Ruby Backend Engineer - Application Platform (Equity, PTO)

RemoteHunter; United States; On-site; USD 153,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Benefits

Parental Leave

Mental Health

Paid Time Off

Flexible PTO

Recharge Days

Internet Reimbursement

Job summary

RemoteHunter is seeking a Software Engineer - Application Platform to design and maintain backend systems that power core product functions, focusing on reliability, velocity, and safe deployment practices across teams.

You’ll architect and evolve Ruby frameworks for REST APIs and asynchronous jobs, improve scalability and observability, mentor engineers, and partner with product and infrastructure squads to deliver robust, production-grade platforms at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building production systems in Ruby.
• Experience maintaining large Ruby applications supporting multiple teams.
• Designing reliable distributed systems at production scale.
• Ability to improve complex systems through architectural and tooling enhancements.
• Skilled in creating scalable abstractions and mentoring across teams.
• Experience with background-job or workflow systems.
• Familiarity with AWS services (SQS, EKS), Temporal, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Experience in improving test performance, local development, CI, or large-scale code migrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access.
• Improve availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems.
• Modernize a large Ruby codebase through architectural changes.
• Enhance backend development speed via improvements in tooling and workflows.
• Strengthen scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery of asynchronous job platforms.
• Collaborate with product engineers and infrastructure teams to address recurring issues.
• Establish pragmatic engineering practices including libraries, APIs, documentation, and code review.
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of high technical standards and shared ownership.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Ruby production systems

Distributed systems design

Mentoring across teams

Tools

Ruby

AWS SQS

AWS EKS

Temporal

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

RemoteHunter is seeking a Software Engineer - Application Platform to design and maintain backend systems that power core product functions, focusing on reliability, velocity, and safe deployment practices across teams.

You’ll architect and evolve Ruby frameworks for REST APIs and asynchronous jobs, improve scalability and observability, mentor engineers, and partner with product and infrastructure squads to deliver robust, production-grade platforms at scale.