Senior Full Stack Developer

Job Description: Senior Full Stack Developer (Ruby on Rails + Vue.js)
Location: Pune, India (Onsite)
About PolicyAdvisor.com
PolicyAdvisor.com is a fast-growing InsurTech startup headquartered in Toronto, Canada, on a mission to simplify how consumers discover and purchase insurance. We are reimagining a legacy, complex industry by making insurance more transparent, accessible, and human-centric.
Backed by strong founders and significant seed funding, we are building a modern, scalable platform that will redefine insurance distribution globally. Our long-term vision extends beyond insurance purchase towards proactive protection, prevention, and on-demand coverage.
We are now expanding our engineering team in Pune to accelerate product innovation and scale our platform.

Role Overview
We are looking for a Full Stack Developer (Ruby on Rails + Vue.js) who thrives in early-stage startup environments and takes full ownership of features from design to production.
You will work closely with founders, product stakeholders, and engineers to build scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that directly impact end users.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working across the stack, takes pride in production systems, and is comfortable owning reliability, observability, and continuous improvement of services.

Key Responsibilities
Full Stack Development

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, robust full-stack features using Ruby on Rails for the backend and Vue 3 (Composition API) for the frontend.
• Leverage Vue 3 featuressuch as Composables for clean logic reuse, Script Setup syntax, and the Composition APIto build modular, maintainable UI components.
• Design, implement, and consume secure, highly performant RESTful APIs or GraphQL endpoints bridging Rails and Vue.
• State & Performance Management: Manage frontend state efficiently using Pinia (or Vuex) and optimize database schemas/queries in relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) to ensure peak performance across the entire stack.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimizing both backend query response times and frontend rendering/bundle sizes.
• Write clean, maintainable, testable, and efficient code across the stack
• Utilize GitLab for version control and collaborate on modern CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Hands-on experience of using AI coding platforms like Cursor / Claude Code / Co Pilot for architectural direction, broad designs, complex code reviews and refactoring is preferred

Production Ownership

• Own features end-to-end: design development deployment production monitoring
• Diagnose production issues, debug complex system behavior, and implement long-term fixes
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of systems

Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure

• Work with modern cloud infrastructure including Amazon Web Services (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
• Build and maintain containerized applications using Docker
• Work with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and release reliability

Observability & Reliability Engineering

• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting systems using tools like
  Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Sentry
• Improve system observability through logs, metrics, and tracing
• Identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance

Engineering Best Practices

• Follow and enforce best practices including:
• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Code reviews and refactoring
• Continuous integration and delivery
• Secure coding practices

• Maintain high code quality standards across the engineering team

Collaboration & Ownership

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, design, business)
• Participate in architectural discussions and technical decision-making
• Drive adoption of modern tools, frameworks, and engineering practices

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in full stack development
• Strong hands-on expertise in:
• Ruby on Rails
• Vue 3 (or similar modern frontend frameworks)

• Strong understanding of backend systems, APIs, and distributed architectures
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL)
• Strong debugging and production troubleshooting skills
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Strong understanding of security best practices (authentication, authorization, data protection)

Good to Have

• Experience with modern DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to microservices architecture
• Experience with AI-powered systems, including:
• LLM integrations
• RAG architectures
• Vector databases and agent-based systems

• Familiarity with tools like LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
• Experience working in early-stage startups or high-growth environments

What Were Looking For

• Strong ownership mindset, treats production like a personal responsibility
• Passion for building reliable, scalable, and elegant systems
• Comfort working in ambiguity and fast-moving environments
• Curious about new technologies and continuous learning
• Enjoys solving real-world product and engineering problems end-to-end

Why Join Us

• Work directly with founders in a high-impact role
• Build systems that scale globally from day one
• High ownership, high autonomy engineering culture
• Opportunity to shape core architecture and engineering practices
• Be part of a small but rapidly growing global product team