Evergreen: Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack (Ruby on Rails)

Pluribus Digital; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pluribus Digital is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack - Backend) to design, implement, and maintain secure, cloud-based applications for federal agencies. You will focus on backend Ruby on Rails while delivering robust frontend features with React, within small cross-functional teams.

You will participate in Agile ceremonies, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and ensure scalable, observable systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years professional software development experience.
• 4+ years professional Ruby on Rails development experience.
• Strong front-end development experience using React.
• Experience deploying applications through CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments like AWS CLI.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar).
• Fundamental understanding and ability to apply skills in Infrastructure, and Monitoring and Observability.
• Solid understanding of: Object Oriented Programming (OOP), RESTful API development, Test-driven or behavior-driven development.

Responsibilities

• Translate business goals into effective technical solutions using Ruby on Rails and modern web technologies.
• Design and implement responsive, accessible, user-facing features.
• Support the full product lifecycle: backlog refinement, development, testing, documentation, delivery.
• Participate in pair programming, code reviews, retrospectives, and Agile ceremonies.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, researchers, architects, and engineers.
• Work in a cloud-based Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery environment.
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs powering front-end experiences.
• Ensure applications are secure, scalable, and maintainable.
• Follow TDD and/or BDD methodologies; automated testing with Mocha, RSpec, Jasmine, or similar frameworks.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

React

CI/CD

AWS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

OOP

RESTful API

TDD/BDD

Tools

RSpec

Mocha

Jasmine

Job description

About Pluribus Digital

Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy - part technologists, part change agents, and all heart. We employ modern best practices in all that we do as we work to solve problems in public health, financial industry regulation, granting citizenship and asylum, and identity and access management.

About Pluribus Digital

Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy - part technologists, part change agents, and all heart. We employ modern best practices in all that we do as we work to solve problems in public health, financial industry regulation, granting citizenship and asylum, and identity and access management.

Role Description

Pluribus Digital is looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack - Backend) with Ruby on Rails proficiency to join our delivery team. You will work within small cross-functional teams to build and maintain secure, modern cloud-based applications for Federal agencies. This role emphasizes back-end implementation and front-end user-facing functionality while contributing across the full stack and the entire product lifecycle.

What You'll Do

• Translate business goals into effective technical solutions using Ruby on Rails and modern web technologies
• Design and implement responsive, accessible, user-facing features
• Support the full product lifecycle:
  • backlog refinement
  • development
  • testing
  • documentation
  • delivery
• Participate in pair programming, code reviews, retrospectives, and Agile ceremonies
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, researchers, architects, and engineers
• Work in a cloud-based Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery environment
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs powering front-end experiences
• Ensure applications are secure, scalable, and maintainable

Testing & Engineering Practices

• TDD and/or BDD methodologies
• Automated testing with tools such as: Mocha, RSpec, Jasmine, or similar frameworks
• Collaborative development practices including pair programming

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance
• Proven success working within an Agile development team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A bias towards action, comfort with ambiguity or changing priorities
• 8+ years professional software development experience
• 4+ years professional Ruby on Rails development experience
• Strong front-end development experience using React
• Experience deploying applications through CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments like AWS CLI
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar)
• Fundamental understanding and ability to apply skills in Infrastructure, and Monitoring and Observability
• Solid understanding of:
  • Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
  • RESTful API development
  • Test-driven or behavior-driven development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on government or public sector digital services
• Experience with Identity Verification and Authentication
• Accessibility-focused development practices
• Experience working closely with UX teams and research-driven design
• Modern front-end architecture and performance optimization experience

Why Pluribus May Be a Fit for You

• We are purpose driven. We support missions and products that serve the public good, and where our focused capabilities positively impact those mission outcomes. We bring a consultative approach to partner with our government customers and help them succeed as change makers.
• Pluribus is a calm company. We are knowledge workers. People do their best work when they are not rushed by artificial urgency or drained by a culture of facetime and workaholism. By having confidence in our people, we can get more done at better quality. When real crunch time comes, we are not already stretched to the limit.
• We are stronger because of the variety of skills and personal backgrounds of our team. We hold ourselves accountable with annual reporting on diversity statistics. As a woman owned and led company, diversity, equity, and inclusion is woven into all aspects of the organization.

Compensation & Benefits

Pluribus Digital offers a competitive salary that is determined at the time of offer. We are hiring for multiple levels under this job posting. Compensation will be based on experience and qualifications, with salary ranges aligned accordingly. If a candidate is a strong fit at a more junior or senior level to what is outlined here, we will assess them accordingly and apply the appropriate salary range during the hiring process. Salary is augmented with opportunity to earn annual bonus and medical/dental/vision benefits, PTO, company paid life insurance and a generous 401k match program. Details on benefits can be found here: https://pluribusdigital.com/content/join/benefits.

Pluribus Digital is an equal opportunity employer.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.