Rails Engineer

• Research and feasibility checks

  : Provide input based on research or your experience to assist in the ideation of features. You ll frequently advise the team on the feasibility of ideas and suggest alternative routes to achieve the features objective.

• Planning and estimation

  : You will assist the team in planning and estimating features to ensure their timely rollout and correct functionality.

• Software development

  : Develop robust APIs for the platforms we manage. Youll also be involved in analysing performance and errors to keep the platform at its best! We build plugins and templates for features that are common across platforms. Youll need to be vigilant for such opportunities and may even participate in building them.

• Continuous improvement

  : Participate actively in team retrospective events by raising problems and frustrations and offering solutions.

What you need to have

1. You are open to working remotely.
2. You have exceptional communication skills.
3. You are resourceful. We dont expect you to know all the answers immediately, but we want you to research and learn on the go to get the job done right.
4. You can identify problems around you and independently propose solutions to them. We love independent problem-solvers and encourage all our employees to suggest changes to streamline our processes.
5. You are organised, and structured. We want you if your PRs are well structured, have great descriptions, and your JIRA tickets are always on the right status.
6. A strong understanding of

   Ruby on Rails

   , APIs, and database design.

Skills and experiences wed like to see

1. Youve built scalable digital platforms before that have been deployed to production environments.
2. You know how GraphQL, and REST APIs work, i.e., how to build, maintain, and improve them.
3. You have designed databases and optimized their performance.
4. You understand the different components of a backend system such as app servers, databases, and caches.
5. You have a sound understanding of deploying apps to staging or production via automated tools such as Github Actions or Travis.