Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails

Description

Our Engineering team is at the heart of Sarvika’s ability to deliver enterprise-grade digital

products and experiences. As React specialists, they build performant, scalable, and

secure web applications that empower businesses to innovate and grow faster. By

combining technical excellence with relentless collaboration, our engineers solve complex

challenges, streamline processes, and bring ideas to life with speed and precision.

Engineers in this role actively contribute to Sarvika’s component libraries and design

system accelerators, ensuring code and design remain in sync across multiple domains.

They work on enterprise-scale solutions, including headless and composable commerce,

complex integrations, and next-generation mobile applications.

Here’s what you should know if you want to be a React Developer at Sarvika.

Requirements

The ideal person

● Strong portfolio or GitHub demonstrating impactful React projects.

● Experience leading or significantly contributing to all stages of the software

development lifecycle.

● Deep understanding of component-based architecture, state management, and

modern JavaScript/TypeScript practices.

● Proven hands-on experience with React, TypeScript, and Next.js.

● Excellent problem-solving and communication skills to clearly articulate technical

decisions.

● Commitment to writing clean, testable, and maintainable code.

● Proven ability to work in Agile teams, contributing to strategies that align with

business and user goals.

Desirable Skills

● Strong knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6+, and functional programming

principles.

● Familiarity with major libraries and frameworks (Redux, React Query, etc.).

● Experience integrating RESTful APIs and GraphQL into front-end applications.

● Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive development best

practices.

● Experience with automated testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress) and QA

collaboration.

● Solid grasp of modern front-end tooling: Vite, Babel, ESLint, Prettier.

● Experience collaborating with designers and product managers to refine

● requirements and deliver exceptional user experiences.

● Knowledge of design systems and component libraries, with ability to extend or

contribute to them.

● Proficiency with tools like Git, Jira, Confluence, and GitHub/GitLab workflows.

● Ability to mentor junior engineers, foster technical excellence, and promote best

practices.

● Passion for staying current with emerging front-end and mobile technologies.

● Experience with React Native and cross-platform mobile development.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop and maintain mobile applications using React Native.

2. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

3. Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

4. Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.

5. Troubleshoot and debug issues, and optimize performance for a seamless user experience.

6. Stay updated on emerging trends and technologies in mobile development.

Requirements:

1. Proven experience as a React Native Developer.

2. Strong proficiency in JavaScript and React.

3. Familiarity with native build tools, like Xcode, Android Studio.

4. Experience with third-party libraries and APIs.

5. Understanding of state management (e.g., Redux) in mobile applications.

6. Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.

7. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

8. Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team.

• Work closely with design, product management, and front-end teams to create REST APIs using NestJS
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Work on the implementation of security and data protection
• Review and optimize the app usage by monitoring key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively

• 1+ years of experience in NodeJS-based frameworks like NestJS, and microservices-based architecture is a bonus.
• Understanding of OOPS concepts, persistence, threading, queuing, and caching.
• Thorough knowledge of designing, implementing and scaling relational and document-based databases
• A love for systems and an ability to think through and plan for their life cycles, edge cases, interactions, and failure modes
• First principles thinking, Excellent problem-solving ability
• A good all-rounder with a can-do, startup mentality

• Experience with ReactJS
• Cloud deployment and scaling experience

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.

Key responsibilities

Write simple, understandable, testable, and efficient code with focus on solid technical stability and performance.

Drive technical improvement by applying software craftsmanship in everyday work as well as by identifying and executing larger refactoring/improvement initiatives.

Contribute in implementation of complex features and design work within the team.

Being part of cross team technical initiatives

Participate in and contribute to the team's Agile practices.

Take responsibility in maintaining high engineering standards, commitment to the product and respect and attitude towards others.

Skills:

Hands-on experience with modern Ruby on Rails practices and development. (1-2 years)

Experience with writing clean, maintainable and scalable code

Good awareness of the Ruby on Rails ecosystems and being in touch with the latest developments in this area

Experience in developing backend APIs/services, micro-service architecture.

Have a clear understanding of database technologies

Awareness/experience with testing methodologies like RSpec

A high-performance mindset to deliver good quality code and also an understanding of the product

Openness with working in a culture of inclusiveness and individual responsibility and experience with Agile methodologies.

Good communication skills – good knowledge of English, both written and oral

Good to have:

Working knowledge of react or other JS based frameworks.

Hands on experience with python, nodeJS, mongo db