- 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
About
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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Job Description
Ruby on Rails
The key aspects of this role:
· Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using Ruby
· Contribute to the entire implementation process including driving the definition of improvements based on business needs
· Act as a subject matter expert for Application Software developers and Engineers
· Handle server-side code for a production platform and contribute to new features.
To be the right fit, you'll need:
· Must have ROR as primary skill with good experience in server side scripting
· Must have used Ruby as scripting language & Rails as framework
· Good understanding & hands on experience on any frameworks in ruby : Watir, Capybera, Faraday
· Rest Web API development (Server & Client) experience will be an added advantage.
· Understanding of HTML/CSS/Angular JS will again an added advantage
· Good knowledge in DevOPS tools
· Experience to work in agile scrum model projects
Location: Pune, Hyderabad, Gandhinagar
1. As a founding backend engineer, design, build and evolve the backend architecture
of our product to support customer-facing and internal features to serve 1000s of
customers and millions of data requests per hour
2. You will engage in technical decisions from choosing the optimal database design to
best-practice infrastructure decisions
3. You will proactively incorporate best practices for security, analytics, and monitoring
4. You will contribute to DevOps by building procedures for deployment,
troubleshooting, and maintenance
5. You will work directly with the CTO to set the tone for the engineering culture
This role is tailor-made for you if
1. You have 4+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying production-level
large-scale web applications
2. You have hands-on experience with Node JS and other programming languages
(Ruby, Go, Python)
3. You have worked previously on PostgreSQL, SQL, and Message Queue 4. Practical
knowledge and experience in deploying and managing big data applications on a cloud
platform like AWS or Google Cloud.
5. You are comfortable conducting code reviews and giving feedback to ensure high
standards of code maintainability and extensibility.
6. You are energized by ambiguity and can create structure in a dynamic, fast-paced
environment
7. You’ve high confidence, low ego, and are generally a good human being :)
You earn brownie points if
1. You love Slack (we are a Slack first company)
2. You have been part of an early/mid-stage start-up before
3. You love TechCrunch. We are obsessed with reading and talking about startups
4. You have created some amazing open-source projects
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES (include but are not limited to)
Implement new features using Ruby on Rails/ReactJS/MySql/AWS tech stack.
Learn our cloud-based application and our human business processes.
Reduce risk by identifying a portion of the application code that can modularized into its own
service; set up an API between that service and the main application.
Company Introduction (apna)
We are building a novel platform to create better economic opportunities for the blue/grey
workforce around the world. We are a very product focused and customer obsessed company. Delivering high quality products at lightning speed is our USP. If you are looking for challenging work and rapid merit based growth in your career, look no further and welcome aboard.
Checkout our product on Google Play store apna - Job Search App | Job Groups
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer responsible looking for engineering ownership of one/many products at apna. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end (Android + WebApp). A basic understanding of front-end technologies is therefore necessary as well.
Responsibilities
● Take ownership of end-to-end product development
● Be champion of Test Driven Development methodology
● Building reusable code and libraries for future use
● Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
● Implementation of security and data protection
● Technical Documentation around the owned product
Skills And Qualifications
● Expert level in OOPS concepts and REST API development
● Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Ruby, Go
● Knowledge around ElasticSearch, Celery, Redis is must
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
● Knowledge of GCP would be a plus
Perks
● Have autonomy to work from home. Only one rule: Get things Done!
● We promote and celebrate team members contributing at a variety of professional
conferences and events. Be a speaker, contribute to open sourcepublish academic
work, publish an online blog showing your expertise. we are here to encourage you!
● You join us in your current area of expertise and let us know about your personal
professional goals. Looking to start your company? Further studies at the best institutes?
Want to change career track? We make sure you reach there!
● Generous pool of ESOPs







