Staff Engineer - Full Stack, Ruby on Rails

Caribou

full-time

Posted on: 8/21/2025

Location: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $170,000 - $210,000 per year

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DNSJavaScriptNode.jsReactRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript

About the role

Work with other Staff engineers and leadership to improve our code, striving for flexibility and agility in the face of expanding and changing business requirements
Aid in work breakdown and agile trade offs in our scrum process, efficiently and effectively delivering great software sprint by sprint
Participate as a non-manager leader engaged with leadership on planning and partner business development discussions
Partner with Product Owners to understand the market and business context for your product, participating in a collaborative environment for product design and evolution
Mentor and coach the engineers on your team to expand their technical skills
Play a leadership role in defining and evolving how Engineering works at Caribou

Prior work leading engineers maintaining and improving a Ruby on Rails monolith
Customer-focused engineers with an understanding of and passion for well-crafted software
Driven, life-long learners committed to expanding their skills in both leadership and engineering
Full-stack understanding of production software systems from hosts and HTML, to containers and caches, to databases and DNS, to runtimes and REST
Leaders with a commitment to bringing out the best in those around them as a measure of their success
Seasoned engineers with experience deploying, operating, and owning their products in production, troubleshooting and resolving production incidents