Junior Backend Developer, Ruby on Rails, Remote

Who we are:

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The role:

We're looking for a Junior Backend Developer, Ruby on Rails, Remote to join our team. This is a remote role. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Remote within India. The team meets in Bengaluru once a quarter, travel covered. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

In your first few months you will:

• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling

What we're looking for:

• 0-2 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Clear written communication, including design docs

Desirable:

• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Compensation and benefits:

• Learning budget
• Flexible hours
• Paid leave
• Gratuity

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at SF Data.