Staff Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) - Core Experience
Spanning every time zone in the United States. You live and work permanently in the U.S.Full-TimeStaff
Salary190000 - 210000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLRuby on RailsRESTful APIsDatadog
Requirements
- Extensive professional experience building and leading software systems (typically 15+ years, but we value impact over years).
- Deep, hands-on proficiency in Ruby on Rails (minimum 7 years)
- Strong object-oriented programming fundamentals and backend system design.
- Experience designing and operating systems using PostgreSQL and REST APIs in high-traffic production environments.
- Familiarity with cloud-hosted infrastructure, including AWS.
- Strong independent judgment and the ability to navigate complex, ambiguous problems proactively, not reactively.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and empathetically to a wide range of audiences, including product managers, designers, and non-technical partners.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions across teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across five Core product teams, serving as the primary backend staff engineer for this area of the product.
- Float across teams where support is needed: stepping in on high-priority projects, unblocking engineers, and ensuring work gets over the line without dropping the thread on your broader responsibilities.
- Design, evolve, and support backend systems and architecture primarily in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, REST, and related technologies, with a focus on performance and reliability at scale.
- Get ahead of technical problems — proactively identifying, forecasting, and mitigating risk before it becomes someone else's emergency.
- Ensure strong observability across Core systems, including Datadog dashboards, monitoring, and alerting.
- Influence long-term technical strategy, balancing short-term delivery with platform health, scalability, and sustainability.
- Create clarity around technical decisions, trade-offs, and direction in ambiguous or high-impact situations.
- Set and uphold high standards for code quality, security, privacy, observability, and documentation through direct contribution, review, and mentorship.
- Mentor senior backend engineers and, over time, help frontend-focused engineers build stronger Ruby on Rails skills.
- Act as a force multiplier, enabling teams and individuals without overshadowing or sidelining others.
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