CompanyCam

Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails

CompanyCam

full-time

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Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $175,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSEC2ElasticSearchGraphQLMongoDBPostgresReactReact NativeRedisRubyRuby on RailsTerraform

About the role

  • Design, implement and deliver complex, cross-cutting features and systems in Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, and REST, and occasionally in React and React Native.
  • Lead efforts to address technical debt and system reliability, proactively identifying areas for refactoring or optimization.
  • Influence and evolve the architecture and system design, anticipating future needs and driving long-term improvements across services and applications.
  • Set and uphold high standards for code quality, testing coverage, and documentation, mentoring others to do the same.
  • Drive improvements to internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems to enhance developer experience and system resilience.
  • Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making, helping the team navigate trade-offs and align on best solutions.
  • Act as a point of escalation for complex technical challenges, supporting team members in unblocking progress.
  • Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers, shaping feature direction by identifying technical opportunities, risks, and trade-offs early in discovery.
  • Actively contribute to the evolution of the culture and processes of a growing engineering team, especially backend engineering discipline.

Requirements

  • Show up: Have the courage to do difficult but necessary work.
  • Grow up: Take ownership, learn continuously, and bring a growth mindset.
  • Do good: Treat your teammates and customers the way you'd want to be treated.
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience (Not all years of experience are created equal).
  • Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails (and/or other MVC frameworks) and relational databases, with demonstrated ability to design and optimize scalable data models and APIs.
  • Familiarity with Redis, PostgreSQL, and Sidekiq in a production environment.
  • Experience contributing across the full stack, including front-end, back-end, and data layers.
  • Demonstrated experience in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to build, enhance, or optimize tools and features within products.
  • Ability to handle complex tasks and ambiguous problems without guidance.
  • Understanding of business trade-offs and ability to effectively communicate the risks and benefits of various technical approaches.
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to lift up the team by providing mentorship and proactive feedback.
  • You live and work permanently in the U.S. (We’re not set up to hire outside the U.S.).
  • Nice-to-haves: AWS (S3, EC2, etc.), ElasticSearch, MongoDB, React, React Native, Terraform, GraphQL, experience integrating with large language models (OpenAI, Gemini)