Lead Software Engineer (ruby On Rails) Job in Kiprosh

Seeking passionate Technical Leader having 7+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails.

You are a full-stack engineer with an innate passion for writing elegant, idiomatic & pragmatic code.

Must Have Skills

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills. And you enjoy collaborating with others
• A minimum of 7 years of experience with Ruby on Rails or other Ruby frameworks
• Experience with Micro-service Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), GraphQL, and REST APIs
• You are obsessed with good design, performance engineering, and scalability
• Sound knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts and design patterns
• Strong knowledge of relational database concepts and database engines like PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Working knowledge of Javascript, DOM, CSS, HTML
• Strong experience with Git versioning system, PR review process, and Code quality metrics
• You understand the importance of concepts like "Test Driven Development" and utilize them to bring more stability & predictability in applications. We are a heavy user of RSpec, Unit Testing, Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployments (CD)

Good To Have Skills

• Experience leading a team of at least 5 craftsmen
• Experience developing API using GraphQL will be a huge plus
• Experience scaling large systems and big data will be a plus
• Experience with modern Javascript libraries, frameworks & its ecosystem will be a huge plus. Example: React.js / Ember.js / Angular.js / Vue.js etc.
• Working knowledge or understanding of the SaaS ecosystem will be a plus
• Knowledge of Sidekiq, Redis, Solr, Heroku, AWS, Elastic Search will be a huge plus
• Experience working with Payment Gateways like Chargify, Stripe, Others. etc will be a plus
• Contribution to open source projects, have participated in some technical community or meetups or interest groups or have written or spoken in public about technical ideas
• Inclination to develop your own gems or reusable components or libraries
• Exposure to cloud deployment on Amazon or deployment on Heroku or standalone virtual servers etc. (or exposure to PaaS)

What is it like to work at Kiprosh

• We're a remote-friendly and calm company
• We use the latest and powerful hardware for software development
• We are heavy on extreme programming and agile methodology. Our DNA is engineering practices like TDD, CI, CD, Code reviews, Pair programming, etc
• Our international customers consider us as strategic partners to their businesses
• We allocate time to work on open source projects (check: Kiprosh Github)
• We encourage you to blog about your development experience with the rest of the world. (check: Kiprosh Engineering Blogs)
• Company-wide, we conduct monthly floor events to share the latest trends in technologies, lessons learned in projects, engineering practices, etc
• We celebrate small wins and not wait for only big wins
• We have company-wide outings twice a year
• We have yearly awards ceremony and celebrations