Ruby on Rails Developer
NicheHR Global · United States · 2 wk ago
RemoteRemoteInformation TechnologyFull-time
Essential Job Functions
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable web applications
- Leverage AI coding agents to accelerate product development and defect resolution
- Develop and maintain RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
- Develop asynchronous application processing using tools like Sidekiq
- Build and maintain responsive, high-performance React.js interfaces and reusable components
- Write and optimize SQL queries across PostgreSQL/MySQL databases
- Improve application reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability of large enterprise systems
- Create, and collaborate with other engineers on, technical specifications aligned against short-term and long-term Product roadmaps and enterprise architectural goals
- Use APM and observability tools to detect, diagnose, and fix performance bottlenecks
- Identify technical debt and drive practical solutions to pay down debt
- Own features and complex issues from product design through development, deployment, and monitoring
- Participate in all parts of the Product, Design, and Engineering processes building new features together in a collaborative pod-based environment
- Interact with internal customers using your contributions to the software platform in support of external customers
Leadership Opportunities
- Work with team members to identify, prioritize, and reduce technical debt and improve scalability and performance across the codebase
- Participate in architecture and technical design discussions across Product and Engineering
- Contribute to peer code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows
- Investigate and resolve outages with root-cause analysis and clear follow-up improvements
- Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices using AI-led practices
Requirements
- Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Professional Experience Requirements: 6+ years of experience building enterprise-level applications using Ruby on Rails, 3+ years working with or a related modern JavaScript frameworks, 3+ years working within a 30+ team member sized engineering team, 3+ years working 100% remote and a desire to continue working remotely, 3+ years developing and operating applications on AWS, 2+ years developing using AI coding agents including Claude Code or Codex
- Technical Skill Requirements: Experience working using Docker locally, Experience running enterprise-level production workload apps on AWS, Experience integrating with RESTful and GraphQL APIs, Experience writing raw SQL queries in a relational database, Experience building asynchronous background job process across multiple tools/frameworks, Experience with observability tools like Datadog, Sentry, or New Relic, Experience writing automated unit tests having > 60% code coverage, CI/CD development experience creating Github Actions, Experience modernizing legacy Ruby on Rails applications
- Team and Work Style Requirements: Experience working in product-led engineering organization, Experience working in a multi-team / pod-based engineering team, Works with an accountability and ownership mindset and calls out gaps where they exist, Experience working in high-volume transactional production environments, Exceptional at translating product requirement documents into detailed technical specifications, Work US Eastern Timezone hours between 9am - 5pm ET
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retail Plan (401k)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Work From Home