Senior Ruby Engineer (Rails)

Privy, LLC.; Toronto; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing automation company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enhance its Ruby and Rails team. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of backend experience, including 3 years with Ruby on Rails. Responsibilities include designing features for a multi-channel marketing platform and optimizing performance. This role offers competitive salary, equity, and benefits including unlimited PTO and covered health insurance. Remotely flexible.

Benefits

High autonomy

Challenging and interesting work

Competitive salary and equity

Covered health, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience, with at least 3 in Ruby on Rails.
• Solid understanding of data modeling and query optimization.
• Experience with background job processing.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features for the multi-channel marketing platform.
• Contribute to API and integration frameworks.
• Optimize application performance for high-volume data processing.

Skills

Backend development experience

Ruby on Rails

Data modeling

API design

Asynchronous development patterns

Communication skills

Collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

Sidekiq

Job description

About the Role

We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen our Ruby and Rails team. This role is well suited for someone at the senior boundary - either newly senior or an experienced mid-level engineer ready to level up. The ideal candidate is hungry to grow, ready to take ownership of complex features, and can work effectively as a technical partner to experienced senior and staff engineers.

This role will be building customer facing capabilities on our core marketing automation platform serving thousands of e-commerce businesses.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features and capabilities for Privy’s multi-channel marketing platform
• Contribute to API and integration framework enabling deep integration between Privy and partner applications.
• Develop triggers, filters, and actions for Privy’s Flow automation product.
• Partner with senior and staff engineers on system architecture and scaling decisions
• Optimize application performance for high-volume data processing, real-time messaging, and advanced real-time list segmentation
• Review code and help maintain a high bar for both the product and engineering standards
• Participate in the on-call rotation and incident response

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience with at least 3 working in a production Ruby on Rails codebase
• Solid understanding of data modeling and query optimization - PostgreSQL experience is a plus
• Experience with background job processing and strong understanding of async development patterns - Sidekiq experience is a plus
• Experience delivering, operating and maintaining features end-to-end in production
• Experience designing and implementing APIs in Rails and an understanding of RESTful principles
• Strong written communication skills and established habits communicating about your work asynchronously in writing
• Collaboration first mindset and proven ability to work independently

Benefits

• High autonomy with no career ceilings
• Challenging and interesting work
• Amazing colleagues
• Competitive salary and equity
• Work remotely
• Covered health, dental, and vision insurance
• Regular team events and off-sites
• Unlimited PTO and generous paid parental leave