Professional experience building and maintaining production applications with Ruby on Rails and Vue.js or similar modern frontend frameworks. Strong understanding of authorization models, including role-based access control, attribute-based access control, and fine-grained permission patterns. Experience designing and optimizing high-scale backend systems, including PostgreSQL performance tuning, query optimization, and effective caching strategies. Familiarity with or interest in policy-based authorization systems and modern policy languages. Understanding of core security principles, including threat modeling, least-privilege access, and zero-trust architectures. Experience working with distributed systems and service-to-service communication in a cloud or multi-tenant environment. Demonstrated ability to own complex technical initiatives from design through production deployment in an asynchronous, remote setting. Strong collaboration and communication skills.