Software Engineer - ROR

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.

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

•  Software Architecture and Design.

•  Development and Testing.

•  Deployments and Operations.

Roles & Responsibilities :

We are looking for Senior Software Developer (Elixir/ROR) who have past experience in Elixir or Erlang.

• Design and write with the cutting edge Elixir/ ROR language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the company's range of products.
• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale distributed systems.

Qualifications :

We are looking for developers with 5+ years of experience of which 1-2 yrs of past work experience with ROR / Elixir or Erlang. In terms of Elixir we expect the following:

• You should be aware of idiomatic programming in Elixir, and should have good awareness of concepts such as pattern matching, recursion, and behaviors.
• You should be well versed with concurrency and processes in Elixir. 
• You should be hands on with Genservers, Tasks, Agents, Supervisors, and other OTP concepts in Elixir.
• Plus points if you have worked with data processing libraries such as Genstage, Flow and Broadway.
• 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• You should have good experience working with relational and non-relational databases. We use Postgres and Cassandra.
• Good to have but not mandatory working experience with caching tools such as Redis, Queue mechanism setup with RabbitMQ.
• Good knowledge of version management with Git.
• Awareness of TDD. 
• CI/CD knowledge would be a huge advantage.
• Will to design and maintain large scale distributed systems.
• Past experience in building complex applications, either by yourself, or as part of a larger team
• Desire (obsessive?) for maintainability.
• Experience of working with cross-functional remote teams in an Agile software development framework.
• Experience in designing APIs with proper documentation.
• Ability to write useful and maintainable tests.
• Good understanding of the common architectural patterns and design principles.
• Solid understanding of how modern web applications work.
• (Nice to have) Being an active member of the Elixir community (writing blog posts, giving presentations in meetups, etc).
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English to engage a variety of large audiences, internally and externally.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in any relevant discipline.

Must haves 

• At least 3 years of professional programming experience in Ruby on Rails.
• Solid fundamentals with software development, systems, troubleshooting, and teamwork
• Strong testing habits, passionate towards unit testing and TDD. 
• Good understanding of RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL 
• Strong knowledge of git 
• Good understanding of data structures 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

Good to have 

• Experience with Javascript

Please find below the required skill set

Skillsets:

• Strong Experience in Ruby on Rails
• Solid understanding of Ruby principles and core concepts.
• Good understanding of Object Oriented Concepts and principles.
• Understanding of RESTful/ SOAP APIs.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, ReactJS and Bootstrap framework.
• Knowledge/ Experience in SQL and PL/SQL programming.
• Excellent communication Skill.

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