Backend QA Engineer (Ruby) - Flexible Hours & Mentorship

Energy Innovation Corp; Canton (OH); On-site; USD 68,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexibility

Job summary

Investment Strategies Group is seeking a backend engineer to build scalable Ruby services for high-load applications in Canton, OH. The role emphasizes freelance-style ownership and flexible hours, with Vue.js experience tangibly contributing to outcomes and architecture.

You will shape queries, optimize schemas, and drive reliability in collaboration with local teams. The ideal candidate brings a proven freelance delivery track record, strong communication, adaptability, and independent

Qualifications

• Demonstrated freelance delivery track record.
• Communicate early and trim later.
• Calm under changing client scope.
• Independent judgment and critical thinking.

Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput workloads.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Design GitLab CI APIs for Canton, OH teams.
• Apply Vue.js and adaptability to solve engineering challenges.
• Chase down the Unit Testing integration that silently drops events.
• Spike a Goal Setting proof of concept quickly when needed.

Skills

Strong communication

Critical thinking

Adaptability

Freelance delivery

Scope-management

Tools

Ruby

Vue.js

GitLab CI

Job description

Investment Strategies Group is seeking a backend engineer to build scalable Ruby services for high-load applications in Canton, OH. The role emphasizes freelance-style ownership and flexible hours, with Vue.js experience tangibly contributing to outcomes and architecture.

You will shape queries, optimize schemas, and drive reliability in collaboration with local teams. The ideal candidate brings a proven freelance delivery track record, strong communication, adaptability, and independent