Senior Backend Engineer

Fieldwire by Hilti

Senior Backend Engineer developing core platform features and services for Fieldwire. Working with a skilled team on improving product and craft in a fully remote role.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $195,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDockerRubyRuby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain our production services at scale
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack to deliver an amazing user experience
Develop seamless integrations between Fieldwire and external services and partners to allow our customers to get the most out of our platform
Lead technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions for the team
Leverage your senior experience to mentor other engineers on best practices
Improve Fieldwire’s engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Release a rapidly growing API while ensuring 100% backward compatibility
Build services with efficient auto-scaling to handle both peak and non-peak loads
Architect end to end systems to enable syncing large volumes of data in real time

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
5+ years of production web application experience
Expert at modern web application development and relational databases
Writing clean, well-tested, and modular code that you know your colleagues can also own, understand, and maintain
Deep understanding of algorithms and data structures
Experience with Ruby on Rails and its ecosystem
Previously have worked with high-traffic web applications and services
Well-versed with Docker and containerization
Familiarity with AWS

Benefits

Comp & perks

Corporate bonus that can range up to 30%

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Hard Skills & Tools

web application developmentrelational databasesalgorithmsdata structuresRuby on RailsDockercontainerizationAPI developmentauto-scalingdata syncing

Soft Skills

mentoringtechnical architecturebest practicesproblem-solvingcommunication

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer Science