Enigneer III

envato-2; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home-office budget

Wellbeing and study support

Parental leave

Product access

Volunteer leave

Learning budgets

Job summary

envato-2 is seeking a backend-focused engineer to build and improve the systems behind a creative marketplace. You will own defined features from planning through production, ensuring reliability and maintainability.

You will pair with senior engineers, learn the platform, and contribute to engineering practices while exploring AI tools to enhance coding, testing, and review processes. A flexible, globally distributed team supports remote work.

Qualifications

• Must have backend development experience and focus on clean code and testing.
• Ability to investigate production issues and resolve problems.
• Willingness to own features from discussion to production and collaborate with others.

Responsibilities

• Deliver features and scoped projects through planning, implementation, and production release.
• Build backend software and learn the platform and user needs.
• Investigate production issues, fix underlying causes, and improve systems.
• Pair with engineers, give feedback, and contribute to engineering practices.
• Experiment with AI agents for coding, testing, and review with sound judgment.

Skills

Backend development

Testing and quality

Ownership

Troubleshooting

Tools

Ruby on Rails

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Buildkite

Datadog

Rollbar

Job description

Build and improve the systems behind a creative content marketplace, including the workflows that handle uploads, processing, metadata, storage, distribution, and human or AI-assisted review. Own defined features and projects from early discussions through production, contributing to systems that are reliable, well tested, and maintainable.

Responsibilities

• Deliver features and scoped projects through planning, implementation, and production release.
• Build backend software and learn the platform and the needs of its users.
• Investigate production issues, fix underlying causes, and improve affected systems.
• Pair with experienced engineers, take part in technical feedback, and contribute ideas for improving engineering practices.
• Experiment with AI agents for coding, testing, and review while applying independent judgment to their output.

Requirements

• Software development experience with strong backend capability.
• Interest in clean code, appropriate technical tradeoffs, and testing.
• Ability to investigate and resolve production problems.
• Willingness to take ownership, learn quickly, and collaborate with other engineers.
• Practical interest in AI tools, with the judgment to assess their results.

Nice to have

• Ruby on Rails experience or experience with a comparable framework.
• Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Buildkite, Datadog, Rollbar, or content-heavy systems.

Benefits and work setup

• Flexible working practices, with a global team.
• Benefits include a home-office budget, team connection and learning budgets, wellbeing and study support, volunteer leave, paid parental leave, product access, and the option to apply to work from another remote location for up to three months per year.