Sr. Backend Developer

About us

Have you ever felt the need to see the direct impact of what you do? Then consider this:
Currently, there are 70+ million Small and Medium Enterprises in India. And they need all the help to succeed against the continuous onslaught of much larger businesses.
Imagine a jewellery shop owner in Ghatkopar Mumbai. He may be procuring his goods that are to be sold in the shop from a fixed set of vendors - some his relatives, some that people have recommended and some that came and pitched to him. He may not have ever seen the kind of designs and products that a supplier from Mysore can offer. Or the credit terms that another supplier from Surat can offer. Putting him on a platform where he can easily browse products and build new business relationships is a life-changing proposition for him.
We believe that technology should be accessible and usable for these SMEs so that they can grow and simplify their business, and compete in a fair field.
If making the lives of businesses in India and the world simpler excites you, then this is the
perfect opportunity!
You will be solving challenging problems, defining your own charter and be the master of your own growth. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
We have more than 170k businesses on our platform already with great engagement numbers. We are backed by the top founders and VCs in the country(Titan Capital, FirstCheque).

We are set to grow even faster in the future.
Join us if you want to be a part of a fast-paced team.


Job Description

This is a remote position.

We’re in search of a senior back-end engineer that specializes in ROR with excellent
knowledge of core concepts of backend engineering.

Requirements

Must-haves:
1. You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
2. Should have excellent command over ruby on rails with a minimum experience of 2 years.
3. Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
4. Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
5. Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
6. Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
7. Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
8. Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
9. Ability to pick and work on adjacent technologies if and when required (Eg: If the
best performance monitoring solution needs a basic firebase setup, that should
not be a blocker for you to go ahead and do so)
10.Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
11. You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Have your own
laptop, good internet connection, availability on phone are required)

Good to have

1. App Development experience
2. Experience in Test Driven Development
3. Ability to tell Product what creates better User Experience, ability to tell frontend
what API responses will help the user get a faster load time
4. Inquisitiveness to understand the system as a whole, and not only be stuck to your domain of expertise (Eg: Figure out why excessive APIs calls are being made, brainstorm with Product and Frontend team to reduce the same without harming the UX )
5. Experience in working on a Social Media Product
6. Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
7. Data-Driven Approach to monitoring

Benefits
1. Work timings - You are the master of your time
2. Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't
need to explain yourself to us
3. Industry standard salary

Ruby on Rails Developer Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing new web applications.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
• Writing and maintaining reliable Ruby code.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Creating back-end components.
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs.
• Integrating user-facing elements designed by the front-end team.
• Connecting applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.

Ruby on Rails Developer Requirements:

• 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.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial.
• Experience with AngularJS or BackboneJS.
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim and Liquid.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

• 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

• Part of the core team responsible for powering the various apps and moving parts of the product
• Design, build and own key technology decisions and implementations
• Wear multiple hats - that of an architect, developer, or product owner
• Collaborate with other team members to find optimal solutions and engineering workarounds based on resource/time constraints
• Communicate development status and features to the rest of the team members
• Manage interactions with designers, testers, and other developers

Required Skills :

• 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

 

 

Work as a member of a team responsible for developing a large-scale, highly available and fault-tolerant SaaS based Leasing & Asset management solution in the commercial real estate space in accordance with established processes. You will apply your knowledge of building scalable, distributed applications and have the opportunity to work with technologies & frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, ReactJS, Heroku, AWS, Postgres DB​

 

Essential Functions include but are not limited to the following. 

 

You will be expected to:​

• Contribute to all phases in the software lifecycle – requirements analysis, solution design, development, and deployment
• Maintain high quality standards for the work undertaken and be responsible for the quality of deliverables.
• Ensure assigned projects are developed in accordance with established engineering processes, adhering to scope, schedule constraints and agile project plans
• Guide/mentor the less experienced team members
• Participate in code reviews
• Work effectively as part of a distributed team
• Document the features worked by him/her

Key technical expertise areas expected for this role:

• Strong programming skills in Ruby with clear understanding of Object-Oriented and Functional programming. 
• Experience working with Ruby on Rails framework
• Experience on REST API Programming preferably based on a Microservices Architecture
• Good Understanding of Databases (Postgres) and proficiency in database schema designing & writing efficient SQL Queries. 
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrable ability to learn new programming languages and frameworks quickly
• Experience with distributed systems with specific focus on security and scalability
• Experience with modern cloud technologies such as AWS

