Technical Lead - ROR

• 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

Numerator is a data and technology company reinventing market research. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Numerator has 1,600 employees worldwide. The company blends proprietary data with advanced technology to create unique insights for the market research industry that has been slow to change.  The majority of Fortune 100 companies are Numerator clients. 

Job Description

What We Do and How?

We are a market research company, revolutionizing how it's done! We mix fast paced development and unique approaches to bring best practices and strategy to our technology. Our tech stack is deep, leveraging several languages and frameworks including Python, C#, Java, Kotlin, React, Angular, and Django among others. Our engineering hurdles sit at the intersection of technologies ranging from mobile, computer vision and crowdsourcing, to machine learning and big data analytics.

Our Team

From San Francisco to Chicago to Ottawa, our R&D team is comprised of talented individuals spanning across a robust tech stack. The R&D team is comprised of product, data analytics, engineers across Front End, Back End, DevOps, Business Intelligence, ETL, Data Science, Mobile Apps, and much more. Across these different groups we work towards one common goal: To build products into efficient and seamless user experiences that help our clients succeed.

About the Role

We’re looking for a well-rounded and passionate Full Stack Software Developer to join our team in creating an amazing client experience. If you’re interested in working on all layers of a system from developing new UI controls to creating flexible and scalable data architectures with the latest technologies and tools then Numerator is for you.

This person should be self-motivated. We’re not big on constant oversight and micromanagement. We’re looking for software engineers that can take a task, get clarity as needed, and run with it to produce well-designed quality code. You need to love to code and care about quality and design.

We understand that iteration is important to good design and development. We need a person who can take iterative steps toward delivering a solution. Working with the business the entire way to stay on target and deliver amazing results.

Skills & Requirements

• Minimum 4+ years of relevant experience in Ruby
• Demonstrated experience working on application development projects and test-driven development
• A strong engineer with excellent Ruby experience working with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with Javascript and related frameworks -- Backbone, Angular, React, etc
• Experience with SQL databases – Elasticsearch is a plus
• Experience with REST services and API design
• Knowledge of unit & integration testing
• Knowledge of agile development process
• Experience with version control systems (Git, Subversion etc.)

Having experience in any of the following would be a valuable asset:

•  Experience working with AWS
• Experience working with Node.js
• Basic understanding of the HTTP protocol
• Knowledge of business rules engines
• Programming experience on Unix based infrastructure

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

• 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

•  Software Architecture and Design.

•  Development and Testing.

•  Deployments and Operations.

Roles & Responsibilities :

We are looking for Senior Software Developer (Elixir/ROR) who have past experience in Elixir or Erlang.

• Design and write with the cutting edge Elixir/ ROR language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the company's range of products.
• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale distributed systems.

Qualifications :

We are looking for developers with 5+ years of experience of which 1-2 yrs of past work experience with ROR / Elixir or Erlang. In terms of Elixir we expect the following:

• You should be aware of idiomatic programming in Elixir, and should have good awareness of concepts such as pattern matching, recursion, and behaviors.
• You should be well versed with concurrency and processes in Elixir. 
• You should be hands on with Genservers, Tasks, Agents, Supervisors, and other OTP concepts in Elixir.
• Plus points if you have worked with data processing libraries such as Genstage, Flow and Broadway.
• 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• You should have good experience working with relational and non-relational databases. We use Postgres and Cassandra.
• Good to have but not mandatory working experience with caching tools such as Redis, Queue mechanism setup with RabbitMQ.
• Good knowledge of version management with Git.
• Awareness of TDD. 
• CI/CD knowledge would be a huge advantage.
• Will to design and maintain large scale distributed systems.
• Past experience in building complex applications, either by yourself, or as part of a larger team
• Desire (obsessive?) for maintainability.
• Experience of working with cross-functional remote teams in an Agile software development framework.
• Experience in designing APIs with proper documentation.
• Ability to write useful and maintainable tests.
• Good understanding of the common architectural patterns and design principles.
• Solid understanding of how modern web applications work.
• (Nice to have) Being an active member of the Elixir community (writing blog posts, giving presentations in meetups, etc).
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English to engage a variety of large audiences, internally and externally.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in any relevant discipline.

• Work with product owners, architects, developers, testers, and other stakeholders in the client's organization and in the company to build and maintain software solutions
• Get specifications/wireframes/ mock-ups and translate them into scalable, high-performance, robust web apps!
• Responsible to write and maintain clean, well-written code, as per the best practices.
• Very comfortable with daily stand-up with clients, update daily work progress via Project Management systems, voice/video calls, online collaboration using screen-sharing tools.
• Exposure/experience in agile development practices

Desired Qualification, Skills, and Experience

• Education: B.E. / B.Tech.

Mandatory Skills:

• Expert level skills in OOPS concepts
• Excellent in Ruby, metaprogramming.
• Excellent knowledge of Rails 4.x+
• Experience in using Rails Engine.
• Full-stack web development expertise (HTML, Javascript, CSS/Less, React, Redux)
• Good experience with active accounts on Git, Github/Bitbucket, or similar SCM tools.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills [Client side, Server side, Database]
• Knowledge and skills in static code analysis and performance management tools [Client side, Server side, Database]
• Databases: Expert level skills in one or more of MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Exposure to Release, Build Management, Deployment steps, and methodologies.

Nice to have Skills:

• MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, RSpec, Enzyme, Jest
• Experience:2-4 year

• 3+ years of experience with Ruby On Rails.
• Strong Project & Time Management Skills, along with the ability to apply these skills while working independently, or as part of a team.
• Knowledge of blockchain technology, smart contracts and cryptocurrency will be an added advantage
• Experience in fintech domain will be another added advantage
• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.

we are looking to add new talent to our ruby on rails team. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the server-side logic for the central database, testing performance, troubleshooting, and integrating front-end elements into the application.

Job specifications-

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Understanding of ruby on rails as well as libraries
• Ability to write clear, readable ruby codes.
• Problem-solving capabilities.
• Understanding of code versioning tools like- Git
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including- HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
• Familiarity with testing tools.