Job Description
• Overall 7-12 years of industry experience in programming web applications, mobile and/or large scale enterprise products.
• At least 6 years of experience in Ruby
• Deep knowledge of the Ruby language, related frameworks (Rails), and the Ruby toolchain
• Substantial experience with BDD or TDD and testing frameworks
• Substantial experience designing APIs
• Hands-on experience with both RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQLServer, etc) and NoSQL (Mongo, DynamoDB, etc).
• Fluency in Git and branching workflows such as Gitflow or Trunk-based development.
• Demonstrated ability to work well on highly collaborative scrum teams.
• Familiarity with Agile concepts and comfortable working with issue tracking tools such as Jira or ADO.
• Detailed oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude.
• Comfort with nix-based systems and the command prompt.
• Experience using Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Demonstrated ability to pick up new concepts quickly.
• Interest in working with various server languages such as: Golang, C#, Haskell, Clojure, or something other than Ruby
• Communicate professionally both verbally and in writing.
• Effective time management skills.
• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Serves as a self-directed, key contributor on a scrum team building new features.
• Resolves ongoing defects to ensure high quality software delivery.
• Makes implementation design decisions around new features.
• Analyzes technical requirements with the team to gauge level of effort.
• Breaks down complex projects and mentors more junior engineers.
• Carefully analyzes design specifications before coding to understand effort levels required.
• Creates technical documentation for new features that can be easily understood by peers.
• Writes and executes tests, including creating comprehensive unit tests.
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
• Keeps abreast of new technologies.
• Ensures designs and projects created comply with design library guidelines, internal best practices, and coding conventions when applicable.
• Ability to decompose and delegate work to junior engineers.
• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful sprints.
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations.
• Works effectively with multiple projects and features.
• All other duties as assigned.
ADDITIONAL DESIRED BACKGROUND:
• Familiarity with architecture patterns like Pub/Sub, Event Sourcing and CQRS
• Familiarity search engines such as CloudSearch and ElasticSearch
• Familiarity with IaC concepts and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Chef, CloudFormation, or similar.
WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard.
• This position is mostly stationary and will be required to remain stationary for extended periods of time.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.
• At least 6 years of experience in Ruby
• Deep knowledge of the Ruby language, related frameworks (Rails), and the Ruby toolchain
• Substantial experience with BDD or TDD and testing frameworks
• Substantial experience designing APIs
• Hands-on experience with both RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQLServer, etc) and NoSQL (Mongo, DynamoDB, etc).
• Fluency in Git and branching workflows such as Gitflow or Trunk-based development.
• Demonstrated ability to work well on highly collaborative scrum teams.
• Familiarity with Agile concepts and comfortable working with issue tracking tools such as Jira or ADO.
• Detailed oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude.
• Comfort with nix-based systems and the command prompt.
• Experience using Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Demonstrated ability to pick up new concepts quickly.
• Interest in working with various server languages such as: Golang, C#, Haskell, Clojure, or something other than Ruby
• Communicate professionally both verbally and in writing.
• Effective time management skills.
• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Serves as a self-directed, key contributor on a scrum team building new features.
• Resolves ongoing defects to ensure high quality software delivery.
• Makes implementation design decisions around new features.
• Analyzes technical requirements with the team to gauge level of effort.
• Breaks down complex projects and mentors more junior engineers.
• Carefully analyzes design specifications before coding to understand effort levels required.
• Creates technical documentation for new features that can be easily understood by peers.
• Writes and executes tests, including creating comprehensive unit tests.
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
• Keeps abreast of new technologies.
• Ensures designs and projects created comply with design library guidelines, internal best practices, and coding conventions when applicable.
• Ability to decompose and delegate work to junior engineers.
• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful sprints.
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, participating in professional organizations.
• Works effectively with multiple projects and features.
• All other duties as assigned.
ADDITIONAL DESIRED BACKGROUND:
• Familiarity with architecture patterns like Pub/Sub, Event Sourcing and CQRS
• Familiarity search engines such as CloudSearch and ElasticSearch
• Familiarity with IaC concepts and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Chef, CloudFormation, or similar.
WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard.
• This position is mostly stationary and will be required to remain stationary for extended periods of time.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Principal Software Engineer-Ruby on Rails position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in Pune offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.