Remote Senior Ruby on Rails Backend Engineer

YouDevise; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

YouDevise is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own our backend systems built with Ruby on Rails. You’ll work closely with the founder and engineers to ship features, improve reliability, and scale the platform in a remote-first U.S. environment.

Preference for candidates in greater Boston MA and nearby states; authorization to work in the U.S. is required. You’ll design and implement backend services, improve scheduling and workflow pipelines, and contribute to architecture and

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping production systems in a startup or high-ownership environment.
• Strong backend experience with Ruby on Rails in production scenarios.
• Experience operating production systems with focus on performance, reliability, scalability and cost.
• Experience working with asynchronous systems and background job queues.
• Experience planning and implementing upgrades from legacy stacks and deploying changes safely.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain backend systems using Ruby on Rails within a product built with Ember, React, and React Native across multiple services.
• Own backend and infrastructure decisions, including performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
• Deploy, monitor, and scale applications on AWS, and maintain reliable background job infrastructure.
• Strengthen our test suite and developer workflows to increase confidence and speed of iteration.
• Collaborate closely with product, operations, and customers to ship and iterate quickly.
• Participate in shared customer support and engineering on-call rotations.
• Lead incident response for backend and infrastructure failures, restore service and drive root-cause fixes and prevention.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Backend architecture

Asynchronous systems

Legacy upgrades

Ember

React

React Native

Tools

AWS

Docker

Job description

YouDevise is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own our backend systems built with Ruby on Rails. You’ll work closely with the founder and engineers to ship features, improve reliability, and scale the platform in a remote-first U.S. environment.

Preference for candidates in greater Boston MA and nearby states; authorization to work in the U.S. is required. You’ll design and implement backend services, improve scheduling and workflow pipelines, and contribute to architecture and