Senior Software Developer (ROR)

About Simpl:
Simpl (Fintech of the year - 2020) is a platform that empowers retailers to grow by building long term trusted relationships with their customers, one transaction at a time. For consumers, Simpl provides frictionless access to e-commerce, trust, safety and effortless budgeting, in 1-click.
Under the hood, we are building the payments infrastructure (identity, trust score and security) ground up for a world that is mobile first, where consumers frequently buy on the go & love convenience.

Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards a new world of Networked Commerce where commerce is easy, safe, affordable without fine prints & just Simpl!

Simpl was founded in 2015 by Nityanand Sharma and Chaitra Chidanand, and went live in 2016.

Role Summary:
We’re looking for polyglot developers who love to code. You should have >4 years of experience building high-quality products. You should have the ability to write clean code and must’ve worked on Ruby on Rails

-Experience in common third-party APIs (Google, Facebook, -Payment Gateways etc) -Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas -Understanding client requirements & functional specifications -Developing and maintaining dynamic websites and web applications -Ensuring foolproof performance of the deliverable -Coordinating with co-developers and other related departments

Responsibilities:
● Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
● Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores,
etc.).
● Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
● Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
● Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization.

Skills:
● Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec and Resque.
● Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances.
● 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).
● Familiarity with continuous integration.

Architectural:

Design and implement a software architecture

Select a technology stack

Design and configure infrastructure

Select a development toolkit (IDE, etc.)

Design and implement a database design

Improve and optimise the application architecture

Ensure scalability of the application

Ensure scalability of the infrastructure

Explore new technologies and decide whether to implement them

 

Strategy, planning, and design:

• Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify technology requirements, define the future product vision, create preliminary design concepts for add-on modules and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founders, business development, and marketing team.
• Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback.

 

Implementation and deployment:

• Manage Product Release, QA cycles, feature implementation and on time delivery through in-house team and vendors.
• Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases.
• Creation of wireframes/prototypes, site maps and user-flows for web and mobile platforms.

 

Operational management :

• Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics.
• Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing.
• Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed.
• Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage.
• Set-up data collection and analysis system in collaboration with CEO to track key performance.

metrics.

Strong fundamentals in computer science/engineering and algorithm design.

Practical knowledge of computer software algorithms in machine/deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision etc.

 

Personal Requirements:

• Min of 7+ years of Hands on experience in Web app development, payment gateways implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.
• Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.
• Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and utilise emerging technologies.
• Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant

 

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

Front-End - Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3 - Proficient understanding of Frontend (CSS) frameworks like Bootstrap or Foundation - Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery - Proficient understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX - Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them. - Proficient understanding of code versioning tool, such as Git. - Good understanding of any of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks, such as AngularJS, VueJs, ReactJS etc. - Good to have knowledge of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS - Good to have knowledge of JS-based build tools like GruntJs, GulpJs, Browserify, web pack etc Back-End : - Proficient understanding of API design and development. - Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform - Understanding accessibility and security compliance. - User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments. - Proficient understanding of Database Management Systems like MySQL. - Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system. - Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes - Proficient understanding of Server-side technologies like PHP (MVC Frameworks) and Java. - Proficient understanding of Linux Servers and shell scripting. - Good understanding of other Server-side technologies like NodeJs or Python. - Good to have knowledge of Document Oriented Database System like MongoDB. - Good to have knowledge of Apache Solr. Full Stack HTML5 CSS3 DBMS Data Integration API Java Javascript jQuery Shell Scripting PHP

Cogoport is looking for a tech enthusiast who is capable of building creative features that positively impact hundreds of millions of international customers, and is highly motivated with a passion for building high-level systems that scale to hundreds of millions of transactions.

Ideal candidate should be able to guide multiple projects at once in a dynamic and expeditious environment. You will be responsible for developing a world-class product with clean, well-documented code and at the same time ensuring high performance & scalability using proper design principles. You will be responsible for writing server-side web application logic as well as for the integration of the front-end part. Needless to mention you have demonstrated ability towards urgency, ownership, sharing success and competent enough to excel prevailing engineering velocity at Cogoport.

