Lead Backend Engineer - Reliable Ruby Systems

Egreenservices; Loveland (CO); On-site; USD 133,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Career growth

Job summary

Retail Excellence Corp in Loveland, CO is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to keep our data platform fast and resilient. You will mentor teammates, own backend services in Ruby, and guide features from whiteboard to production in Loveland, CO.

You will collaborate with product, QA, and design to ship end-to-end, design observability, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across CO teams. A strong balance of technical excellence and pragmatic judgment is expected.

Qualifications

• Mentor or support lead teammates.
• Manage competing priorities under tight deadlines.
• Working knowledge of Kafka and transferable decision making.
• The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire.

Responsibilities

• Stand up observability so stakeholders see failures before customers.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Ruby.
• Carry features from whiteboard sketches to Loveland production.
• Partner with QA to define test coverage and catch regressions.
• Collaborate with product and design to ship features end-to-end.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across Colorado teams.
• Sketch Kafka sequence diagrams to clarify data flows.

Skills

Mentor teammates

Prioritization

Kafka knowledge

Decision making

Tools

Ruby

Kafka

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Retail Excellence Corp in Loveland, CO is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to keep our data platform fast and resilient. You will mentor teammates, own backend services in Ruby, and guide features from whiteboard to production in Loveland, CO.

You will collaborate with product, QA, and design to ship end-to-end, design observability, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across CO teams. A strong balance of technical excellence and pragmatic judgment is expected.