Technical lead (ROR)

About us

Have you ever felt the need to see the direct impact of what you do? Then consider this:
Currently, there are 70+ million Small and Medium Enterprises in India. And they need all the help to succeed against the continuous onslaught of much larger businesses.
Imagine a jewellery shop owner in Ghatkopar Mumbai. He may be procuring his goods that are to be sold in the shop from a fixed set of vendors - some his relatives, some that people have recommended and some that came and pitched to him. He may not have ever seen the kind of designs and products that a supplier from Mysore can offer. Or the credit terms that another supplier from Surat can offer. Putting him on a platform where he can easily browse products and build new business relationships is a life-changing proposition for him.
We believe that technology should be accessible and usable for these SMEs so that they can grow and simplify their business, and compete in a fair field.
If making the lives of businesses in India and the world simpler excites you, then this is the
perfect opportunity!
You will be solving challenging problems, defining your own charter and be the master of your own growth. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
We have more than 170k businesses on our platform already with great engagement numbers. We are backed by the top founders and VCs in the country(Titan Capital, FirstCheque).

We are set to grow even faster in the future.
Join us if you want to be a part of a fast-paced team.


Job Description

This is a remote position.

We’re in search of a senior back-end engineer that specializes in ROR with excellent
knowledge of core concepts of backend engineering.

Requirements

Must-haves:
1. You need to be excited about the problem that we are trying to solve
2. Should have excellent command over ruby on rails with a minimum experience of 2 years.
3. Additional knowledge in Golang will be an advantage
4. Strong Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge
5. Should have created APIs from scratch which is being used in Production
6. Should be comfortable with creating systems handling up to 100k requests per minute, and have a mindset that understands scale
7. Ability to give clarity and communicate well with the team, including Product, Backend and Dev-Ops (if and when needed)
8. Ability to use profiling tools well, getting to root causes of bugs fast
9. 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)
10.Knowledge of how to set up relevant test cases
11. You need to be comfortable working in a remote environment (Have your own
laptop, good internet connection, availability on phone are required)

Good to have

1. App Development experience
2. Experience in Test Driven Development
3. 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
4. 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 )
5. Experience in working on a Social Media Product
6. Good knowledge of Graphs, and their applications
7. Data-Driven Approach to monitoring

Benefits
1. Work timings - You are the master of your time
2. Leave policy - Take a leave whenever for whatever reason you want. You don't
need to explain yourself to us
3. Industry standard salary

Want to work for Riskcovry?
We are a passionate, dynamic, and balanced team. Our culture is open, direct, and merit-oriented. Our team has enormous depth across insurance, technology, fintech, strategy and investment. We have great investors partnering with us to help achieve our vision.

Riskcovry is one of the fastest growing startups in our space and we would love to have you onboard. Read more about us:
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We are looking for people who:
1. Have a strong bias for action and value speed over perfection.
2. Make decisions with this ethos: Customer > Company > Team > Me
3. Thrive in a flat and open organization
4. Recognize that frugality is the key to efficiency
5. Are self-starters and have a natural tendency to own company and team goals

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing technical leadership, design and development of complex pieces of the service oriented architecture based platform.
• Modelling Database Design for large scale applications.
• Develop for performance engineering.
• Design for the right use of micro services, containerization and observability.

• Drive technology and product innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
• Create reference implementation for our integrations and for backward compatibility.
• Not interested in managerial responsibilities

Requirements, Desired Skills and Experience

• Tech Stack based on Ruby-on-Rails, Python-Django or Node.js frameworks.

• Engineering degree 

   Opportunities for the right candidate

• Build and develop SaaS and PaaS products from scratch
• Build the best-in-class UX based products
• State of Art technologies (Latest trends in the industry)
• Work with a well-knit team, almost like one’s family
• Startup culture and advantages of working in a co-working space
• Performance based career progress and high visibility with management and founders

Technical qualifications

• 2+ years of working experience in delivering web applications. 
• Strong experience in Ruby on Rails, API design and architecture.
• Strong experience in databases like MongoDB/PostgreSQL/MySQL.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming(OOPs) concepts, data structures, algorithms, APIs, web services, SQL concepts.
• Experience in any JS frameworks like Express. js/Node. js/AngularJS/ReactJS.
• Understanding of version control tools - Git/SVN.
• Supportive in providing clean, maintainable code.
• Empathize with client needs and architect custom solutions.
• Brownie points for knowledge in Golang.

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

Qualifications BA/BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical, Mathematics or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 8-12 years’ of overall experience in working on Banking & Financial services domain preferably in a product development company Experience/ability to design solution architecture for Core Banking implementations is highly preferred. Should have ability to articulate and design product extensibility, customizations and integrations in-line with product architecture Software Development experience through hands on coding in a general purpose programming language. Experience in developing and deploying solutions on the cloud Capabilities Experience in designing and developing Solutions for Financial services industry Experience in NoSQL / Columnar database - Clickhouse, MongoDb, Cassandra, ElasticSearch Experience in Designing and Developing products in the Micro Services framework using Node.js, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails Web technologies in AngularJS/ReactJS Experience in XML/XSD/XPATH/XQUERY and JSON Exposure to working with Big Data Platforms and Knowledge of multiple Big Data frameworks Basic Understanding of AI, ML and Deep Learning Technologies Expert in designing and developing Application Integration using JMS/MQ, Web Services Knowledge and understanding of Data Integration solutions. Experience in implementing Reporting tools like ELK and exposure to Data visualization Sound knowledge of J2EE application servers such as WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss and Apache Tomcat. Ability to shape ideas and opinions through proper communications and networking with key stakeholders using ones knowledge and experience. Excellent verbal, written and telephonic communication skills Ability to build scalable solutions Understanding Application security including vulnerabilities and solutions Coding ninja. Hands on experience in Complete delivery of SAAS based Software Prior start‐up experience preferred. Self starter Balance Hacker mentality with commercial grade software Curious and passion for learning Going above and beyond to solve a problem (technical or business) Key Responsibilities Actively participate in and contribute to architectural and technical stack choices Recommend and implement technical solutions in a phased approach to introduce new product constructs to our platform Create high level and detailed design specifications Engage with Product Managers, Architects and business stakeholders to define platform requirements, testing, training and support Work with and support Product Owners to deliver world beating solutions Work with business stakeholders and partners on system design, development and execution and ensure high quality deliverables Own the technical architecture, design and delivery of the solutions Provide mentorship to junior team members Hire junior engineers

Roles and Responsibilities Partner with Product and Operation teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities • Should have capability to build quick prototypes of decision support tools working with business operations and Psychologists • Define and execute the product roadmap • Develop and implement database, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality • Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how users interact with both consumer and business products • Maintain existing infrastructure and proactively look for bugs and issues Additional Requirements: • Ability to work on their own given a directive, including working on finding solutions to problems they may encounter (encouraged to bounce ideas and problems off the team but does not need to be guided through the process) • Technical knowledge of building web applications, big data architecture • Good documentation habit • Ability to leverage emerging technologies and identify efficient and meaningful ways to disseminate data and analysis in order to satisfy the business' needs • Strong written and oral communication skills • Excellent organizational and communication skills • Take initiative to ensure the work is completed on time • Support the team during fast paced expansion • Take ownership and apply creative solutions to modern day problems • Work with the development Sales, support and Marketing teams to build and enhance existing products Key Attributes: • Self-motivated, self-directing and a good communicator. A passion for performance, debugging and benchmarking • Self-starter who goes above and beyond the expected requirements of the role • Be flexible and be comfortable in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment with frequently changing business needs • Work well under pressure, be able to prioritize to meet deadlines and quickly shift priorities as necessary • Positive and optimistic attitude are necessary

We are looking for Full Stack Developer with the following technical skills and experience. - Experience with Python development and object-oriented design - Experience building web applications using MVC frameworks(Django is a plus) - Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MySQL, Android development is a plus - Familiarity with JavaScript (jQuery), experience with AngularJS is a plus - Good grasp of Data Structures and Algorithms And the following attributes - Passion for using the power of technology to positively impact underserved communities - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Loves the intensity, chaos and passion of start-ups, and wants to work with a fun-loving team who truly enjoy working together to realize a shared dream - Team player who takes ownership of work, is detail and deadline oriented, with a strong work ethic Our technology stack includes the following : Languages : Python/Javascript/Ruby Frameworks : Nodejs/Django/React JS