
Software Developer - Ruby on Rails
at With a leading transport & Logistics company
Backend Developer
Technical Overview
* You will be expected to develop and maintain large-scale complex backend web applications.
* You will be expected to rapidly learn and apply relevant new technologies.
* You will be having a high level of interaction with business and product stakeholders.
* You will be working on the entire web application stack, which includes:
- Web server hosting
- RESTful / RPC communication
- Message brokering
- Backend application layer, which includes the service and domain layers
- Data layer for persistence or caching
* You will be participating in an agile software development cycle, which includes:
- Design
- Development
- Code Review
- Unit and Integration Testing
- Deployment
* You will be exposed to the following technologies:
- Web application frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, Vert.x, AIOHTTP, AWS Lambda
- Languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Python
- Datastores: PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, Amazon Redshift
- Communication: HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
- Server Management: Amazon ECS, Docker
Product Overview
* You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers.
* Product sectors include:
- Growth: You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry best driver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models.
- Lifecycle Management: Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
- Transaction Experience: You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
- Fulfilment: As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
- Enterprise Solutions: You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimization tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.
Qualification Prerequisites
- Colleges: All NITs, IIITs and IITs, BITS, PEC, VIT, PESIT, DTU and Indraprastha University
- CGPA: >= 7.5

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About Us:
We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.
We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.
About The Role:
Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means a million people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. This is where you come in — to help us forge a performant and reliable path forward to the future.
What You'll Achieve:
- Write clean, secure, tested, and documented code.
- Design & enhance the Notion platform with new capabilities, as and when the need arises.
- Contribute to monitoring & scaling the architecture of the platform and the infrastructure.
- Write technical documentation, and contribute to determining internal processes.
- Contribute to recruiting of new backend employees
Skills You'll Need to Bring:
- 6+ years of experience building scalable platforms.
- Good understanding of database (Relational Or Nosql) internals like transactions, indexes. Experience in schema design.
- 2+ years of experience working on the AWS platform, and acquaintance with technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, Elastic Load Balancer.
- Good understanding of docker internals.
- Good communication skills, good leadership skills, attention to detail, a sound understanding of algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
Nice to Haves:
- You're proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Memcached, Postgres, Docker, and Elasticsearch.
- You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work.
- You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Notion.
Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.
- Experience with Django/Flask Framworks
- Worked on web app and mobile app
- Understanding of DevOps tools - Jekins/Kubernetes/Azure/AWS/Docker will be a plus
Must-Have:
- Core Java (Must be good in Core Java concepts, Java programming practices, Clean coding.)
- Spring Framework(Must have working experience in Spring Core)
- Any SQL framework(hands-on working experience in any of these: Hibernate/JPA/MyBatis/Spring Data/Others)
- Hands-on experience in REST API
- Hands-on experienceSQL Database(any of the databases: Oracle/MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLServer)
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- Maven or Gradle (Must have working experience in building Java projects using maven or Gradle.)
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- Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
- Manage interactions with designers, testers, and other developers
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- 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
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Educational Qualification - B.E / B.Tech, MCA, M.Tech, or any equivalent IT graduation or post-graduation
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- J2EE - Sprint Boot Microservices.
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