
StackAvenue is an innovative Software Company who builds and manages awesome software for many organisations including ourselves and in various technologies to serve the needs of multiple industries.We specialise in:
- Software Architecture and Design.
- Development and Testing.
- Deployments and Operations.
Roles & Responsibilities :
We are looking for Senior Software Developer (Elixir/ROR) who have past experience in Elixir or Erlang.
- Design and write with the cutting edge Elixir/ ROR language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the company's range of products.
- Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
- Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
- Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.
- Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
- Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.
- Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale distributed systems.
Qualifications :
We are looking for developers with 5+ years of experience of which 1-2 yrs of past work experience with ROR / Elixir or Erlang. In terms of Elixir we expect the following:
- You should be aware of idiomatic programming in Elixir, and should have good awareness of concepts such as pattern matching, recursion, and behaviors.
- You should be well versed with concurrency and processes in Elixir.
- You should be hands on with Genservers, Tasks, Agents, Supervisors, and other OTP concepts in Elixir.
- Plus points if you have worked with data processing libraries such as Genstage, Flow and Broadway.
- 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
- You should have good experience working with relational and non-relational databases. We use Postgres and Cassandra.
- Good to have but not mandatory working experience with caching tools such as Redis, Queue mechanism setup with RabbitMQ.
- Good knowledge of version management with Git.
- Awareness of TDD.
- CI/CD knowledge would be a huge advantage.
- Will to design and maintain large scale distributed systems.
- Past experience in building complex applications, either by yourself, or as part of a larger team
- Desire (obsessive?) for maintainability.
- Experience of working with cross-functional remote teams in an Agile software development framework.
- Experience in designing APIs with proper documentation.
- Ability to write useful and maintainable tests.
- Good understanding of the common architectural patterns and design principles.
- Solid understanding of how modern web applications work.
- (Nice to have) Being an active member of the Elixir community (writing blog posts, giving presentations in meetups, etc).
- Strong written and verbal communications skills in English to engage a variety of large audiences, internally and externally.
- Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in any relevant discipline.

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Experience &
Skills |
● 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 ● 12+ 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) |


- Deliver features in an end-to-end manner: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Provide technical leadership and own specific areas of the platform.
- Work closely with Product Managers to translate product requirements to engineering specifications.
- Lead code review efforts and quality efforts in your area of ownership.
- Participate in product discussions, taking ownership and initiative.
- Work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Mentored and guide junior engineers.
Must Haves:
- Minimum 2 years of working experience in Ruby on Rails/ Python/ Node.JS.
- Strong problem-solving skills, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent experience on databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
- Familiarity with tools for code reviews, version control (GIT).
- A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby/ Python/Node.JS code.
- Experience in application server hosting and monitoring.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
Nice to Have:
- Hands-on with search platforms (Solr, Elasticsearch, etc).
- Prior experience with microservices-based architecture/SOA/distributed systems.
- Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- Experience with common AWS service EC2, RDS, S3, SES, etc.
Key Competencies:
- Building Effective Team
- Solving Problems Creatively
- Learning Agility
- Drive For Result
- Working with Databases and Linux platform
- Understanding algorithms, databases and their space and time complexities
- Writing unit and integration tests with reasonable coverage of code and interfaces
- Solving complex and interesting problems
- Taking up a high level of ownership and commitment towards the business and product vision
What you need to have:
- Minimum 1-year experience
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities
- Strong hands-on and practical working experience with at least one programming language: C/Java/C++/C#
- Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently
- Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals
- Hands-on experience working with Databases and Linux platform is a plus
- B-Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college
- Good experience in at least one general programming language (Java, Ruby, Clojure, Scala, C/C++, Python and SQL)
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems, Worked in startup like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
- Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design into code fluently
- Good skills to write unit & integration tests with reasonable coverage of code & interfaces
- TDD is a plus

If you were looking for a rocket-ship, this is it!
* 1+ 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.
* Experience in designing and building scalable and distributed systems
* 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.









