Senior Software Developer (ROR)

Things you enjoy:
● Learning new things, asking questions
● Analyzing user feedback with the team to learn on what to build
● Iterating on feedback to continuously improve features
● Building APIs and microservices for a system that can scale to millions of emails per
month
● Working closely with our product designers and frontend developers to provide a
delightful user experience
● TDD to make sure all features work as intended
Qualifications:
● B.Sc. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
● 2+ years experience working as a software engineer
● Proficiency in Ruby / Rails or equivalent web development language/framework
● Strong in SQL and relational database such as PostgreSQL

Note: Immediate to 30 days joiners only.

This is for one of our client. Exposure to work with top Global clients like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, etc

CTC is not a constraint for the right candidate.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Deliver new functionality for the internal production platform and enhancements.
Monitor and optimize application performance.
Closely collaborate with Product Management, Quality Assurance, Data Operation and IT Support on all stages of software development life cycle.
Desired experience and qualifications:

3 to 5 years of software development experience.
Ruby software development.
Web Services/Application Development.
Relational Databases, especially Oracle OR any NoSQL databases.
Ruby database libraries such as Sequel, Active Record.
Exposure to Javascript development frameworks, especially EXT JS.
Source code control systems, especially Git.
Database tools such as SQL Developer.
Cloud (mainly Azure) exposure is an added advantage.
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
Good Communication skills required for working as part of a geographically distributed software development team.

#Responsibilities:

-Design and build advanced applications from scratch keeping scalability and performance in mind.

-You’ll be working on our P2P and cryptocurrency exchange platforms to build more features around it.

-Collaborating with various stakeholders to determine software requirements

being a financial product, you’ll be involved in building tools to make our user’s data more secure.

-You will be working on blockchain technologies

-You will help maintain code quality and organization.

-Should be able to work with juniors; help and guide them as needed.

-We expect you to learn about new software technologies, and proactively look for ways to make them better.

#You'll be a good fit if:

-You’ve got 3+ years of development experience and an expert in the Ruby and Rails framework.

-You’re a Hands-on expert who can code, architect/design systems, and understand building highly available and scalable microservices on cloud infrastructure.

-You have a very good understanding of Containers and Container Orchestration Technology such as Docker / Kubernetes and AWS Cloud Platform exposure.

-You’ve hands-on experience in using DevOps tools such as Newrelic, Jenkins, Grafana, ELK, etc

-You’re an expert in writing background tasks, test-driven development.

-You enjoy collaborating with the front-end developers, DevOps, and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.

-You’re committed to quality, and your code solves more problems than it creates ;)

We are growing quickly at Tech9 and are looking for a Software Engineer with experience in Ruby on Rails and devOps. This is a great opportunity to work with a company that has a primary focus of making our customers happy by delivering value, without all the burdensome policies and rules that have become typical for outsourced software development companies. If you are looking for a change this is what we can promise you: You will have challenging problems to solve You will have flexibility and autonomy to solve problems and deliver solutions We will provide a highly collaborative environment with skilled and super friendly teammates We will fully support you in developing software the right way We won't burden you with useless policies and procedures We will provide you the tools you need to do your job right If that sounds attractive please apply! We'd love to talk to you. Here are some more details about the position: You will be hands-on writing code, unit tests, and performing peer code reviews. You will work with a project manager, software development engineers, user experience and interface designers, quality assurance engineers and customer stakeholders to deliver high quality, scalable and maintainable software solutions. Responsibilities Contribute to a team of software engineers and QA engineers to deliver commitments on time with a positive attitude. Work with project architect to ensure that patterns for scalability, maintainability and performance are developed. Follow the process for software development, testing and deployment. Ensure that assigned user stories (requirements) have sufficient detail to be implemented properly. Ensure that you have sufficient understanding of user stories to provide reliable estimates. Work with the project manager as needed to build requirements and understanding of software features. Perform peer code reviews to ensure that code standards and proper architectural patterns are followed. Attend daily meetings status meeting with the team. Make suggestions regarding improvements to the software. Be an expert in the technology stack of the software project. Required Qualifications 4+ years experience in:- Developing web applications using Ruby on Rails Performing peer code reviews. Unit testing Git and merge conflict resolution. JavaScript and frameworks like Angular/ React or similar, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS Ajax, Restful APIs and JSON SQL Scalable Architectural Patterns API Integrations Robust Web Security Desired Qualifications Experience with:- DevOps Implementation of container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes. Experience with continuous integration(Jenkins, CircleCI), continuous delivery and enterprise DevOps concepts. microservice architecture Logging, monitoring, and alerting tools Experience with React and Flux MongoDB or other No-SQL data storage Caching Technologies Cloud Platforms (Azure, Amazon or Heroku) Postman Experience working with offshore and nearshore development teams.

