Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Feature Team

Hire Art is a modern staffing platform for companies to source, employ, and manage contract workers. Our goal is to bring a turnkey, full‑stack software and service experience to an industry that is dominated by manual, cumbersome processes. We’re a ~75‑person company with an experienced engineering team and a product that serves real customers every day. Our typical customers are fast growing tech companies, such as those building autonomous vehicles and LLMs.

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Feature Team as we scale delivery capacity across our core platform. This role is for an experienced senior engineer; someone who can learn business context, collaborate with the product team, own a feature end‑to‑end, and raise the effectiveness of their team.

• Own large product features end‑to‑end, from shaping the approach through delivery
• Break down ambiguous problems into clear technical changes
• Work closely with product partners to clarify requirements and push back on scope
• Communicate clearly and often with teammates and manager regarding expectations for delivery
• Review code with an eye toward maintainability, not just correctness
• Write and maintain automated tests as a first‑class responsibility
• Improve legacy areas of the codebase incrementally and pragmatically
• Use AI tools (Copilot, Claude, etc.) to increase throughput while remaining fully accountable for the code you ship

• Backend: Ruby on Rails 8.1
• Frontend: React 18.3 (with some Stimulus / Turbo)
• Data stores: PostgreSQL, Redis
• Infrastructure: Heroku
• CI/CD: Git Hub Actions
• Architecture: Modular monolith, engineers work across the stack

• Own projects end‑to‑end
• Coordinate with teammates contributing to the same epic
• Make tradeoffs without perfect information
• Improve team velocity, not just personal output

Senior engineers are not expected to operate on autopilot or wait to be told exactly what to do. Compared to a mid‑level engineer, seniors proactively improve how work gets done. Compared to a staff engineer, seniors do less explicit culture reinforcement and organizational shaping.

• On‑call is very limited
• A dedicated on‑call engineer escalates to the feature team ~10% of the time
• Expected involvement in debugging production issues is low
• Expectations around testing and code quality are high

• Significant, real‑world Ruby on Rails experience
• Experience owning large features end‑to‑end in a product organization
• Strong practice of writing and maintaining automated tests
• Comfortable working closely with product managers and stakeholders
• Proven ability to work with remote teams while staying highly communicative and proactive
• 8–10 years of professional experience, or equivalent depth through impact

• Leading work involving Stimulus / Turbo
• Experience in entrepreneurial or early‑stage environments
• Strong end‑to‑end (E2E) testing practices
• ERP‑style data modeling or complex domain modeling
• Staffing, HR, or marketplace domain experience

• Read and discuss a small Rails application
• Identify impactful improvement opportunities
• Walk through a past project in depth and defend (or critique) technical decisions
• Be evaluated on clarity, humility, and impact—not just technical correctness

• Equity
• Dental, medical, and vision for yourself and your dependents
• Life and disability insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Work‑from‑home stipends, including workspace/home office set‑up, company supplied Apple laptop, phone/internet stipend
• Uncapped PTO as well as paid office holidays
• 401(K) through Fidelity

Hire Art values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which is why we are interested in every qualified candidate, regardless of their background, how they identify, or their inclusion in any protected class.