Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, testing and deployment of significant features, driving them from development to production
• Build RESTful APIs, components, frameworks and CI/CD pipelines that increase the quality, predictability and efficiency of business outcomes
• Develop scalable, robust, and simple web-based solutions to solve complex business problems
• Collaborate closely with cross-discipline teams including Frontend, Design, QA, and Product to build scalable web applications and services
• Proactively monitor application performance and stability using tools such as New Relic, Airbrake etc.
• Formulate, implement, and evaluate algorithms and database queries to support SaaS scalability and stability.
• Generate innovative new ideas, concepts, high-fidelity software prototypes and minimum viable products (MVPs) which accelerate or create new business capabilities.
• Evaluate, analyze and lead the adoption of emerging new technologies and practices to evolve as new standards that improve software delivery and maximize value.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience developing object-oriented software with a solid understanding of Ruby/Rails
• In-depth understanding of fundamentals of relational and NoSQL databases and command over SQL.
• Experience in working with large code bases and complex problems
• Fluency using Git and GitHub in a team environment
• Fluency in engineering practices such as TDD, CI, continuous deployment and code reviews
• Ability to instrument a system to identify and solve performance issues and constraints
• Understanding of scaling, throughput and latency
• Enthusiasm for ensuring thorough automated test coverage for your own deliverables
• Previous experience working with ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, SingleStore(MemSQL)

The candidate should be a quick learner and should be up to date with current technology trends. We solve complex, completely new problems in the financial domain which requires someone who is not intimidated by challenges, thrives under pressure and hyper-focused on delivering exceptional results.

Experience: 3-5 years

About Synaptic

Synaptic is a series B-funded India and US-based SaaS start-up that is bringing the power of alternative data to the world of investing. We unify real-time insights on companies across 100s of metrics onto one platform. Data is changing traditional investment research and we are at the forefront of this change. Our customers are some of the biggest and the most prolific venture capital firms, private equity shops and hedge funds managing hundreds of billions of dollars cumulatively. We are backed by marquee global funds like Valor Equity Partners, Ribbit, Felicis and Vy Capital.