DeepSource is working on building tools that help developers ship good code. There are over 40 million developers in the world, and all of them write and review code in some form. The Language Engineering team works on the source code analyzers, including both programming languages and configuration-as-code systems. As a member of the Language Engineering team, you will work on building the best, most comprehensive, Ruby analyzer in the world. You will add new rules and Autofixes for finding more issues with code and automatically fixing them. You will be involved with the community to understand the problems with static analysis tools in the Ruby ecosystem.

• Identify bad code practices in Ruby and write new analyzers to detect them.

• Improve the coverage of automatically fixable issues.

• Ensure fewer false-positives are reported by the analyzer.

• Work on the internal tools that support analysis runtimes.

• Contribute to open-source static analysis tools.

• Strong foundational knowledge in Computer Science.

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience in Ruby.

• Understanding of the nuances of execution of the source code (AST, data flow graphs, etc).

• Familiarity with Ruby best practices followed in the industry.

• Native experience with Linux/Unix environment.

• A focus on delivering high-quality code through strong testing practices.

We offer competitive compensation with meaningful stock options, a generous vacation policy, and a workstation of your choice, to name a few of the perks.

MVC architecture

Ruby and Rails

Creating JSON based web services from Ruby on Rails (RoR) apps

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Ajax, lodash/underscore.js

A firm grasp of object-oriented analysis and design

Good to have knowledge in any front end framework, Angular or above versions, Backbonejs, Ember.js

Should have extensive experience in Agile software development principles, practice, and process

Should have worked on enterprise-cl applications

RoR Performance tuning and scaling

Proficiency in English strongly preferred

A proactive and resourceful person who achieves with minimal oversight

Team player with the ability and desire to become an integral part of a fast-paced team

Good knowledge of relational databases MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2 or similar

Hands-on experience with at least one of the NoSQL environments like MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra

Experience with text search systems like elastic, solr or similar

Hands-on experience in integrating with third-party REST APIs

Managing code with Git and other version control tools

Good to have knowledge of Nginx  

Responsible: ● Responsible for championing persistence, business logic and other back-end layers architectural and SDLC process strategy as well as the planning and successful execution of said strategy ● Effectively balance technical leadership and software engineering individual contributor responsibilities ● Directly or indirectly drive BE projects and provide architectural and technical leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment ● Continually retrospect and drive innovation within the back-end development process to ensure our software engineers execute at the highest possible level ● Hire, onboard, develop and manage Back-End (BE) engineers ● Manage Tech Debt management ● Responsible for execution of SDLC processes to include sprint pre-planning/planning, retros, demos, architecture and code reviews ● Work closely with the rest of the tech leads, data scientists, senior engineering leadership and product managers to ensure we're building awesome, feature-rich, scalable and secure product lines, products and features ● Work closely with the rest of the tech leads and senior engineering leadership team to ensure we're building highly reusable codebase ● Provide the mentoring and guidance to BE engineers. Create an environment for BE engineers to continually reach new heights within their career Requirements: ● 10 plus years solid experience in back end open source based technologies, including at least 4 - 5 years in Ruby or RoR cloud based ecosystems ● 4 plus years solid experience as a technical lead, including at least 2 years in large scale platform environment ● CS degree required or equivalent work experience ● Solid procedural and object oriented Software Engineering fundamentals ● 3 plus years of relevant experience managing fast-paced and dynamic Scrum team ● A proven track record of senior level software engineering and architecture accomplishments in a high-capacity, large-scale, internet-based product platform ● Capable of technical deep-dives, yet verbally and cognitively agile enough to hold their own in a strategy discussion with senior technical or product leadership ● Comfortable recruiting a team of very bright, experienced engineers capable of working on projects and at scale unlike any other they've encountered ● Very experienced with Agile / Scrum methodologies ● Outstanding communication skills, both written and oral ● Expert understanding of RoR framework ● Solid understanding of AWS services ● Solid experience with containerized applications and serverless functions ● Strong understanding of and experience with testing practices ● Strong automation and CI / CD experience ● Pivotal Tracker or Jira, Docker, CI/CD, GitHub tools experience, some would say you are a master ● If I asked your previous team members about you, they would say you were a great leader and even better contributor. They would also very much welcome an opportunity to work for you once again

Description

We are looking for talented engineers who are passionate about using software
engineering to make kids love to learn and redefine learning@home. You will
have an opportunity to work in a highly motivated fast paced environment in a fastest
growing Ed-Tech company. You will be building platforms and services to be used across
various products. You will have the opportunity to create significant impact on our
systems, our business and most importantly on the life of millions of our students as we
take on challenges that will reshape education industry. You will operate at the
intersection of diverse disciplines - Backend, Frontend, Big Data, ML, Computer vision
and various open source tech. You will build solutions for Byju’s learning Apps as well as
few upcoming products with huge market potential and are high on innovation.
We are looking for smart people with excellent coding skills and can-do attitude.
Candidates should be eager to learn, flexible to pivot when needed, savvy enough to
thrive in a dynamic environment and should possess a growth mindset.

Roles & Responsibilities

● Writes high quality code & unit tests, builds, tests as per agreed timelines
● Participates in technical design and provides estimation
● Owns one or more small to medium features
● Becomes a go-to person in at least one area
● Communicates clearly and gets clarification upfront to minimize rework. Knows when
to ask for help to unblock.
● Consistently follows and promotes SDLC best practices: Coding standard, testing,
code reviews, code comments etc.
● Exhibit strong problem solving skills, helps other developers and demonstrates
teamwork

Ideal Candidate Profile

● Understands detailed requirements and demonstrates excellent problem solving skills
● Deep understanding of software engineering practices, Design Patterns, Data
Structures, Algorithms
● Excellent programming skills in ROR, Golang, NodeJS, Python
● Strong communication skills
● Strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to deliver results
● A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably
IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes)
● Experience in Golang, RoR, Unity, ML or Python will be an added advantage

Requirements of technical abilities 4 to 15 Years of development experience with Ruby on Rails Awesome senior ROR developers, hands-on tech-leads, hands-on-architects for building world class super scalable and highly available e-commerce marketplace application. Expertise of performing the tasks that need advanced rails tech skills. Should be an advocate and mentor juniors to adhere to the best practices TDD, RSpec, Factory-Girl, Faker, simplecov Rubocop Capistrano/Vagrant Continuous Integration Should be well-versed with MetaProgramming. Experience of deploying AWS Cloud servers Experience of the optimizations to scaling the environment to suiting the needs of the increasing traffic loads and increasing database content. Strong with RDBMS skills and perform DB optimizations. Previous experience of Spree commerce will be an added advantage. Development with ReactJS will be an added advantage. Should be a fast learner with the new and upcoming technologies as required for the team. Responsibilities You will be part of a small team, with a significant amount of ownership and accountability for managing things directly. You will ship high-quality solutions with a sense of urgency and speed. You will work closely with product managers, Operations, Testing and other partner teams. A Large part of the job will be solving bigger problems. You will have the freedom to suggest and drive organization-wide initiatives. Set the guidelines for the team member to produce highest quality code and follow best-practices. Review code and make suggestions for the better code and product quality. Review designs for features-extensibility, scalability and preserving the architecture sanctity, You will mentor the Juniors to help them pick up the regular tasks and move on to newer and bigger challenges.