- 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 GoGroup
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We are GoGroup. As the name already suggests, we are a group of companies. We are on a mission to build amazing companies with amazing people. We own the processes of building these companies - be it incorporating the company or providing access to venture capital or building complete product & technology.
At GoGroup, business and tech go hand in hand. Amazing companies need strong tech from the start. That's why we believe in teaming up founders and tech engineers for our biggest opportunities. That way you work together from the very early phase and grow the company together to unicorn status and beyond.
As a group, we are building our own ventures from scratch. With that we are enabling the best tech talent to get in on massive opportunities very early on. This of course provides exciting technical challenges that you will get to work on. You will be fully focused on one of the ventures of our group, going deep on one product, getting more and more responsibility and learning a lot about the technology of that product/technology.
At the same time you will profit from the knowledge sharing across all our ventures. In our Friday Education sessions one team member is always presenting a key topic that they have been working on and which will help other team members to learn and grow.
Everything we do at GoGroup starts with people. This is why we really focus on you and will help you to identify, plan and reach your goals. Whether your career goal is to be an Engineering Manager, a CTO or a Founder, we have the programs in place to help you grow there over time within GoGroup.
Today, we are building 8 companies. We are 40 people core team and our portfolio companies have 100s of people. We continue to stay profitable and are constantly expanding our portfolio. We work on a wide array of technologies like MERN & MEAN, RoR stack, Angular, React Native, Go, SQL and NoSQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and so on. We do not tie ourselves to limited techs and aim to use the right technologies that are best suited for our startups.
Our experienced team of founders and leaders have built multiple product companies in the past and are now on a mission to to create this unique ecosystem where founders and engineers build amazing companies together.
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• At Least 4 years solid experience on Ruby on Rails, including at least one start to
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• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and other software developers to
deliver compelling user-facing products
• Lead teams of developers in architecting efficient and reusable systems that drive
complex applications across the stack
• Create instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting tools to ensure
availability/scalability during peak traffic times and implement solutions to
maximize uptime
• Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
Requirements
• A strong drive and sense of ownership of the challenges we take on, coupled with a
team-oriented, can-do attitude
• Working knowledge of standard CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms,
complexity analysis)
• A professional proficiency in English
• A systematic debugging and problem solving methodology
• Minimum of four years of experience with Rails 4/5
Benefits
• Health and wellness benefits
• Performance-based bonuses and stock options
• Employee friendly policies
• Generous vacation and time off benefits, including paid holidays
• Generally flexible working hours
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PlanetSpark is on its journey to becoming the global leader in the large and untapped communication skills segment. We are Series A funded by some top VCs and are on a 30% month-on-month growth curve. We have our footprint in India, the Middle East, North America, and Australia. Come join a passionate team of
over 900 young and energetic members and 1300+ expert and handpicked teachers on this roller coaster ride to build the most loved brand for kids who will move the world!
What would you be building:
You would be working on global consumer-facing products at a fast-growing startup that would give you
great exposure to all different aspects of full-stack development. You will work on:
· Learning Product: Creating the world’s first and most comprehensive live learning product to help kids
become confident communicators
· Teacher Product: Ever thought of how millions of Uber drivers are managed completely by technology?
You now have the chance to build technology that will manage the entire lifecycle of thousands of teachers
across the globe.
· Sales Product: PlanetSpark uses its own CRM. What this means is that the entire sales team of 500+
people use our custom-made products to drive sales. You will have the ability to design the most
sophisticated CRM by directly working with the business teams.
Roles and Responsibilities
As a Ruby on Rails developer, you will be a part of a close-knit team of 10x engineers who will get complete
accountability of designing the next-generation products of the company.
Some of the responsibilities include:
- Architect and install new infrastructure
- Design and build reusable and efficient ruby code
- Plan and implement new features
- Integrate data sources and databases in one system
- Identify the bugs and propose the solution for problems
- Work directly with the business and design teams
- Be involved in the complete product lifecycle – from design to development to deployment and feedback
- Work on a wide variety of features
- Get complete accountability of product development
Growth Path
- As a developer in a funded product company, you will find immense avenues of growth, in the form of knowledge, exposure to different technology, exposure to different products, career progression, and aggressive monetary growth based on performance.
