Expert Ruby on Rails Developer for Ciklum Digital

Ciklum

Islamabad

6d ago

Description

On behalf of Ciklum Digital, we are looking for an Expert Ruby on Rails Developer to join our team on a full-time basis.

About Client :

Babbel is driven by a mission : Everyone. Learning. Languages. This means building products that help people connect and communicate across cultures.

and focus on using a new language in the real world, in real situations, with real people. And it works : Studies with Yale University, City University of New York and Michigan State University prove that it gets users talking with confidence.

The key is a blend of humanity and technology. A team of linguistic experts hand-craft each of our courses, to provide content that is constantly adapted to our learners’ needs.

Interactive content with videos and podcasts makes understanding a new language easy, because Babbel is for everyone. That’s why our team is as diverse as our content.

From headquarters in Berlin and New York, 750 people from more than 65 nationalities represent the backgrounds, characteristics and perspectives that make all humans unique.

Making a true connection with millions of paid subscribers across the globe is what makes Babbel the most profitable language learning app worldwide.

Babbel in Numbers :

The #1 top-grossing language learning app globally

Millions of active paying subscribers

More than 60,000 lessons 14 languages hand-crafted by 150+ linguists

More than 10,000 hours of learning content

Over 70 learning podcast episodes and over 50 hours of video learning content

As part of our team, we’ll collectively tackle all things engagement : how do we make sure that learners are always challenged, but never overwhelmed?

That everyone coming to Babbel feels welcomed? That everyone feels motivated to pick up the app and learn something every single day?

In your role, your mission will be to drive the development of a technical platform that enables seamless and effective operation of the internal Customer Support department at our company (75 members and growing).

This is a really cross-functional role as the main goal for your team will be an optimisation of internal processes and a construction of a platform that aggregates and exposes various data streams and features from different Babbel products and knowledge domains.

You will be collaborating with a variety of teams and departments and diving into different disciplines to broaden your knowledge in other fields of expertise as well as share your own.

You will contribute to great architecture and build the base of an easily extendable and well maintainable platform.

Responsibilities

Own architectural design and constantly propose improvements of the existing features

Deliver value iteratively by building high-quality applications and features

Build, maintain, and take ownership of a rich ecosystem of applications and services

Be part of feature teams and build end-to-end customer features

Ensure that the systems you own are healthy, resilient, and perform well

Collaborate cross-functionally on feature design, architectural decisions, and assessing technical debt

Participate in the search for ways to improve and automate corporate processes

Shape our coding guidelines and quality standards

React, troubleshoot and solve operational events (bugs and incidents)

Focus on continuous learning and improvement and drive the evolution of our engineering practices

A can-do attitude to build MVPs and iterate on them in short cycles

Experience with infrastructure-as-code, ideally with Terraform

Requirements

Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory : Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID)Database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL)Code testing practicesArchitectural, Enterprise and Design Patterns

Excellent knowledge and experience in Ruby on Rails (more than 5 years)

Practical commercial experience with : REST API developmentStrong sense for good API design and third-party API integrationsWeb application frameworks, Testing frameworks, ORMRDBMS (e.

g MySQL, PostgreSQL)Experience NoSQL databasesKey-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)Experience in using AWSStrong understanding of Event-Driven ArchitectureTesting experience on different levels : unit, integration, E2EVersion control systems (GIT)Docker

Experience with : Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applicationsCreation software architecture and design of complex applications, platformsAgile software processes and technologiesCode Review processRefactoring process

Fluent or Upper-Intermediate English

Desirable

More than a year of commercial experience and proficient knowledge in JavaScript, HTML, CSS (incl. preprocessors and CSS in JS)

Experience with Payments, Pricing or Customer Support business domains

Experience with Data-intensive systems

Knowledge of analyzing metrics about system health and performance (ideally DataDog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Rollbar)

What's in it for you

Close cooperation with the client

A constant flow of new projects

Dynamic and challenging tasks

Ability to influence project technologies

Projects from scratch

Team of professionals : learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills

European management style

Continuous self-improvement

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