Senior Ruby Engineer

What You'll Do

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend systems to power our e-commerce experience
• Build and maintain interfaces that support our frontend, mobile, and third-party integrations
• Architect systems for membership access, catalog management, checkout, order fulfillment, and payments
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and data teams to deliver features that elevate the user experience
• Own backend services end-to-end, from design to deployment and monitoring
• Contribute to best practices in code quality, testing, reliability, and observability
• Help define our backend architecture and make strategic technical decisions as we scale
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence and collaboration

Who You Are

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems in production environments
• 4+ years leading Ruby cloud stack teams as a Principal Engineer/Architect
• Very familiar with the Ruby object model - eigenclasses, method dispatch, method_missing, send, and all variable types
• Expert skills with Ruby idiomatic patterns, terse styling, metaprogramming and be able to create macros, DSLs, etc
• Proficient in building APIs and distributed services using Ruby
• Expert knowledge of proper data model design for e-commerce concerns and understand how to handle locking sensitive resources such as a credit card charge and concepts such as state machines
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, ECS, CodeBuild) and containerization (Docker)
• Strong understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithmic principles
• Comfortable working in high-growth, early-stage environments—bias toward action and strong product sense are key
• A collaborative teammate who communicates clearly and is excited to shape the future of a luxury tech brand

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems in production environments
• Genuine Rubyist having written custom DSLs and/or contributed to a major Ruby gem with the deepest knowledge of how to utilize Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities for maximal terse and DSL-centric applications
• High familiarity with excellent microservices software design - using software DSLs over cloud deployed solutions - across dozens of models, concerns, and integrations
• Experience with the specific challenges of concurrency, inventory management/reservation, currency/price management, and third party API integration system designs - push, pull, effective normalization, etc
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and familiarity with data modeling and performance optimization
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience developing and deploying GraphQL and RESTful API interfaces
• Experience developing multi tenant systems, relating to concerns of access control, reporting, and authorization/authentication
• Strong understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithmic principles
• Comfortable working in high-growth, early-stage environments—bias toward action and strong product sense are key
• A collaborative teammate who communicates clearly and is excited to shape the future of a luxury tech brand

Benefits

• Opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of the company
• Collaborative and innovative work environment
• Career growth opportunities in a fast-growing organisation

Let's build something people talk about. Together.