Senior Ruby on Rails Developer for Mumbai

About Icicle

Icicle builds Web & Mobile products for Startups, Brands, Digital Agencies and Enterprises, helping in bringing their ideas to life. More - www.icicletech.com

We create beautiful & engaging UX, clean Front-ends, scalable Applications and manage them on Cloud. We build products with a captive team of exceptional professionals working across time-zones.

Team consists of bright young designers, hackers, senior developers, startup specialists. Team is distributed, with offices in New York, Mumbai, Bangalore and presence in Pune.


About Opportunity

• Design, Architect, Develop & Release multiple products in Financial Domain
• Team size of about 20 with Development team of 6 - 8. Work with different stakeholders - Product Owners, Business Analysts, UX Designers & QA Team
• Work and directly responsible for the end-client, a Financial Major in US
• Get complete control of product with active involvement in deciding stack and architecture

About You

• 4+ years of experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails including knowledge/experience with Test Driven Development approach (strongly preferred)
• Exhibit highest quality software engineering practices, always striving to improve and perfect our craft.
• You write clean code, automate and continuously deploy it
• Willingness to learn new skills and programming practices in the course of developing solutions that will improve our products and development flow.
• Youre looking to be stimulated, solve hard problems, and work with smart people
• You are proactive and pay attention to the security, scalability, performance, availability and usability of our systems
• You want to take ownership of quality and usability of your code. Ready to revisit your own code and improve it.
• You love to participate in DevOps tasks, design reviews, writing stories, test cases, coding modules, code reviews, unit testing and automated acceptance testing.
• You might not be familiar with every tool for development, but you're a fast learner- you can go from zero to expert in no time flat. 

Technical Expertise

Core
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Rest API

Datastores
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached,

Front-end
Coffeescript, jQuery, Bootstrap, React.js (Good to have) or any MVC framework

Testing
Rspec

Cloud/Deployments
Capistrano, Heroku, AWS


You Should Have

• Ambition to make things awesome, not just good enough.
• 4+ years of experience in Ruby/Rails (for the Back-end position), extensive experience in web development in general and more languages as a bonus
• Prior experience with test-driven development methodologies - used extensively for all products/projects
• Gained good knowledge of working with APIs and performance optimisation
• Value test-driven development, intelligent software design techniques and clean and clear coding style
• Have excellent communication skills.

Good to Have

• Participation in open source projects
• Actively involved in solving problems on Github, Stackoverflow.com and groups
• Passionate about blogging technical stuff
• Experience in AngularJS, ReactJS or any other MVC framework is a plus
• Prior experience in the Financial industry a plus!

What you get

• Competitive salary with motivating performance bonus
• You will be working directly with product owners based out in US.
• You will make a big impact on our product, specification and decision making
• Opportunity to work with big team of committed, talented people with a great sense of humor

So, if you have 4+ years of experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails, apply today!

We will love to talk! Please submit

* Your complete application with salary expectations
* Your GitHub ID