
- 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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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.
• Should have a B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA in CS / IT / IS from premier college with 6+
years of experience in software development.
• Strong OOPS and OOD Fundamentals.
• E-commerce domain experience of 2-3 Years is mandatory.
• Good Coding, Problem Solving Skills, algorithms and data structures.
• Knowledge of My SQL database or any other RDBMS with a good understanding of
SQL language.
• Prior experience in web technologies is a plus.
• Ability to work on UNIX / Linux platform.
• Good Communication & Interpersonal Skills.
Job Description :
• You will be involved in all phases of development : architecture & design,
prototyping, implementation & testing, analysis & documentation, deployment.
• Capable of independent full systems design, including requirements gathering,
specifications, and coding.
• Knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and
engineering best practices.
• Take the product/feature idea from the conceptualization phase to delivery with all
the relevant high-quality artifacts during the cycle.
• Flexibility and collaboration, coupled with strong object-oriented design & software
development skills are keys to success in this position.
This is a remote position.
- Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and tools to power customers, engineers, and operations
- Own functionality and scalability features by taking responsibility from inception to post-deployment.
- Be responsible for full software development life-cycle - design, development, testing, operating in production
- Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases, infrastructure, and processes you will encounter.
- Serve as technical lead, contributing to and directing the execution of complex projects with other engineers
- Mentor software engineers and set the standard for the next generation of Finly engineers
- Proactively identify and prioritize improvements to the team's processes, codebases and best practices
Requirements
- 3 to 6 years' experience creating libraries and designing scale-able backend systems
- Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with software engineering development cycles
- Experience working with backend programming languages (Ruby, Python)
- Ability to hold yourself and the team to high standards
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
- Ability to provide in-depth evaluation of multiple technical directions and determine trade-offs of each
- Strong propensity to make data-driven decisions on technical architecture and project prioritization
- Experience collaborating with experts in product, design, and operations.
- Experience driving initiatives at a broader level across an organization or company
- Strong writing skills
- Proactive approach
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.
About the company:
💰 Early-stage, funded, growing, growing fast, profitable!
🎯 Mission Driven: To help small & large Indian businesses grow faster
Min. Experience: 3+ years in Full Stack Development
Skillset:
- You primarily identify as a full-stack engineer and are comfortable working on the server-side as well as UI side.
- You have shipped code to production recently and regularly
- You are driven and care about doing a good job and improving your craft.
- You have high integrity, and you are reliable
- You have excellent coding, programming, and problem-solving skills.
- You have experience with implementing modern architectural patterns.
- You have good debugging skills and coding practices
- You are fluent in using the tools of the trade: Editors, Git, Command line, Slack, Jira
- You should have relevant experience in the Ruby on Rails stack.
- You have experience with multiple ORMs
- You have experience in Postgres / MySQL
- You have experience in ReactJS
What you can expect from us:
- Mentorship, growth, great work culture
- We are a people-first team. Mentorship and continuous improvement are a part of the team’s DNA
- We believe in solving problems from first principles
- A good balance between deep focussed work and collaborative work, we won't bother you with unnecessary meetings
What we ask from you:
- Bring your software engineering — both individual brilliance and collaborative skills.
- Bring your good nature — we're building a team that supports each other.
- Be vested or interested in the company vision
- Take ownership of your product
- Should be capable of handling one complete product end-to-end - with minimal oversight
Bonus:
- If you have DevOps expertise: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
- If you have amazing frontend skills
- If you have created or contributed to an open-source component or library, we will love to see the code
- If you have given a talk or spoken in a meetup/conference
- If you have a hobby project, we will love to hear about it
- If you have previously worked in startups
Experience: 5+ Years
An Architect is a hands-on, talented, innovative, and practical individual with functional experience to design, implement and support the delivery of core products and product components.
- Capable of working under minimal direction and exercising considerable latitude, they will provide technical expertise in developing solutions to complex software engineering problems, which require frequent use of ingenuity and creativity.
- Experienced in designing application framework solutions, performing architectural analysis, and identifying issues and provide solutions for the business problems.
- Sound functional knowledge of application architecture service architecture, code modularity, data synchronisation, customisable workflow management, partner application integration and API developer frameworks.
- Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and development of new architecture and major functional upgrades for the most advanced capabilities
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, designers, and developers.
- Engage cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support, and Operations, to ensure the success of overall software development, implementation, and deployment.
- Requirements:
Ideal candidate should have
- 7+ years of system implementation experience
- Experience with any of the following languages like Java / Nodejs / ROR / Python
- Expertise in micro service / Data modelling / AWS / Messaging
- Expertise in building scalable & reliable systems
- Good Experience in working with technologies like AWS, Redis,
- Experience in messaging systems like SQS/RabbitMQ
- Good knowledge of caching, Databases, distributed systems.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Good experience with Devops
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