You should be a modern thinker and believer of manager and hierarchy free organisation like Cogoport. The ideal candidate would be assessed basis the defined role fitment. Critical is that you are curious and learner to be able to seek out and evaluate new ideas and bringing them back into the organisation. If you have outstanding programming skills and a great passion for developing beautiful, innovative applications, then let's get in touch!

1. Problem Solving: You should have the rigour and discipline to approach most of the problems and ensure the delivery of quality work ahead of timelines. You are able to look at a problem, define and brainstorm ways to achieve an optimal solution and pick the best engineering approach to bring the software productivity.

2. Architectural Design: You should have in-depth knowledge to design highly scalable architecture. You have strong experience in building products ensuring scalability in tech architecture & design implementation.

3. Database: Should have strong expertise in the database to manipulate data in the software system to minimize data redundancy and maximize the speed of retrieval. Knowledge of MongoDB, MySql, PostgreSQL database is preferred.

4. Algorithm Skills: You should be adept in all algorithm aspects to define an efficient way of solving the problem. You will solve complex problems with algorithms embedded in logical thinking and creating the most efficient and optimum code.

5. Code Quality: Enhancing the code quality by structuring the code & making sure that all the guidelines are followed to ensure enhancing code efficiency & reduction of code failure & bug rectification.

6. Product Inclination: A Software Engineer not only gets involved in coding but should equally understand the product/feature to think & cover all the possible business edge cases coming on the way.

Developers should be familiar with full stack web-development, with fluency in developing front-end of a web application as well as should be able to work on server side of web programming. They should be good solutions architects, and should be able to look across the entire stack of technologies to develop great usable, solid, scalable web applications. Requirements and abilities : ● Must have a software development experience of atleast 3 years ● Knowledge of both the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application. ● Should be expert in ReactJs frontend stack ● Should be familiar with Python Django framework ● Must have lead a project development & delivery end-to-end ● Up-to-date on emerging technologies ● Network concepts that include the different set of Protocols ● Should have good interpersonal and communication skills Responsibilities : ● Build and maintain scalable and high performing web sites and solutions ● Develop and optimize existing features, as well as prototype and implement new projects ● Develop secure and robust API applications to serve data ● Integrate with external web services ● Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging ● Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders .

This position is worth 15+ lakhs. But we are bootstrapped. Nevertheless good equity on offer. The startup is in its very early stage and hence this is a very early key position with good equity. It is currently bootstrapped. Your team will consist of A-Team members as We have a stringent recruitment process and The probability of getting selected is 2%. 1 in 50 will make it. The technology and the idea is super futuristic. And has garnered wild interest from investors, potential customers and others. You will build a product that meets global needs. We follow lean processes and are extremely customer centric. We follow business mode canvas and value proposition design to the core. The Startup Owner's Manual is our bible. And Steve Blank our God! We will win every award and recognition there is in all categories that apply to us. Why not? We won't accept a second place. You must be a team player and not a lone wolf. You are humble to the core and are willing to put the head down and build an out of the world product. Let your work do the talking. You must be a great conversationist , and current with the best tends, patterns and practices and should solve a problem in five different smart ways. You should be a music lover but not the types who tortures the team with Apple-Pineapple song! You are massively self driven ... so much that if you weren't reading this, you'd probably be climbing the Everest! Overall - you are the kinds who wants to make an impact before you are gone! Hope on board if this is who what why you are!

Job description We are looking for a Web Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users, as well as translating the UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce the visual elements of the application. You will also design the overall architecture of the web application and evolve it to ensure maximum performance and stability. Responsibilities • Design of the overall architecture of the web application • Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs to power the web application • Building reusable code and libraries for future use • Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability • Implementation of security and data protection • Translation of UI/UX wireframes to visual elements • Integration of the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application • Work on supporting and adding new functionalities to native mobile applications Skills and Qualifications • Proficient knowledge of a back-end programming language PHP, Java, Node.JS • Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms (such as mobile vs, desktop), and optimizing output to match the specific platform • Good understanding of server-side templating language EJS • Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes for platforms like MySQL, Redis • Data migration, transformation, and scripting • Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes • Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application • Ability to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests • Good understanding of front end CSS frameworks like bootstrap, Materialize etc. • Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as AngularJS • Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery • Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, ability to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. Familiarity with tools such as as Photoshop is a plus. • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git) • Minimum education qualification of BTECH or BE in Computer Science or Information Technology required.