Ruby Backend Software Engineer

Candidates must be located 50‑100 miles from one of the following locations:

• Morristown, NJ
• Atlanta, GA
• St Petersburg, FL
• St Louis, MO

Our ideal candidate is a Ruby Backend Software Engineer (2‑3 years) with experience building scalable production applications, working with large data sets, and owning the entire development lifecycle. You will need to be a team player while collaborating closely with our product managers to enhance our mature, complex product. You will get to work with Angular, Ruby, AWS, and other technologies.

We offer comprehensive onboarding, career guidance, a competitive salary, a remote‑friendly workspace, and continuing education support. We follow an Agile methodology in small software teams. This is an amazing opportunity for a hands‑on, motivated Software Engineer who can define and implement new and challenging technical projects.

• Write easily maintainable, extendable, and understandable code that adheres to software engineering design principles.
• Create and maintain our APIs.
• Develop new full‑stack features to improve our products.
• Support and enhance current systems.
• Debug and optimize code.
• Support and develop comprehensive documentation and tests.
• Build tooling to improve our operational efficiency.
• Develop the frontend experience using Angular.
• Create and maintain our backend architecture.
• Plan and maintain the product long term.
• Perform code reviews.
• Collaborate with product to deliver on the roadmap.

• 2‑3 years of backend development experience in Ruby.
• Solid understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Understanding of building distributed high‑volume services in Ruby.
• Knowledge of development best practices (agile methodologies, code reviews, backend testing frameworks).
• Experience in backend architecture.
• Experience with or understanding of front‑end development, particularly Angular, to effectively collaborate on full‑stack features.
• Experience working with AWS.
• Knowledge of API architecture development and optimization.
• Solid understanding of relational databases like Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Understanding of Apache Solr or willingness to learn.
• Exposure to queueing systems such as Rabbit
  
  MQ or willingness to learn.
• Experience contributing to products in a production environment (product lifecycle, sticking to release schedules, etc.).

• Frameworks:
  Angular, Ruby on Rails