Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Rails

Perchwell

full-time

Posted on: 9/4/2025

Location: New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $170,000 - $200,000 per year

Senior

AWSEC2ElasticSearchPostgresReactRubyRuby on Rails

About the role

Take part in all stages of the product development and deployment lifecycle
Develop new client-facing features and interfaces
Drive large, complex projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
Determine plans-of-attack on large projects and apply architectural standards
Tackle complex architecture challenges and mature the tech platform to scale
Help define a healthy and effective development culture balancing speed and future planning
Be an example for thorough, meaningful code reviews and mentor teammates
Take ownership over QA and release cycles as part of a you-build-it-you-run-it practice
Collaborate across the small team of developers and with other stakeholders

BS or MS in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent experience
6+ years of experience collaborating on software development projects
2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails
1+ year of full-time, professional work experience with React
Experience with front end development frameworks (preference for React and Backbone)
Past experience building complex software systems that have successfully been delivered to customers
Appreciation for (and the ability to create) simple and beautiful UI
Ability to question assumptions, experiment with new technologies, and develop reliable and maintainable systems
Authorized to work in the U.S. (candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.)
Comfortable working out of NYC HQ in SoHo at least 3 days/week
Bonus skills: Elasticsearch & PostgreSQL; Rails fundamentals (ActiveRecord/ActiveQuery, ActionController, ActionMailer); delayed job or other message queue implementations; CoffeeScript; AWS services (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, ECR, S3, Route53); Implementing RESTful/APIs and OData-compliant services; Working with omnichannel communication APIs (email, SMS, push notifications)