Remote Backend Engineer – Platform & API (Ruby)

Triwill Group; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, and vision

Parental leave

Mental health benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Figma is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join a production Ruby-focused team that powers REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, and workflow orchestration. You’ll shape backend foundations, improve reliability, and drive architectural evolution across a large Ruby codebase.

You don’t need to be a Ruby language specialist, but you should enjoy building for other engineers, making tradeoffs, and creating durable platform tooling that accelerates velocity across the company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production Ruby systems.
• Experience maintaining large Ruby applications and backend codebases that support multiple teams.
• Design reliable distributed systems at production scale, including APIs, background processing, testing, observability, and operations.
• Improve complex, established systems through architecture, modularization, migrations, performance, reliability, or developer tooling.
• Create scalable abstractions, navigate technical tradeoffs, and collaborate with and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access.
• Improve the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems that support critical product functionality.
• Modernize a large Ruby codebase through safe architectural changes, including moving REST APIs from Sinatra toward Rails and introducing stronger endpoint abstractions and type safety.
• Make backend development faster by improving hot reloading, local workflows, test infrastructure, CI reliability, debugging tools, and iteration speed.
• Strengthen the scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery capabilities of Figma’s asynchronous job platform.
• Partner with product engineers—your customers—and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and turn them into reusable platform capabilities.
• Establish pragmatic engineering practices through shared libraries, APIs, documentation, tooling, code review, and technical guidance.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to a culture of thoughtful execution, high technical standards, and shared ownership.

Skills

Ruby

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Backend development

Mentoring

Tools

AWS (SQS)

Kubernetes

Terraform

Temporal

Rails

Sinatra

Job description

Figma is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join a production Ruby-focused team that powers REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, and workflow orchestration. You’ll shape backend foundations, improve reliability, and drive architectural evolution across a large Ruby codebase.

You don’t need to be a Ruby language specialist, but you should enjoy building for other engineers, making tradeoffs, and creating durable platform tooling that accelerates velocity across the company.