Senior Software Engineer (ROR)

What you will be working on?

• Driving product implementation from conceptualisation to delivery. This would involve planning and breaking down projects, leading architectural discussions and decisions, building high quality documentation and architecture diagrams, and driving the execution end to end.
• Own the development practices, processes, and standards for your team
• Own the technical architecture, drive engineering design, and shoulder critical decisions
• Understand, prioritize and deliver the feature roadmap while chipping away at the technical debt
• Work effectively with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, developers, and QA
• Own the communication of the team’s progress and perception of the team itself
• Collaborate with the Support team to keep track of and triage technical issues and track them through to resolution
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to drive sourcing, screening, interviewing, and recruitment of the right talent for your team
• Continuously improve the productivity of your team by identifying investments in technology, process, and continuous delivery
• Own the morale of your team, unblock them at critical junctures, and break ties in a timely manner
• Own the careers of your team members, deliver regular and timely feedback, represent your team for annual reviews and reward your performers
• You will nurture and grow the team in order to deliver path-breaking solutions, as outlined above, for the business in the coming years

What we are looking for?

• 7+ years of total relevant experience with a minimum of one year of actively managing and owning the delivery of a high-performing engineering team.
• Bachelor's Degree in a technical field
• Ability to work in a very fast-paced environment with high degrees of vagueness.
• Excellent database knowledge and data modeling skills
• Excellent leadership skills to manage and mentor teams
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems
• Superior management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience in delivering high-quality projects on time
• Track record of individual technical achievement
• Excellent command in CS fundamentals and in at least one interpreted language (PHP / Python / RoR)
• Experience developing software in a commercial software product development environment
• Experience leading teams that built software products for scale
• Excellent communication skills, open, collaborative, and proven team player
• Experience working with global customers and experience with agile processes and Serverless Architecture is a plus

• Responsible for providing technical leadership, design and development of complex pieces of the service oriented architecture based platform.
• Modelling Database Design for large scale applications.
• Develop for performance engineering.
• 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 

   Opportunities for the right candidate

• 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

• 3 - 5 years of progressive IT experience with a minimum of 1+ years in building Ruby on Rails Web applications and RESTful API endpoints
• Proficient with scripting languages, specifically Python and Bash
• Experience in Object Oriented Java Script.
• Must have Linux command line experience.
• Good experience in developing and integrating reliable REST web services.
• Possess good communication, organizational and creative thinking skills.
• Multi-tasking individual that likes to work both in a team environment and individually
• Excellent technical abilities, leadership, decision making, and adaptability to new technology
• Good knowledge of Agile processes and practice
• Team player

Responsibilities

• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of engineers
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
• Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product decisions

Apply If You have:

• Graduation/Post Graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
• 6-10 years of strong experience in JAVA(Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), JavaScript, NodeJS with good exposure to MySQL
• Experience with AWS, Microservices, Caching, Performance Optimization, Nginx, Solr, Redis, Redshift
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in dynamic and disruptive environment
• 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of backend, frontend and QA.
• Hands on writing and reviewing code
• Exceptional design and architectural skills
• Strong communication skills
• High motivation to work in a fast paced, dynamic, collaborative team environment