Senior Backend Engineer - Rails | Remote, Flexible Hours, PTO

Devlane; Bogotá; Remote; COP 188,816,000 - 283,224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary in USD

Remote work

25 days PTO per year

8-hour workday with flexible hours

Welcome kit

High-end hardware

English classes & online courses

Contribution bonuses

Job summary

Devlane is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend architecture for a Shopify-centric e-commerce brand. You will design and maintain robust APIs, internal tools, and critical third-party integrations while ensuring scalability during high-traffic periods.

You'll work with a small, collaborative team across Latin America, embracing flexible hours and a 100% remote setup. The role rewards strong engineering fundamentals, proactive debugging, and a bias for delivering high-visibility

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Ruby on Rails or Python (Django/Flask).
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and Shopify APIs.
• Solid background with MySQL databases.
• Familiar with frontend basics (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for internal tools.

Responsibilities

• Own backend architecture, internal tooling, and key integrations.
• Ensure reliability and performance of e-commerce, retail, and logistics systems.
• Architect robust API connections and manage platform stability.
• Collaborate with a small engineering team to deliver high-visibility impact.

Skills

Backend development

Ruby on Rails

Python (Django/Flask)

API integrations

MySQL

HTML/CSS/ JS basics

Debugging

Tools

Shopify API

Job description

Devlane is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own backend architecture for a Shopify-centric e-commerce brand. You will design and maintain robust APIs, internal tools, and critical third-party integrations while ensuring scalability during high-traffic periods.

You'll work with a small, collaborative team across Latin America, embracing flexible hours and a 100% remote setup. The role rewards strong engineering fundamentals, proactive debugging, and a bias for delivering high-visibility