Technical Lead - ROR

· Write effective and scalable code in Ruby

· Build back-end components for web applications

· Test applications for performance, responsiveness, and security

· Review and debug junior developers’ code

· Integrate data storage and data processing solutions

· Build, install, and share gems and plugins

· Create automated test scripts

· Improve and maintain applications after deployment

· Coordinate with team members who work on different layers of infrastructure

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.

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

• Should be able to analyse requirements, design solutions, write code, debug code and modify existing software enhancements or develop new product software.
• Should be able mentor junior developers to perform their tasks more effectively and efficiently.
• Should be able to perform executions against project plans and meet delivery commitments.
• Should have good experience in source control, unit testing, code verification, documentation, automated build, continuous integration, metrics, and code reviews.
• May interact with product specialists / Project Managers / Product Owners to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications and to give status feedback.
• Should be able to work in an Agile Development Environment using SCRUM methodology.
• Should be able to communicate with other teams and stakeholders to achieve the given goal.
• Should be able to participate in the hiring processes.