Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

Sur Global

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer working on production Rails applications and features. Collaborating on design, testing, and deployment for customer-facing systems and integrations.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇲🇽 MexicoSenior💰 $5,000 - $7,000 per monthWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DNSGoRubyRuby on RailsSMTP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain features in a modern Rails codebase.
Own background and asynchronous workflows including retries, idempotency, throughput, and observability.
Model, query, and optimize data in a document-oriented datastore environment.
Build and maintain HTTP APIs and third-party integrations including webhooks, authentication, billing, and notifications.
Diagnose and resolve production issues in collaboration with product and support.
Improve system reliability, performance, and operational safety.
Contribute to long-term code health through refactoring, testing improvements, security practices, and thoughtful code review.

Requirements

What you’ll need

C1 English or equivalent
Senior-level, hands-on experience building and operating production Ruby on Rails applications.
Strong background in background job systems and asynchronous processing with real-world operational concerns.
Experience designing and querying document-oriented data models with attention to indexing and performance.
Experience building external-facing APIs with authentication, authorization, and rate limiting.
Strong testing discipline and experience diagnosing flaky or non-deterministic tests.
Security-minded approach to application design and production operations.
**Preferred Qualifications**
Experience working with high-growth startups.
Experience building products using LLMs or LLM-based agents. Ideally, using Langchain.
Experience training AI models: building, cleaning datasets, setting up training pipelines, and evaluation benchmarks.
Experience building code generation or editing solutions.
A team-player mentality with a history of influencing and improving development processes.
****Nice to Have: Email and Deliverability Domain**
Experience with Go
Practical understanding of email deliverability fundamentals including reputation, mailbox provider behavior, and bounce or deferral handling.
Familiarity with email authentication and DNS concepts including SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and MX or TXT records.
Understanding of SMTP mechanics such as handshakes, response codes, and safe retry strategies.
Experience identifying and handling low-quality or risky email data such as disposable, role-based, typo, or catch-all addresses.
Experience building safeguards around email data handling including redaction, privacy controls, and non-production send protections.
Comfort using AI-assisted development tools responsibly while maintaining strong engineering judgment, code quality, and test coverage.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Compensation: $5000 to $7000 USD/ monthly
PTO: Unlimited
Holidays: US or local

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Hard Skills & Tools

Ruby on Railsbackground job systemsasynchronous processingdocument-oriented data modelsHTTP APIsauthenticationauthorizationtesting disciplineLLMsGo

Soft Skills

team-player mentalityinfluencing development processescollaborationproblem-solvingcommunication