Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

. Working with the team, design and implement new functionality based on product objectives and requirements.

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

GraphQLJavaScriptNode.jsReactRubyRuby on Rails

Key responsibilities & impact

Working with the team, design and implement new functionality based on product objectives and requirements.
Engage with the broader product engineering team to execute feature and functionality improvements, as well as resolve bugs and execute technical enhancements, that cross-cut large parts of our platform.
Strive to continually learn, improve technology skills, expand knowledge of the Open Commerce platform technologies, and gain increasing versatility across the breadth of our platform systems.
Expand API and business logic, and as needed write or revise customer-facing API documentation.
Work with infrastructure team to enable and enhance highly-available, performant, and well-instrumented backend applications and services that run in our customer environments at substantial scale.
Support operations and infrastructure teams for issue resolution on relevant Open Commerce applications or services running in production environments.

What you’ll need

3-5 years practical industry experience or equivalent building systems in Ruby on Rails
Experience building and maintaining backend APIs, including design, implementation, evolution, and maintenance
Proficiency using a variety of database technologies, both relational and non-relational
An ability to work in service-based architectures as well as well-factored Rails monolith applications
Ability to write clean code and the discipline to write effective automated tests to deliver high-quality system improvements
Excellent spoken and written communication skills
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent years of professional working experience
Experience with NodeJS and React
Experience in the retail and/or fuel & convenience industries
Experience working in distributed teams
Experience with Nest.js and/or GraphQL

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Hard Skills & Tools

Ruby on Railsbackend APIsdatabase technologiesservice-based architecturesautomated testsNodeJSReactNest.jsGraphQL

Soft Skills

communication skillsteam collaboration

Certifications

BS degree in Computer ScienceMS degree in Computer Science