
- 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

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What you will be working on?
- Driving product implementation from conceptualisation to delivery. This would involve planning and breaking down projects, leading architectural discussions and decisions, building high quality documentation and architecture diagrams, and driving the execution end to end.
- Own the development practices, processes, and standards for your team
- Own the technical architecture, drive engineering design, and shoulder critical decisions
- Understand, prioritize and deliver the feature roadmap while chipping away at the technical debt
- Work effectively with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, developers, and QA
- Own the communication of the team’s progress and perception of the team itself
- Collaborate with the Support team to keep track of and triage technical issues and track them through to resolution
- Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to drive sourcing, screening, interviewing, and recruitment of the right talent for your team
- Continuously improve the productivity of your team by identifying investments in technology, process, and continuous delivery
- Own the morale of your team, unblock them at critical junctures, and break ties in a timely manner
- Own the careers of your team members, deliver regular and timely feedback, represent your team for annual reviews and reward your performers
- You will nurture and grow the team in order to deliver path-breaking solutions, as outlined above, for the business in the coming years
What we are looking for?
- 7+ years of total relevant experience with a minimum of one year of actively managing and owning the delivery of a high-performing engineering team.
- Bachelor's Degree in a technical field
- Ability to work in a very fast-paced environment with high degrees of vagueness.
- Excellent database knowledge and data modeling skills
- Excellent leadership skills to manage and mentor teams
- Experience designing and implementing distributed systems
- Superior management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience in delivering high-quality projects on time
- Track record of individual technical achievement
- Excellent command in CS fundamentals and in at least one interpreted language (PHP / Python / RoR)
- Experience developing software in a commercial software product development environment
- Experience leading teams that built software products for scale
- Excellent communication skills, open, collaborative, and proven team player
- Experience working with global customers and experience with agile processes and Serverless Architecture is a plus
Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- 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)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- 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
- 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 )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family
Job Description
This is a remote position.
Requirements
- You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
- Should have excellent command over designing systems with a minimum experience of 4 years.
- Should have experience with various database flavors and writing complex queries. We work with Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, TimescaleDB, and Redis.
- Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
- Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
- Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
- Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
- Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
- Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
- 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)
- Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
- You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Good internet connection and availability on phone is required)
- App Development experience
- Experience in Test Driven Development
- 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
- 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 )
- Experience in working on a Social Media Product
- Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
- Data-Driven Approach to monitoring
Benefits
- Work timings - You are the master of your time. However, with great freedom comes great responsibility. If you have committed something to the team, we expect that you will give it your best to make sure that commitment is done and is done on time.
- Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't need to explain yourself to us
- Health insurance for you and your family
Everyone at Simpl is an internal entrepreneur who is given a lot of bandwidth and resources to create the next breakthrough towards the long-term vision of “making money Simpl”. Our first product is a
payment platform that lets people buy instantly, anywhere online, and pay later. In the background, Simpl uses big data for credit underwriting, risk and fraud modeling, all without any paperwork, and enables Banks and Non-Bank Financial Companies to access a whole new consumer market.
Areas of work
Principals are involved in Architecture Direction and Alignment
1. Tracking and directing how the overall system architecture evolves.
2. Developing and identifying useful architecture patterns within our systems based on
industry know-how and our own operational and development experience.
3. Develop and manage an architecture decisions guidelines framework that will be useful to
make consistent, faster and reliable architecture and design decisions.
4. Documenting or making this information available to all engineers - new or old
5. Create mechanisms to audit and ensure architectural compliance across engineering teams
Internal Developer Community and Tech growth for teams
Create and nurture tech communities so that developers can
● gain more knowledge about the industry practices
● learn to express their knowledge, opinions and views
Quality
Monitor and improve the quality of our systems by helping with
1. Bug reduction
2. MTTR reduction
3. Ensuring better engineering practices around testing, tooling, monitoring and resilience.
Cost - Infra and application costs
Ensuring systems are run and maintained with frugality in mind without compromising on business and operational expectations.
Hiring
Help hire and mentor engineers at Simpl.
Partners at Work
Principals partner with team leads, product managers, infosec engineers and devops engineers, ensuring alignment in vision and execution, splitting time between different domains as they see fit.
Minimum Qualifications
● At least 8 years of software development experience
● Experience with technically leading projects and architecting high-traffic consumer-facing applications.
● A background in CS or relevant technical experience.
● Familiarity with languages like Go, Java, Ruby and Python.
● Familiarity with the AWS Stack.
We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
- Integration of data storage solutions (may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc. )
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
- Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant field.
- More than 3 years of experience in a ROR Developer (or similar role); experience in software development and infrastructure development is a plus
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec and Resque.
- Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
- Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Liquid, Slim, etc depending on your technology stack).
- Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors (such as Sass, based on project requirements).
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3
- Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful.
- A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code.
Expertise in Angular JS, Node JS, React JS.
- Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
- Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions
- Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time
- Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions
- Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them.
- Drives people to solve engineering challenges
- Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams
- Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and
internal/external clients as necessary.
- Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them
- Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards
- Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
- Must have experience in cloud computing
- Operates independently with almost no oversight
- Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the
team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership
- Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
- 7+ years of experience in product driven organization
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably








