Senior Backend Engineer

We are looking for a Senior backend engineer who can work closely with our product team to build and maintain our core product.

Responsibilities:
● Collaborate with engineering, design and product teams to design and ship new
features. Identify and solve bottlenecks and fix bugs.
Desirable Qualifications:
● Deep knowledge of Ruby on Rails (RoR) practices and commonly used modules; deep
understanding of RoR internals like databases, API, caching, proxies, web services,
performance and scalability.
● Experience creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.
● Experience in SQL and NoSql databases in production environments. Experience
working with Git, AWS/GCP.
● Good communication skills
● 4+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to the backend of the product development.
• Maintaining these applications for accuracy and high availability.
• Contributing to and enforcing great coding practices through code reviews.
• Sharing knowledge with your colleagues during regular knowledge Sharing sessions.
• Collaborate across functions and own the planning, estimation and execution for parts of the product.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve system designs, architecture and implementation standards.

Requirements:

• Experience of architecting and building products/business critical backend applications using Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL.
• Experience of deploying and maintaining web applications.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure like AWS, GCP etc.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and stress testing tools.
• Good communication skills.

About Us:

 

Developed in formal collaboration with the University of Cambridge in May 2000, HeyMath! is an Ed-Tech company whose mission is to Raise the Game in Maths for school systems around the world. We do this using technology to deliver engaging teaching methodologies and personalised learning paths for students. HeyMath! has been successfully adopted by CBSE schools since 2004, with positive outcomes for the entire ecosystem.

 

Check us out at www.heymath.com

 

We plan to work mainly from home in 2022 and the virtual office atmosphere is collegiate, informal and friendly, with small high-impact teams making a difference to customers.

 

What we are looking for:

 

Experience in building and re-engineering cloud based solutions on AWS.

Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Programming(OOPS) and design patterns is a must. Hands-on development on Spring MVC framework.

Experience working on Java 8 or above.

Must have very good knowledge of RDBMS such as MySQL and performance tuning of the same.

Exposure to server-side and client-side caching mechanisms. Ability to debug the applications and provide instant workable solutions.

Experience working on Elastic Search / Kafka / Kubernetes or all is a nice to have.

Job Description:
We are looking for 2 - 10 years experienced Ruby on Rails and VueJS developer responsible for building
applications, including anything from complex groups of back-end micro-services to command line utilities and
data processing scripts. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications, and to
coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to
collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and building quality products is essential.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and implement new modules and APIs for the BEAM Product
• Plan, build and launch features for our products
• Write unit, functional, and integration tests
• Estimate development tasks and meet deadline
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, and product design team members
• Scale our applications as our user base grows
Mandatory Skills & Experience:
Ability to work & develop in Linux environment
• A solid understanding of Ruby
• 5+ years of web application engineering experience with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, Responsive Design, Caching
• 1+ years of experience with a front-end framework (Vue.js & GIT)
• Solid 2+ plus years of web dev experience building web UI/UX interactions.
• 5+ years of experience improving the performance of Ruby on Rails applications with Memcached &
background job processing frameworks (Sidekiq, Resque etc.)
• Hands on experience in deploying applications using AWS Infrastructure using Capistrano automated
deployment.

• Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
• Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions
• Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time
• Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions
• Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them.
• Drives people to solve engineering challenges
• Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams
• Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and

internal/external clients as necessary.

• Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them
• Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards

● Significantly contributes in hiring high performance candidates

• Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
• Must have experience in cloud computing
• Operates independently with almost no oversight
• Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the

team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.

• Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
• Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership
• Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
• 7+ years of experience in product driven organization
• A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably

IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)

The primary responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the overall software development lifecycle.
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
• Manage stakeholder planning and communications ensuring key outcomes
• Recruit, coach, and mentor the best engineering and management talent
• Build, coach, and manage a strong team of engineers that set the standard and can up-level the overall talent of the extended organization.
• Provide a strong understanding of native mobile developer platforms and bring broad thought leadership to the next generation mobile developer experience.
• Anticipate and aggressively remove obstacles that slow down or prevent products and programs from delivering on product and program objectives.
• Balance urgent and effective action, commitment to excellence, and taking the initiative to resolve problems; holds internal stakeholders accountable where appropriate.

REQUIRED

• 8+ years of industry experience with 2+ years of senior leadership experience.
• Solid track record of over-achieving engineering and platform delivery and scaling targets in high volume, innovative and fast-paced high-pressure environment; proven results in delivery on platform product.
• Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Python/Scala. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs with skilled knowledge on UI technologies like Angular 2+, React, D3.JS
• Working experience with Agile methodologies and durable team concepts.
• Knowledge in DevOps practices and tools.
• Knowledge in Cloud Technologies, CI/CD, Jenkins, Testing methodologies is preferred.
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, Kafka
• A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.

An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong programming and product management skills

What we are looking for:
Speed, passion, attention to details, get it done attitude, long term association and 1st principal thinking and lastly team player with ZERO insecurities. Learning opportunities will surely be huge.

Responsibilities:
1. Build new services to meet critical product and business needs.
2. Design scalable systems to solve problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
3. Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.
4. Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
5. Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.


Requirements & Qualifications
1. 3-7 years of recent hands-on coding and software design.
2. Bachelor degree or more in Computer Science or a related field.
3. A track record of projects completed on time – you are a flawless executor, not a procrastinator.
4. You find satisfaction in a job well done and want to solve head-scratching challenges.
5. Experience with all phases of the software development life cycle, best practices and Agile Software Development.
6. Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives.
7. Establish Back-End Software Engineer best practices.
8. Working experience with NodeJS, PostgreSQL, In memory Database like Redis, Messaging Queues like RabbitMQ/Kafka

We are looking to hire a talented ruby on rails developer to manage the interchange of data between our users and the server. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the server-side logic for the central database, testing performance, troubleshooting, and integrating front-end elements into the application.

To ensure success as a ruby on rails developer, you should have extensive experience working with ruby and back-end integration techniques. Ultimately, a top-level ruby on rails developer can create clean, functional code that perfectly suits the needs of the company.

• 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.

• 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.
• Experience with AngularJS or BackboneJS.
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim and Liquid.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

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