Senior Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

• Design & build highly scalable, high performance, responsive web applications.
• Take full ownership and responsibility for building, shipping, and maintaining core product features, end to end. Help out in building the backend & front-end infrastructure.
• Translation of requirements, designs and wireframes into high quality code. Collaborate closely with designers, engineers, founders and product managers.
• Mentor team members and review their work.

You will enjoy this role if you...

• Are a geek with a desire to stay ahead of the curve.
• Like building beautiful well-architected software products with millions of users.
• Work collaboratively as part of a close-knit team of geeks, architects and leads.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years of production experience with modern web frameworks - Ruby on Rails..
• Should have sound experience in developing scalable / distributed SaaS apps.
• Should have good knowledge and work experience in REST API implementations, JSON format handling, caching, sessions, multi-threading, etc.
• Should be comfortable with database schema design and leveraging SQL & NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB).
• Experience developing, consuming and transforming internal and 3rd party API's (REST and GraphQL).
• Experience with code quality and reusability practices (CI/CD for back-end & front-end repos).
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, design patterns.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, troubleshooting, and agile development.
• Communication: You like discussing a plan upfront, welcome collaboration, and are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Bonus points if you...

• Exposure to front-end technologies like React, Javascript/Typescript.
• Cloud native development on AWS or GCP.
• Experience with implementation of container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes. Knowledge of continuous integration, continuous delivery and enterprise DevOps concepts.