Senior Software Engineer- Ruby on Rails

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer specializing in Ruby on Rails to join our dynamic development team. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend systems, with a keen focus on performance and code quality. This position requires strong technical leadership, excellent problem-solving abilities, and a collaborative approach to working with product and engineering teams.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Conduct thorough code reviews for other team members, ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines.
• Proactively identify and adopt industry best practices and idiomatic Ruby on Rails patterns.
• Collaborate closely with the product team to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Work effectively with fellow engineers to deliver robust, reliable, and high-performance backend solutions with minimal oversight.
• Maintain a fanatical focus on application performance, optimizing code and database queries for efficiency.
• Emphasize and ensure high code quality metrics, maintainability, and scalability.
• Demonstrate the ability to work well under pressure and adapt quickly to a changing business environment and evolving requirements.
• Provide critical support for bug fixes, system enhancements, and participate in disaster recovery efforts for existing software and systems.
• Possess excellent technical knowledge of the entire software architecture, understanding how different components interact.

Skillsets Required:

• Must have hands-on experience in

  Ruby/Ruby on Rails

  and a strong knack for writing clean, readable, and performant code.
• Strong knowledge of

  Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Concepts, Data Structures, Algorithms, and Design Patterns

  .
• Experience in developing

  B2C (Business-to-Consumer) applications

  .
• Proven ability in building and consuming

  APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)

  .
• Experience in running and maintaining

  background jobs

  .
• Proficiency in

  full-stack performance tuning

  .
• Excellent experience with various data sources such as

  MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis

  , etc.
• Familiarity with concepts of

  MVC (Model-View-Controller), Mocking, ORM (Object-Relational Mapping), and RESTful principles

  .
• Strong working knowledge of

  Linux

  environments.
• Knowledge of

  AWS (Amazon Web Services)

  and

  Elastic Search

  will be advantageous.
• Experience with

  Agile methodologies

  and software development using versioning software (e.g.,

  GIT

  ).