RoR Developer

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• Strengthen your expertise through leading training programs and hands-on experience
  
  

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About The Role

Job Title: RoR Developer

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance Ruby/Rails applications and APIs using clean, maintainable architecture.
• Confidently work with ActiveRecord and relational databases, including query optimization, indexing, transactions, and data modeling.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks across application, database, and API layers.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents using logs, monitoring, stack traces, and root-cause analysis.
• Design and manage background processing workflows using Sidekiq or comparable systems, with focus on retries, failures, concurrency, and idempotency.
• Use suitable data structures and algorithms to solve engineering problems effectively.
• Perform impactful code reviews, emphasizing correctness, maintainability, scalability, and potential production risks.
  
  

Required

• Demonstrated, hands-on experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Ability to reason about performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Comfortable taking ownership of problems from investigation through production resolution.
• Strong engineering judgment and commitment to code quality.
• Practical working knowledge in the areas listed above is required; deep theoretical expertise is not a prerequisite.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.