Back End Developer

💡 Join JustLanded – The Future of Smart Airport Rideshares

JustLanded is a service that helps travelers save money by matching people heading to similar destinations from the airport, enabling them to share costs and travel efficiently.

Launched in 2024, we have mapped out an initial design and started building a working prototype. Now, we’re providing smart, motivated, and enthusiastic engineers an opportunity to help us launch our first version.

This is a unique opportunity to:

✅ Put your skills to work on a real commercial product.

✅ Learn new technologies while working with small, agile teams.

✅ Earn equity in an early-stage startup.

✅ Grow with our organization and take on larger roles as we scale.

✅ Gain strong references for your future career if you deliver great results.

We believe in empowering our team with hands-on experience, mentorship, and long-term growth opportunities. If you’re passionate about building innovative solutions and want to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!

🎯 The Role: Backend Developer (Ruby on Rails)

As a Backend Developer, you’ll enhance and maintain our Ruby on Rails API, the backbone of our Android, iOS, and web applications. You’ll work with an existing codebase, collaborate with frontend developers, and ensure a scalable, high-performance API.

🔹 Key Responsibilities

✅ Extend and maintain our Ruby on Rails API to support new features.

✅ Design, implement, and optimize RESTful API endpoints for Flutter-based frontends.

✅ Work with MySQL to manage and optimize data integrity & performance.

✅ Analyze and adapt the existing MVC architecture to evolving project needs.

✅ Collaborate with frontend developers to define API contracts and troubleshoot integration issues.

✅ Write clean, maintainable code following Rails best practices.

✅ Debug performance bottlenecks, bugs, and scalability challenges.

✅ Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and agile development.

🔹 Required Skills & Qualifications

✅ 1 years of backend development experience (at least 1 year with Ruby on Rails).

✅ Strong understanding of Rails conventions, MVC architecture, and RESTful API development.

✅ MySQL expertise – schema design, migrations, and query optimization.

✅ Ability to navigate and extend an existing Rails application.

✅ Experience designing APIs for frontend consumption (JSON responses, status codes).

✅ Comfort with Git for version control and team collaboration.

✅ Strong communication and teamwork skills.

✅ Familiarity with AI tools to assist in development.

🌟 Bonus Skills (Preferred but not required)

✨ Testing: RSpec or Minitest for reliable, maintainable code.

✨ Performance Optimization: Profiling tools like New Relic for API efficiency.

✨ DevOps Knowledge: Deployment pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) & server management.

✨ Security Best Practices: OWASP Top 10, secure authentication.

✨ Frontend Awareness: Basic understanding of Flutter/React to align API outputs.

✨ Caching: Redis, Memcached to improve response times.

✨ GraphQL & Background Jobs: Sidekiq, Delayed Job for async processing.

🎁 What We Offer

🔥 Equity opportunities in JustLanded

🔥 Work on a greenfield project with cutting-edge technology

🔥 The opportunity to grow into advanced roles as we scale

🚀 Ready to be part of an exciting startup journey? Apply now and build the future of travel with us!

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