Lead Engineer (Ruby On Rails)

Velotio Technologies is a product engineering company working with innovative startups and enterprises. We are a certified Great Place to Work® and recognized as one of the best companies to work for in India. We have provided full-stack product development for 325+ startups across the globe building products in the cloud-native, data engineering, B2B SaaS, IoT & Machine Learning space. Our team of 400+ elite software engineers solves hard technical problems while transforming customer ideas into successful products.

We are looking for a versatile Backend developer with proficiency in Web frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix and/or Django/Python. You will get to design, architect and develop complex enterprise software and SaaS web applications leveraging modern web stack.

• 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:

• 5+ 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.

Our Culture:

• We have an autonomous and empowered work culture encouraging individuals to take ownership and grow quickly.
• Flat hierarchy with fast decision making and a startup-oriented “get things done” culture.
• A strong, fun & positive environment with regular celebrations of our success. We pride ourselves in creating an inclusive, diverse & authentic environment.

We want to hire smart, curious, and ambitious folks, so please reach out even if you do not have all of the requisite experience. We are looking for engineers with the potential to grow!

At Velotio, we embrace diversity. Inclusion is a priority for us, and we are eager to foster an environment where everyone feels valued. We welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.