Senior Backend Developer

Title: Senior Backend Developer

Location: Remote

Timings: Full Time (As per company timings)

Notice Period: (Immediate Joiner - Preferred)

Experience: 5 - 8 Years

Looking for a thoughtful, adaptive individual with a growth mindset to join our growing team as a Backend Software Engineer.

In this role, you will work closely with multiple product teams to create web and mobile client applications to serve customers with an engaging, dynamic user experience. We have seen people thrive in this role from a variety of backgrounds, but we work mostly in Ruby on Rails and React Native. This role is focused more on server development, so Rails experience is a plus, but not a requirement.

Responsibilities include solving problems, experimenting, and building features that we measure for value to our users. Candidates must have strong communication skills, the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently, sound judgment, and the ability to be productive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

Please find the update on the Senior Backend Developer job description:

Responsibilities:

• Build scalable, highly reliable product features
• Work closely with client developers to architect high-throughput systems
• Conduct design and code reviews
• Create and maintain documentation about code and engineering processes to help achieve high-performing solutions and teams
• Work in a collaborative environment by occasional pair and/or mob programming
• Communicating with Engineering Managers and Product Owners to plan and prioritize work, design technical solutions and meet mutually agreed-upon deliverables
• Innovate on and improve solution quality, identify and address process and code inefficiencies, and raise awareness of engineering culture improvements
• Grow subject matter expertise in programming, product, and platform

Requirements:

• Hands-on knowledge of version control systems such as Git
• 3+ Ruby experience, or similar dynamic scripting language experience
• 3+ Rails experience, or similar web framework experience
• Experience with templating frameworks (e.g., Haml, ERB)
• Experience with TDD/BDD frameworks, such as RSpec and Cucumber
• Experience with MySQL and relational database design
• Knowledge of RESTful API design
• Ability to demonstrate technical know-how through individual contributions, pair programming exercises, and architectural designs
• Technical leadership skills with the ability to resolve ambiguity in requirements
• Solid understanding of the full development life cycle
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, and quality assurance
• Ability to reason with and adapt to evolving development tasks and priorities
• Strong communication skills to create a productive communication environment with team members and stakeholders

Hopes:

• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with the Serverless framework for AWS Lambdas
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Willingness to participate in mentoring and skills transfer among team members
• A continuous learning mindset that keeps you current on development best practices and trends
• A desire for a deep technical understanding of the problems at hand
• Ability to balance trade-oBs between speed and quality based on business priorities
• Experience with React or React Native