Sr. Ruby on Rails

Procol is India's fastest-growing procurement technology company.

Founded in 2018, Procol's solutions have been securely deployed at many $1B+ global companies helping procurement teams reduce costs, digitize procurements, improve compliance by replacing emails and excel workflows with the world's most easy-to-use and secure e-sourcing platform managing a spend of ₹5000 Cr+. Procol is rated 4.9/5 ⭐️ by trusted enterprises on G2 and has been featured by Forbes.

We're a team of ex-Google New York, Zomato, OYO who've worked at high-impact, growth companies and believe that we're on the journey of building one. Backed by investors like Blume Ventures, Sequoia Surge, Beenext, and Rainmatter.

Hiring Technical Lead

You will scale and lead Procol’s engineering teams. You’ll be instrumental in driving the product vision and will be responsible for hiring, developing and leading engineers to seamlessly execute our technical roadmap.

You come from experience but are not as psyched with your current pursuits and believe that there’s something more important to be done with your time.  If you are a hustler who likes to take challenges and want to join a team of like-minded enthusiastic individuals then we want you on-board.

What you’ll bring

• You have 4+ years of experience with system architecture and have built scalable software infrastructure.
• You are a hands-on programmer and prefer to spend 20-30% of your time writing production grade code with your team.
• You have sound understanding of software engineering principles, both for code and for people
• You have experience of leading engineering teams. 
• You are emphatic and highly customer obsessed.
• You have an eye for great products and can work effectively with product managers, engineers and designers to build them.

What you'll do

• Build, scale, develop and manage teams that are collaborative, inclusive, and respectful of each other.
• Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact. 
• Manage the processes necessary to operate the engineering teams effectively.
• Drive and contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives.
• Plan and prioritize short term and long term engineering goals and guide teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Focus on developing their careers, and assign them to projects suitable to their skill levels, work styles, and professional goals.
• Own your team’s deliverables and ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available products that delight our customers.
• Support the engineering and product teams in achieving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and ease-of-use.

Why you'll love Procol

• Learn and grow fast with a growing startup which impacts millions of businesses
• Work closely with the founding team and become a part of building a successful company
• Openly collaborate with few of India’s most talented folks, who will challenge you every day
• Industry competitive salary and benefits

• Get advance salaries every month
• Employee health insurance covered by us
• Flexible working hours

Procol is an equal opportunity employer and we believe diversity is key to our success.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer / Information Science (BE / BTech) or Master’s in Computer Applications (MCA) Experience:
• Two to five years general software engineering experience
• Experience in web development using the Ruby on Rails web application framework
• At least two years of Ruby on Rails programming experience
• Thorough understanding of the philosophy and design of Ruby on Rails
• Desktop publishing skills: HTML5, xHTML, CSS

Knowledge of:

• JavaScript and JavaScript libraries: jQuery, Plugins etc.
• Unix and Linux systems
• Relational databases: SQL, etc.
• Frameworks: Active record, etc.
• Servers: Nginx, Mongrel, Webrick
• Performance management using New Relic, Web Page Test tools
• SEO rules, minification, rails asset pipelines
• REST APIs and their usage

Highly preferred experience:

• Ability to work with the Amazon EC2, S3, and EBS services
• NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Memcached, CouchDB
• Git, SVN
• Proactive and resourceful person who achieves tasks with minimal oversight
• Team player with the ability and desire to become an integral part of a fast-paced team
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in parallel

• A Bachelors or master’s degree in engineering.
• 2-4 years of experience in software product development.
• Excellent in Data structure, Algorithms & Problem-solving skills.
• Should be willing to code in Node.js/Java/Python/ROR/Golang
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules and that handles interaction between multiple components.
• Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and able to multi-task.
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment

Company profile

We are the pioneering player in the FinTech industry in India in the institutional credit space. We have created a one of a kind online marketplace for institutional credit ‘CredAvenue’, bringing together issuers and lenders, while also participating in the marketplace through their own balance sheet. Within a short span of two years, CredAvenue has gained immense traction and boasts of multiple clients across sectors, 120+ investors across multiple segments and a high volume of credit deal closures. To read about the latest numbers we have clocked, please visit http://www.credavenue.com">www.credavenue.com.

We are backed by two of the leading global Private Equity firms and have also been successful in attracting high quality talent from some of the leading companies and universities globally. With the fundamentals in place, we are now gearing up for our next phase of high growth, and we are further building up our team to take the company to the next level.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for full software life-cycle, system design and development of front-end & back-end systems
• Writing high-quality code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope
• Identify libraries and technologies worth experimentation
• Build innovative solutions from scratch and liaise with architects and engineers to build solutions
• Mentoring other team members

Required Skill

•  Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience
•  2-7 years of relevant hands-on software engineering experience doing software design and development
•  Proven experience of working on back-end web frameworks like RoR (preferable) or Python/Django or Node.js
•  Good command over at least one JavaScript frameworks like React.js, Vue.js or Angular
•  Excellent understanding of relational database structures, having knowledge of unstructured databases (NoSQL) will be an  added advantage
•  Expertise in object-oriented design, unit testing, integration testing, data structures, algorithms, scalable APIs, etc.
•  Knowledge of working on cloud technologies and exposure of AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, etc)
•  Work in a fast-paced environment and make pragmatic engineering decisions in a short amount of time
•  Experience with Agile Development and Scrum methodologies.

Work Environment Details

• An opportunity to play a formative role in an ambitious financial services marketplace spanning investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional finance, retail lending and asset management
• A journey that will challenge and reward you in a manner few others will