Staff Software Engineer-Epion

About the role

Serves as a technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and operating scalable Ruby on Rails–based applications with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability. Shapes technical strategy across application development and site reliability practices, ensuring systems are observable, resilient, cost-efficient, and built to scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and well-tested applications using Ruby on Rails and complementary frontend technologies.
• Lead architecture and modernization efforts across monolith and microservice-based systems.
• Drive high standards for clean code, automated testing (unit, integration, contract, BDD), and documentation.
• Own services end-to-end with a DevOps mindset, including CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and production support.
• Improve system reliability through observability, performance tuning, instrumentation, and proactive monitoring.
• Lead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews, driving long-term systemic improvements.
• Define and evolve best practices around microservices, cloud architecture, and service scalability.
• Partner with DevOps and SRE to improve Kubernetes-based deployments and cloud infrastructure practices.
• Contribute to shared tooling, internal libraries, and developer productivity improvements.
• Serve as a technical decision-maker, resolving complex architectural challenges across multiple domains.
• Influence cross-team standards to create consistency and reduce friction across the engineering organization.
• Mentor engineers and elevate the organization’s engineering maturity through coaching and example.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• 2+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience in complex or large-scale environments.
• Strong expertise in relational databases (SQL), data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating microservices architectures.
• Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and deployment automation.
• Strong commitment to high test coverage and shift-left quality practices.
• Experience with observability tools (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting) and building highly observable systems.
• Experience operating systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Experience with containerization and Kubernetes-based deployments preferred.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and defensive programming.
• Drive architectural decisions that balance quality, scalability, reliability, cost, and speed.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, observability, and system design.
• Lead design reviews and guide technical direction across multiple teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the technical stack.
• Align engineering investments with business priorities and long-term product strategy.
• Raise the overall engineering bar through principled decision-making and consistency.
• Mentor Senior engineers in architecture, testing discipline, and operational excellence.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and high-quality engineering.
• Create clarity in ambiguous environments and help unblock teams.
• Share best practices across teams, building alignment and consistency.
• Partner effectively with Product, Design, DevOps, and executive stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor across functional areas.
• Clearly articulate architectural trade-offs, risks, and long-term implications.
• Provide complete, actionable, and timely technical feedback.
• Adapt complex technical topics for varied audiences with clarity and humility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience preferred.

Skills

• Specific Job Skills:
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• 2+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience in complex or large-scale environments.
• Strong expertise in relational databases (SQL), data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating microservices architectures.
• Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and deployment automation.
• Strong commitment to high test coverage and shift-left quality practices.
• Experience with observability tools (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting) and building highly observable systems.
• Experience operating systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Experience with containerization and Kubernetes-based deployments preferred.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices and defensive programming.
• Drive architectural decisions that balance quality, scalability, reliability, cost, and speed.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, observability, and system design.
• Lead design reviews and guide technical direction across multiple teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the technical stack.
• Align engineering investments with business priorities and long-term product strategy.
• Raise the overall engineering bar through principled decision-making and consistency.
• Mentor Senior engineers in architecture, testing discipline, and operational excellence.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and high-quality engineering.
• Create clarity in ambiguous environments and help unblock teams.
• Share best practices across teams, building alignment and consistency.
• Partner effectively with Product, Design, DevOps, and executive stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor across functional areas.
• Clearly articulate architectural trade-offs, risks, and long-term implications.
• Provide complete, actionable, and timely technical feedback.
• Adapt complex technical topics for varied audiences with clarity and humility.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Benefits

N/A

Company

RevSpring is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.