Senior Software Engineer/SDE - 2

About GeoSnapshot:

GeoSnapshot is a leading platform enabling sports and event organizers to upload, share, and sell photos with participants. Our team operates in a fast-paced, collaborative, and fully remote environment. We value creativity, independence, and a strong desire to learn and grow with us.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a motivated and talented Ruby on Rails Developer with React experience to join our dynamic remote team. You will work on our core platform, contributing to both backend (Ruby on Rails) and frontend (React) development. As a part of a small but highly skilled team, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, take ownership of features, and make a real impact.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance, and maintain features on the GeoSnapshot platform using Ruby on Rails.
• Build responsive and interactive front-end components using React.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other developers, to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code, adhering to best practices.
• Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize performance issues across the stack.
• Work independently while staying aligned with team goals and timelines.
• Learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks as needed.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails and React.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and how to integrate them with front-end applications.
• Proficient in relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL or MySQL) and ORM frameworks.
• Familiarity with modern JavaScript (ES6+), CSS3, and HTML5.
• Experience with version control systems like Git.
• Comfortable working in a remote setup and communicating effectively in a distributed team.
• Self-motivated and eager to learn new tools and technologies.

Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have):

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or similar.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Understanding of photo management systems or e-commerce platforms.

Why Join GeoSnapshot?

• Work in a fully remote, flexible environment.
• Be part of a growing, innovative team working on impactful solutions.
• Opportunities for professional growth and learning new technologies.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Experience working with ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.
• Ability to write clean ruby code.

• gathering and analyzing user/business system requirements, Participate in design meetings and consult with clients to refine, test and debug programs to meet business.
• Develop, test and implement new software programs
• Identifying areas for modification in existing programs and subsequently developing these modifications
• Clearly and regularly communicate with management and technical support colleagues
• Design and Applications, Web Sites, Data Communication Processes and User Interfaces
• Writing and implementing efficient code
• Determining operational practicality
• Test, maintain and recommend software improvements to ensure strong functionality and optimization
• Working closely with other developers, UX designers, business and systems analysts
• Analyze user requirements , Make good technical decisions that provide solutions to business challenges
• achieve resolution to outstanding problems or issues
• Communicate effectively and professionally in all forms of communication with internal and external customers
• Possess strong problem solving and decision making skills while using good judgment

Responsibilities:-

• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications
• Integrate software components and third-party programs
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Gather and evaluate user feedback
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Ensure highest standard of performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.

Requirements:-

• Overall 3-7 years of software engineering experience working with web applications and backend systems.
• At least 2 years of experience in production environment working with Ruby on Rails along with common libraries such as RSpec, Sidekiq, Redis.
• Strong understanding of concepts like MVC, ORM, and RESTful
• Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of server-side templating languages like SLIM and CSS pre-processors like SASS.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Strong experience working with Linux like Operating Systems and shell environments like Bash, ZSH.
• Strong knowledge of integrating multiple databases into one system.
• Basic understanding of systems architecture and fundamental design principles behind a scalable web application.
• Ability to understand business requirements, derive database schemas and translate them into technical specifications and code.
• Strong hands on experience of Relation Databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL with ability of benchmarking and performance optimisation.
• Strong knowledge of any NoSQL database like MongoDB.
• Strong experience practicing TDD and writing test cases to achieve highest code coverage.
• Experience working with search engines like Elasticsearch, Solr is a plus.
• Experience integrating third party software and payment gateways is a plus.
• Experience deploying applications to cloud and setting up CI/CD is a plus.
• Experience building container images using tools like Docker is a plus.
• Experience with any popular JavaScript frameworks like React JS, Angular JS is a plus.
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies.

We’re looking for a Ruby on Rails Software Engineer/Shopify App Developer who has experience working with the Shopify platform and is able to work on a Shopify app.

Your Daily Challenges

When we welcome you aboard we’ll introduce you to your Team, which consists of a front-end developer, a Shopify App Marketer who grew 2 apps to million dollar annual revenue, and a product manager.

These are the people you’ll work closely with on Product development day-to-day. Once you get settled in and learn more about the team, your day to day activities will look something like this:

1. Own the end-to-end development cycle for the Shopify app you’ll be working on.
2. Coordinate with fellow developers to get things done on time. 
3. Implement high quality code in an agile, test driven development environment
4. Review exception reports to identify and fix bugs
5. Development of new apps and features
6. Maintenance of existing features
7. Collaboration with cross-functional teams
8. Contributions of ideas to improve the product

Your Experience

1. 3-5 years of experience with Ruby on Rails
2. Experience with Shopify app development
3. Familiar with Sidekiq, PostgreSQL
4. Good understanding of HTML and CSS (positioning and styling)
5. Excellent communication skills
6. Takes pride in writing clean, organized, efficient code
7. An eye for detail
8. Experience with vanilla JavaScript and React a plus
9. Experience working in an entrepreneurial/startup environment

Your Compensation

1. The compensation range for this role is INR 14-18 LPA (~25K USD) + up to 5% equity.
2. The compensation varies with experience and qualifications. 
3. This is a full-time remote/work from home position.

Thanks for the time you took to read about this opportunity.

Opportunity in our Product Team?
Our system has over 4 products & 12 modules designed by product managers working with banking & finance experts. The company’s growth from here is based on a multi-product strategy. The way we’re scaling our product team is in-line with the company’s strategy.

Your customers are the CFOs & Finance Teams in mid to large scale enterprise businesses and you will build these products to solve the problems faced by them.

You’ll become familiar with all parts of our stack from end to end. You’ll design and implement features to be scalable and resilient by working with both our infrastructure engineers and our product engineers. You’ll be a driver for positive change to Finly’s engineering culture, processes and technology.

Here are some examples of the projects in the different products:
Payment automation by building a deep integration with multiple banking systems:

• Governance frameworks with policy controlled workflows.
• Core finance document management system.
• Automating reconciliation of transactions across business
• Collaboration tools among finance, vendors & employees.
• Continuous ETL for integrating with CRMs like Salesforce & Accounting Systems like SAP.

WITHIN 1 MONTH, YOU'LL

• Complete Finly’s new-hire training week, and learn Accounts Payable
• Processes & the various partners we work with to make Finly happen.
• Investigate, solve and release a bug fix to production. In order to do this you will ramp up on Finly’s engineering stack by pair-programming with your teammates and attending engineering training sessions designed and presented by the team.
• Meet with cross-functional peers around the company to learn how the product functions.
• Complete your engineering starter project and deploy your first changes to production.

WITHIN 3 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute reliably ship full features to customers.
• Own major product areas and take features from mock to deploy.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major features and initiatives.

WITHIN 6 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Move to new product vertical & initiative and start designing and architecting scalable systems as per the requirements discussed with Product Manager.
• Have made a visible impact on the product for all the users of Finly.
• Work closely with your team to remove roadblocks, educate on best practices and improve how we work.
• Be comfortable navigating most of our stack and infrastructure
• Be responsible for the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new features
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, as a way to influence team growth and how our values inform our culture

WITHIN 12 MONTHS, YOU'LL

• Individually contribute and lead teams to reliably ship full features to customers.
• Estimate technical scope and time to complete major products and initiatives.
• Define tools and standards for product engineering to measure performance impact of releases
• Help grow other engineers technically by mentoring, pairing and developing other learning opportunities
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define priorities and set delivery goals.

So in this role, you will work with the respective team’s product manager and other engineers in that team. You may work on the front-end or backend or both based on the requirement of the project.

Join us & have the authority and responsibility to make things happen!