- All 10x engineers will get unparalleled career growth and will outperform their batchmates by two times.
- You will have a structured growth path
- Work on small tasks in month 1
- Work on a complete feature in the next few months
- Get complete accountability of a product in 3 to 6 months
- Lead a product stream in 6 months to 1 year
- Lead a development team
Key Responsibilities & Requirements
You should primarily be a backend developer or full stack developer, very good at code reviews and code optimization. Our products depend on processing large amounts of data and having fast response times is absolutely essential.
You will have the opportunity to
- Take responsibility of building systems for scale
- Manage our backend systems and database optimizations
- Assist in key decisions and design architecture that drives development across products
- Define processes and help with efficient functioning of the team
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the products are scalable, maintainable and secure
What we expect from you:
- We work on Ruby on Rails but you can have 2+ years of experience as backend developer in any language
- Have a solid grasp of OOP, databases and automated testing methodologies.
- Know how to manage sprint and ensure tasks are completed within the timeline
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
- Strong understanding of SQL databases
- Proficient knowledge of various authentication methods like JWT, OAuth etc..
- Perform peer code reviews and Code audit - Analyze existing code and remediate performance issues within existing applications
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About Winkl
Please check out our product before applying to this position -
* Website - https://winkl.co
* Team - https://winkl.co/about
* Android App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.winkl.app&hl=en
* iOS App - https://www.winkl.co/app
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* At Winkl, no one tells you what to do. We don't micromanage. We don't spoon feed. As long as you're willing to learn new things, are proactive, initiate activities on your own, make mistakes and learn from them, take responsibility, stick to your word of getting things done, we think you'd be a great fit at Winkl.
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* You'll receive all possible support from your team at Winkl to help you succeed.
* Being highly accountable is a non-negotiable requirement
- Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
- Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
- Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer, or product owner
- Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
- Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
- Manage interactions with designers, testers, and other developers
Required Skills :
- 4-6 years of overall software development experience
- 2+ years of development experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with support of high-availability, high-performance, customer-facing web applications
- Expert in configuring and deploying multiple rails applications quickly
- Experience with collaborative code development in small agile teams and managing releases (Git, Continuous Integration, Capistrano)
- Experience building internal and external APIs and RESTful web services
- Strong foundation in Database ( SQL / Postgres )
- Experience deploying and managing applications on cloud-based infrastructure (Heroku/AWS)
- Outstanding understanding of software design and architecture
It will be good if you also have:
- Worked in a web startup before and been part of the core development during a high growth phase
- Practical experience with building scalable, high availability, and high-performance systems
- Hands-on background with agile development practices including test-driven development and scrums
- Contributed to open-source projects on Github
- Familiarity with a variety of programming languages and development tools
Key responsibilities
Write simple, understandable, testable, and efficient code with focus on solid technical stability and performance.
Drive technical improvement by applying software craftsmanship in everyday work as well as by identifying and executing larger refactoring/improvement initiatives.
Contribute in implementation of complex features and design work within the team.
Being part of cross team technical initiatives
Participate in and contribute to the team's Agile practices.
Take responsibility in maintaining high engineering standards, commitment to the product and respect and attitude towards others.
Skills:
Hands-on experience with modern Ruby on Rails practices and development. (1-2 years)
Experience with writing clean, maintainable and scalable code
Good awareness of the Ruby on Rails ecosystems and being in touch with the latest developments in this area
Experience in developing backend APIs/services, micro-service architecture.
Have a clear understanding of database technologies
Awareness/experience with testing methodologies like RSpec
A high-performance mindset to deliver good quality code and also an understanding of the product
Openness with working in a culture of inclusiveness and individual responsibility and experience with Agile methodologies.
Good communication skills – good knowledge of English, both written and oral
Good to have:
Working knowledge of react or other JS based frameworks.
Hands on experience with python, nodeJS, mongo db







