Backend Engineer — Rails & Elasticsearch Expert (Fort Collins)

Filetwigbay; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 82,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Performance Solutions Inc. in Fort Collins, CO is seeking a Backend Developer to influence the technology roadmap, own backend features, and optimize Rails apps in a hands-on, collaborative environment.

You will work with data-driven teams and mentor junior contributors, ensuring robust backend systems that scale with the Fort Collins market. The role offers a salary range of $82,000 to $125,000, mentorship, and a comprehensive benefits suite.

Qualifications

• Portfolio or work samples demonstrating technology expertise.
• Willingness to revise strong opinions when data argues back.
• CO sensibility or genuine curiosity about the market.
• Active listening to make others feel heard.

Responsibilities

• Build Ansible self-service tools so Fort Collins teams stop filing tickets.
• Translate interpersonal skills metrics into daily leadership charts.
• Cut Ruby on Rails cold-start times to wake apps for CO users.
• Spot self-directed Google Cloud anti-pattern before it spreads.
• Own mid-level Elasticsearch workstream to unblock Fort Collins roadmap.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in postmortems.
• Pull Elasticsearch stack out of the CO region before migration deadline.
• Lead Rails design reviews to prevent costly mistakes.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Elasticsearch

Ruby

Ansible

Tools

Ansible

Google Cloud

Job description

Performance Solutions Inc. in Fort Collins, CO is seeking a Backend Developer to influence the technology roadmap, own backend features, and optimize Rails apps in a hands-on, collaborative environment.

You will work with data-driven teams and mentor junior contributors, ensuring robust backend systems that scale with the Fort Collins market. The role offers a salary range of $82,000 to $125,000, mentorship, and a comprehensive benefits suite.