About the job
Sarvaha is seeking a skilled and passionate Lead Ruby Developer with a minimum of 7+ years of hands-on experience in Ruby and backend architecture. Youll work on challenging, high-performance systems and collaborate with a talented team that values quality, ownership, and clean code.

What Youll Do
Build, maintain, and scale backend systems using Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Design and implement scalable APIs using Rails, Grape, and ActiveModel
Tune performance across the stack including GC, queries, jobs, and server setups
Develop, package, and publish custom Ruby gems
Optimize ActiveRecord queries & PostgreSQL indices to eliminate N+1 and improve query plans
Manage application servers (Passenger, Thin) and tune thread/process models
Own and maintain deployment pipelines, initializers, routing, and Rails engines
Profile memory usage, monitor connections, and optimize worker threads
Contribute to code reviews, mentoring, and agile development processes
Collaborate cross-functionally with frontend and DevOps teams

You Bring
BE/BTech/MTech (CS/IT or MCA),



with an emphasis in Software Engineering
Minimum 7 years of skilled Ruby development experience
Solid proficiency in Ruby (language internals, idioms, meta-programming)
Deep knowledge of thread vs process models, connection handling, worker tuning & memory profiling
Deep knowledge of OOP principles, mixins, blocks, procs, and lambdas
Solid grasp of Rails internals: ActiveRecord, ActiveJob, ActionCable, validations, callbacks, etc.
Experience with PostgreSQL and advanced ActiveRecord tuning
Proficient in using Bundler, Rake, Rubygems, and gem building
Comfortable with tools like RVM, rbenv, and chruby

Needed Soft Skills
Solid debugging and troubleshooting skills
Ownership mindset and accountability
Comfortable working in Agile teams and pair programming
Proactive in documentation and sharing knowledge
Empathetic collaborator and open to mentoring peers
Passion for clean code, performance, and continuous improvement

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🏢 Sarvaha Systems
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