Ruby on Rails Developer

Job Description

Job Title: RoR Developer (2-4 Years)

Job Description:
We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.

POSITION OBJECTIVE:

• Developers must participate in all aspects of the product development life cycle.
• Developers working within the engineering teams are expected to write quality, well-engineered, unit tested, maintainable and readable code, engineered according to Clients’ development and architectural standards
• Developers are required to engage with Product Management to produce technical and functional specification documentation appropriate to technical developer and non-technical business audiences.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code
• Integration of data storage solutions {{may include databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.}}
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization and automatization
   

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop the necessary best practices to work with and write a great code base.
• Help evaluate and select the tools, languages and frameworks used by the team.
• Begin to take an ownership position on code and systems developed by others.
• Proficient in the ‘real-world’ use of Products you are developing.
• Own the specification of software requirements and designs, engaging with Product owners to understand functional and business requirements
• Learn how to measure non-functional aspects of the code, particularly performance and scalability.
• Adhere to project and department standards for quality, proficiency, and customer satisfaction.
• Participate in the development of documentation and training materials required for each of the products
• Ensure all Project assigned deliverables are completed on specification, quality and according to agreed timelines
• Able to assess cross project impact of design and technology decisions
• Able to learn new technologies wherever needed.
• Need to participate in client communication for technical issues wherever required depending upon requirements.

SKILLS:

• High Level Design & Analytical Skills
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, along with other common libraries such as RSpec and Resque.
• Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful.
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience on DB (SQL & No-SQL) like MySQL, Mongo, Postgres etc.
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools e.g. GIT, Mercurial or SVN
• Familiarity with development aiding tools such as Bower, Bundler, Rake, etc
• Experience in deployment strategies and CI/CD tools l
• Exposure to large scale integration projects and performance
• Proficient understanding and Exposure to code versioning tools - Jira, GIT, GITLAB, BITBUCKET
• Familiar with cloud platforms - AWS, Google cloud, Digital Ocean

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Honors degree in computing or a related subject, or commensurate industry experience.
• 2-4 years relevant experience in RoR
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Extensive experience building, testing, and deploying high quality, highly reliable, scalable web applications, APIs, and user-interfaces in a team environment.
• Extensive experience working on Product development using an agile methodology
• Experience evaluating tools, technologies and hiring good candidates