Ruby on Rails Engineer (Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)

About the role

We are actively seeking a Full Stack Engineer with strong Ruby on Rails experience to support a federal identity and authentication platform. In this role, you’ll work closely with product managers, security specialists, privacy experts, and federal stakeholders to build and enhance secure, cloud-native applications that support authentication, identity verification, and partner experiences. You’ll contribute to both backend and frontend development while helping deliver reliable, accessible, and secure digital services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack features using Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript technologies.
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and service-oriented application architectures that support secure identity and authentication services.
• Develop accessible, standards-compliant user interfaces while adhering to Section 508 and WCAG accessibility requirements.
• Build, deploy, and support cloud-native applications within AWS environments.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production applications using AWS services including CloudWatch and RDS.
• Participate in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using tools such as GitHub Actions and Terraform.
• Participate in on-call and deployment rotations, providing incident response support during business hours.
• Collaborate closely with product, security, privacy, and federal stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
• Communicate proactively with teammates and clients, contributing to a collaborative, solutions-oriented engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing full-stack applications using Ruby on Rails.
• Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, domain modeling, and service-oriented or modular application architecture.
• Experience developing frontend applications using JavaScript and React.
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices, including Section 508 and WCAG compliance.
• Experience working with AWS services, including RDS (Postgres) and CloudWatch.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and GitHub Actions (or similar CI platforms).
• Ability to support production applications through on-call rotations and incident response.
• Experience collaborating effectively across engineering, product, security, and client teams.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• Ability to obtain and maintain public trust clearance.

Preferred Experience

• Experience implementing authentication and authorization protocols including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
• Experience with identity proofing, document verification, fraud detection, risk-based authentication, or vendor identity verification integrations.
• Familiarity with NIST Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63-3), including Identity Assurance Levels (IAL), Authenticator Assurance Levels (AAL), and Federation Assurance Levels (FAL).
• Experience supporting federal digital identity, authentication, or highly regulated government systems.

Skills and Competencies

• Analytical Thinking: The ability to observe and interpret information, break down complex problems into parts, identify patterns/relationships and draw logical conclusions to develop effective solutions.
• Synthetic Thinking: The ability to combine different ideas, information, or concepts to create a new, complex understanding or solution by integrating disparate elements into a new, meaningful whole.
• Adaptability: Comfort with change, flexibility in the face of shifting demands and resilience to setbacks.
• Ownership & Accountability: Committed to taking responsibility for outcomes, ensuring that all commitments are met with a focus on enhancing service delivery.
• Consultative Advising: Identifies and articulates client challenges, scopes projects and aligns recommendations to business goals and client expectations.
• Communicating with Influence: Capable of crafting and delivering clear, persuasive messages that integrate data insights and structured narratives, tailored to the strategic needs of diverse audiences to drive effective decision-making.
• Environmental Awareness: Maintains awareness of external dynamics, power structures within client environments as well as regulatory trends and contract requirements that influence service delivery.

Benefits

• Life at Fearless: We’re a digital integration consultancy on a mission to build a better tomorrow. At Fearless, we combine technology, people, and organizational development to solve meaningful problems. Through iterative development, we deliver smart, user-friendly solutions that make tech work better—for everyone. But great tech is just part of the story. What really makes us Fearless is our Purple Culture. What Makes Us Purple? Being Purple Means You Are valued as a whole person—not just a job title Get matched with work that plays to your strengths and passions Are supported by coaches, not micromanagers Have the autonomy and clarity to make decisions and drive impact Join a community that celebrates equity, curiosity, and innovation Do work that matters—every day We believe in flexibility, growth, and balance. Our benefits and culture are designed to support you in doing your best work—while making space for what matters to you outside of it. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Fearless, we’re building a workplace that welcomes and respects everyone—across race, gender, age, religion, identity, background, and ability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.