Backend Developer

Energy Innovation Corp; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Solutions Group in Seattle, WA is seeking a Backend Developer who treats latency budgets like personal commitments and uses Ruby on Rails for rapid prototyping.

You will pair with technology analysts, coordinate releases with remote teams, and optimize queries for high-throughput workloads across Seattle and beyond. Mentorship is built in, with a clear path to senior tech roles mapped, not vague.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a similar Backend Developer role.
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level initiatives.
• Empathy, strong communication, and positive presence.
• Discretion with sensitive information and professionalism.

Responsibilities

• Pair with technology analysts to align models with behavior.
• Translate napkin ideas into Rails prototypes.
• Coordinate releases with Seattle, WA and remote teams.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Lead design reviews to catch costly mistakes before they are built.
• Defend uptime and reliability during off-hours.
• Bridge cross-functional teams so the platform talks.
• Tune Angular queries to avoid timeouts.

Skills

Backend development

Leadership

Angular

Ruby on Rails

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Angular

Job description

We're hiring a Backend Developer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and React like a second language. Think of it less as a job and more as a $116,000 - $155,000 bet Retail Solutions Group is placing on your 5 years and your judgment.

Key Responsibilities

• Pair with technology analysts so Retail Solutions Group's Team Leadership models match real behavior
• Translate a napkin idea from Retail Solutions Group founders into a Ruby on Rails candidly-kind prototype
• Coordinate releases with stakeholders across Seattle, WA and remote teams
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Retail Solutions Group workloads
• Lead Team Leadership design reviews that catch the costly mistakes before Seattle, WA builds them
• Defend Retail Solutions Group uptime through the 2 a.m. Seattle pages nobody volunteers for
• Bridge Team Leadership and Cross-Functional Collaboration so the two halves of Retail Solutions Group's platform finally talk
• Tune Angular queries until the WA database stops timing out under load

What You'll Bring

• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
• Roughly 3+ years operating in a similar Backend Developer position
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level-level initiatives
• Professionalism, integrity, and discretion with sensitive information

At its core, Retail Solutions Group is a candor-rich bet that Seattle, WA can out-build anyone when it comes to RabbitMQ. You'll find a flat structure where the best argument wins, regardless of title.

Compensation lands at $116,000 - $155,000, mentorship is built in, and the path from here to senior technology work is mapped, not vague.

Confirmed active this hour for the Seattle, WA crew, no waiting list.