
About GoofyTails
Goofy Tails is a 4 year old, Delhi-based, DTC e-commerce pet care company, having more than 300,000 customers through its product range of 200+ SKU’s. The team at Goofy Tails has a deep experience & expertise in designing, manufacturing & marketing innovative pet products - Fresh food & treats, Toys & Accessories.
GoofyTails recently secured a Seed fund from marquee investors and is looking to expand aggressively in all departments of the business.
Company Website: http://www.goofytails.com">www.goofytails.com
Who are we looking for?
A motivated and ambitious Full stack Shopify developer with strong focus on frontend, who would like to be a part of a high growth & funded startup’s growth journey. Ideally be a pet parent!
- CTC: 6 to 8 Lakhs (Onsite)
- Location: Okhla, New Delhi
- Role Type - Full Time
- Saturdays off
- 2 days a month work at home
- Employee health and accidental insurance
- Free Laptop upgrades
Roles and Responsibilities:
1) To continuously optimize, enhance & maintain our Shopify based e-commerce website - http://www.goofytails.com">www.goofytails.com
2) Working closely with our UI/UX designer to produce tight, forward-thinking, responsive and scalable front-end experiences
3) To alter pre – existing templates & themes
4) Manage/Create shopify Apps
4) To deliver optimized, fast loading, and super responsive website
5) Superb troubleshooting and debugging skill
6) Extend Shopify functionalities using storefront APIs, liquid programming, meta fields, etc
7) Manage existing Shopify theme and also create new theme if needed
7) Implementing SEO/CRO best practices in Shopify sites Creating responsive website designs
8) Constantly look for better ways to do things by keeping up to date with the latest developments in the industry
Technical Capabilities Required? (Must Have Skills)
For this position, you must have a minimum of 2 years of experience as a Shopify developer. But what is really essential is to have experience with complex implementations such as Ajax Cart, Product Quick View, Product Customizers, among others.
It is also necessary to understand advanced Shopify concepts such as alternation of layouts and templates, product attributes, cart properties, and a deep understanding of the limitations and possibilities of Shopify objects.
Ruby on Rails / Shopify Front End
Good Knowledge of HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS3, and Javascript (including JQuery framework)
Good knowledge in AJAX
Good Knowledge of Apache / PHP / MySQL
Good Knowledge of Postgres SQL (not mandatory)
- Thorough expertise in developing responsive layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices
- Knowledge of speed optimization of Shopify stores
- Expertise in Shopify Liquid template language,Shopify Admin/Storefront
APIs,Meta-fields,RESTAPIs
- Working knowledge in Custom Shopify App development
- Good expertise in Shopify Developer Platform & Shopify Theme Development
- Knowledge in data migration and synchronization between Shopify instances & configurations
- Experience with code version/ branching tools like Git/SVN
- Usage of theme-kit or similar code push methodology experience
- knowledge of performance Improvement best practices
- Know how to write flawless and structured CSS
- Know how to layout HTML optimized for SEO and accessibility
Good to have skills
- Knowledge in other ecommerce platforms like Magento, woo commerce, Big Commerce will be preferred
Experience with React or Knockout.js is a plus

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Roles and Responsibilities
- Utilize your professional software development experience to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code in Ruby on Rails
- Ensure the code you write is defect-free and meets our product requirements
- Demonstrate strong debugging skills to identify and resolve issues promptly
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement new features and enhancements
- Contribute to the planning and execution of CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions
- Operate with minimal technical guidance, demonstrating your ability to take ownership of projects and deliver results
Requirement
- 10+ years of professional software development experience with Ruby on Rails
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
- Deep understanding of software development best practices, design patterns and architecture of any Rails application Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and GitHub
- Exceptional problem-solving and debugging skills
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
- Strong communication skills
- Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision
- Immediate joiners are preferred
We have divided this into the following two sections
#1 Working on features as a backend or front-end engineer (roughly 50% of the time)
Some of the responsibilities here will be:
- Depending on your skills you will be contributing to the codebase as a front-end or
backend developer
- You will be responsible to understand specifications created by the business division,
clarify on it, design and develop according to the specifications using ruby on rails or
react JS.
- Review code of other engineers
- Deploy and maintain production applications
- Work on fixing bugs
- Work on fixing technical debt
#2 Assistance in Development management
- communication with stakeholders (Development unit, Business Unit)
- Help in managing timeline, resource allocation, development plan, participate in
weekly product meetings along with the VP of Engineering
- Help to convert and discuss business specifications with engineers in English
- Communicate task progress to the business division promptly
- Work closely with the VP of Engineering on getting a strategy map created and
execution of the same
- Help in the hiring process
- Help in QA and release management
Our technology stack is:
● React for client applications
● Ruby on Rails as a Back End API
● PostgreSQL database
● Elasticsearch
● Amazon Web Services
● Stripe for payment handling
● Github for version control
● Slack for communication
● Figma for design
● Confluence and JIRA
Requirements
● At least 3 years of industry experience in software development
● At least 2 years of experience in working on Ruby on Rails projects or React
JS
● Strong communication skills in both English and Japanese
- Improving customer experience, not only for borrowers, but also other partners on the platform.
- Ensure seamless integration with data/ service providers and lending partners.
- When not doing any of above, write tests to prevent any regressions.
- Full-stack development experience.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails.
- Self-starter: Someone who can develop independently.
- Passionate about problem solving, ability to see the big picture.
- Realizes the value of 80-20
- Regular participation on Codechef, Topcoder etc. ( If yes, please cite your rank and pass on a link to your profile! )
- Prior experience at a bank / fin-tech / non-banking financial player in a technical role.
Role & Responsibilities
- A Proven work experience as a Ruby on Rails developer with good understanding of Java script, jQuery, HTML, CSS. The individual will need to be hands on with development, performance optimisation, secure development process, usability, and coding standards of the product.
- Strong ROR development experience and follows best practices (test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring, and code standards).
- Should have a mix of excellent reasoning ability to document, develop and test software with the commitment to excellence and defect free product before being deployed.
- Should be able to work closely with all stakeholders to investigate, fix, optimise, test, and deploy high quality solutions.
- Should have hands on understanding of technical design, implementation, and maintenance of technical initiatives towards improving and scaling of products.
- Self-motivated and should rapidly incorporate new requirements and deliver successfully by self.
- Effectively communicates with peers and stakeholders, gathers and clarify requirements from technical & functional aspect.
- Follows software development process; consistently innovates processes to improve individual and team productivity and quality.
- Strong Analytical, Problem Solving Skills and participates in all activities with urgency, should be result oriented and with strong work ethic.
- Experience with Agile development lifecycle with excellent understanding of feature estimation and ability to communicate issues and risks that may impact timelines or resources.
Desired Candidate Profile
- 4+ years of IT experience.
- At least 4 years commercial web development experience.
- At least 3 years of Ruby on Rails commercial development experience.
- Familiarity with Relational and Non Relation Databases ( Postgres, Mysql, MongoDb)
- REST API development.
- Familiarity with In Memory Database ( Redis, Memcache )
- Web development - HTML, HTML5 JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, jQuery, http, REST.
- AGILE/SCRUM development Experience.
- Development practices - Rails test framework / TDD / BDD, Domain Driven Design, SOLID, refactoring, OOP design patterns
- Expertise in version control system ( GIT )
- Candidate need to be comfortable dabbling with some basic infrastructure management on AWS.
- Familiarity with ( React, Vue ) is a plus.








