Junior RoR Developer

Nextpoint is the industry leader in delivering cloud-based services for eLaw. Our market-leading software and services help legal-related organisations conquer their eDiscovery, Litigation and Admin needs. We do this by providing a powerful SaaS platform with world-class support and engagement teams that help hundreds of law firms across the country manage large data sets, identify relevant information via AI and complex searches, and organise evidence to build compelling arguments to support their clients’ interests. 

Nextpoint is venturing into International markets and is opening a new branch in Bangalore, India to be able to meet the growing client demand.

As a ROR Developer, you will be involved in delivering cloud-based solutions to support our client’s success. The role embeds you with a motivated development team where you will identify, plan, support and execute tasks that deliver real value to our clients. You’ll play multiple roles and contribute to our mission.

Roles And Responsibilities 

• Building new tools and solutions to enable client self-service.
• Comprehensive knowledge of designing and developing high-quality, efficient software.
• Coordinate with team members who work on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Seek ways to push and improve Nextpoint development processes by introducing new methods and technologies.
• Delivering software solutions to increase our clients’ command of their data. 
• Identify and track meaningful metrics.

Key Requirements for this Role:

• 1 - 2 years of work experience as an RoR Developer.
• Experience with ROR, along with other common libraries such as rubo-cop and rest-client, pronto, rake, mocha, and RubyInLin.
• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure is a major plus.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial.
• Working knowledge of MySQL, Active Records and Elastic.
• Should have Knowledge of web services, like API, REST, and RPC.
• Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS. 
• Should have an In-depth understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Familiarity with various testing tools and ability to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests.

Special Requirements for this Role

• Passionate Software Engineer who contributes to define, implement and maintain highly scalable, distributed and resilient software applications.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information, both orally and in writing.
• Should have experience working in an Agile environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree.