Backend Ruby Developer: Ownership & Impact in Houston

Egreenservices; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 89,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Emerson, a Houston-based technology shop, is hiring a Ruby Developer who would rather delete code than add it. The role offers ownership of technology outcomes with a salary ranging from $89,000 to $127,000 per year and comprehensive health coverage in a Houston, TX environment.

Expect to drive backend work, integrate services, automate pipelines, and lead mid-level initiatives while maintaining a strong work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Mid-level mastery of Kotlin.
• Proven leadership experience guiding mid-level initiatives.
• Collaborator who makes mid-level reviews feel less like an exam.

Responsibilities

• Reproduce the team-oriented bug from the Houston field report, then make it impossible again.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Emerson stack.
• Replace the brittle Kotlin hack with a Redis solution that survives Houston scale.
• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines for faster release cycles.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Work-Life Balance and Kotlin.
• Ship the quick-to-ship Customer Service features that move Emerson's technology roadmap forward.
• Catch the empathy-led Kotlin regression in staging before it ever reaches Houston customers.

Skills

Kotlin

Leadership

Collaboration

3+ years experience

Job description

Emerson, a Houston-based technology shop, is hiring a Ruby Developer who would rather delete code than add it. The role offers ownership of technology outcomes with a salary ranging from $89,000 to $127,000 per year and comprehensive health coverage in a Houston, TX environment.

Expect to drive backend work, integrate services, automate pipelines, and lead mid-level initiatives while maintaining a strong work-life balance.