 Additional areas that would add value:

• Experience working with Cloud Service providers & platforms like AWS, Heroku 
• Strong understanding of Design Patterns & their application in system design
• Test Driven & Behavior Driven Development
• Automated Unit/Integration testing
• Using DevOps & Infrastructure tooling such as GoCD/Jenkins, Git
• Frontend web development with JavaScript frameworks like React
• Experience working on  projects, preferably in the real estate domain
• Experience working with Virtualization and Containerization technologies including Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum/Kanban methodologies
• Experience working with Linux and Shell scripting

Education: 

• Bachelors or Master’s in Computer Science or related fields

Alien Brains is a research lab where we guide students on how to go about different fields in Computer Science, if they are to make career in it. We are also developing some products related to the above problem statement and thus need developers who can match with our vision, work alongside us on the products, and also on the same time guide the youngsters in colleges.

JD :- Proficiency in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS/ SASS etc.- Proficiency in at least two frame works Yii, Laravel, CI, Ruby on Rails.- Candidate must have hands of experience in web application full life cycle application Development project.- Candidate must have 2+ years of experience of developing web services in at least two formats XML, cXML, SOAP, JSON/ Rest APIs.- Candidate must have experience of hosting web application on Shared hosting or Cloud like AWS, Azure etc.- Candidate must have knowledge of working on Source control like GitHub, Team foundation etc.- Candidate must be good on core apps framework like MVC/ architecture design- Having experience of project documentation belongs to entire SDLC.- Candidate must have experience of leading team- Candidate must have experience interaction with international (US) clients- Having experience of problem solving and decision making- Excellent communication skills- Should have very good attitude and Self-motivation- Provides encouragement to team members, including communicating team goals- Answers team member questions, helps with team member problems, and oversees team member work for quality and guideline compliance- Communicates deadlines and goals to team members- Conducts team meetings to update members on best practices and continuing expectations

We are looking for exceptional and ambitious developers who enjoy working both on front-end (Angular2+ or React) and back-end (either in one of these Python, Ruby on Rails or Node.js) development. This role is ideal for somebody who is passionate about building great web applications and wants to use their skills to have a real production impact. We are looking for a developer who loves being part of a team but is also self-motivated and likes the idea of pushing his/her own ideas. As a full-stack developer in Faasos tech team, you will be working on developing and improving features built primarily in React or Angular 2+ with appropriate backend technology. You will be creating production grade code and will have the opportunity to implement solutions designed to handle high levels of traffic. You will need to be self driven and eager to learn new technologies and programming languages. Skills & Requirements - A love of what you do - Ability to work independently; accountable for your own actions and able to act with both urgency and integrity. - Experience developing for the web with JavaScript, TypeScript and with the most common web framework such as Angular 2+, React - Experience using MySQL, Redis, AWS, Elasticsearch is a plus. - Familiarity with distributed revision control systems such as Git. - Familiarity with DevOps culture and continuous integration tools

Ruby on Rails architecture best practices  ● Strong OOP knowledge in Ruby.  ● Good Knowledge on Angular or React JS  ● Asynchronous Networking in Ruby   ● Designing RESTFul HTTP APIs using JSON-Schema or JSON API (​jsonapi.org​).  ● Ability to architect and develop API only backend  ● Experience in using Active Record Serializer  ● Understanding O-Auth2 or JWT (Json Web Token) authentication mechanisms.  ● How to use RSpec  ● Rails Security Best Practices  ● PostgreSQL and Rails.  ● SQL concepts like Joins, Relationships etc.  ● Understanding DB Partition strategies.  ● Knowledge about refactoring ActiveRecord Models (read this - “7 Patterns to Refactor Fat  ActiveRecord Models”).  ● Understanding scaling strategies for a high-traffic Rails applications (2 million+ requests a  day).  ● Background Job processing using Redis and Sidekiq  ● Experience in using Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools.  ● Writing automated Deployment Scripts using Capistrano, Ansible etc.  ● Sending emails in Rails  ● Knowledge in Linux and Git is mandatory