gained good knowledge of working with APIs and performance optimisation to identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
* Familiar with data stores like PostgreSQL & Redis
* You write clean code, automate and continuously deploy it in fast development cycles.
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* Experience with CICD using Gitlab or AWS CodePipeline/CodeDeploy (Exposure to AWS is highly desirable)
* You are proactive and pay attention to the security, scalability, performance, availability and usability of systems
Job requirements
- A strong engineer with excellent Ruby experience working with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with Node.js
- Experience with SQL/nosql databases(Postgresql, cassandra, MongoDB)
- Experience with REST services and API design
- Experience with building the system for scale
- Experience with version control systems (bitbucket, git etc.)
- Experience working with AWS
- Experience with docker/microservices will be an added advantage
- Knowledge of unit & integration testing
- Knowledge of agile development process, jira
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