Ruby Backend Software Engineer

Zelis; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive onboarding

Career guidance

Competitive salary

Remote-friendly workspace

Continuing education support

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Ruby Backend Software Engineer to enhance its products and collaborate with product managers. The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years of backend Ruby experience, solid knowledge of system design, and familiarity with AWS and Angular. This role offers a competitive salary and supports remote work.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of backend development experience in Ruby.
• Solid understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience working with AWS the backend architecture.
• Knowledge of API architecture development and optimization.
• Exposure to queueing systems.

Responsibilities

• Write maintainable and extendable code.
• Create and maintain APIs.
• Develop new full-stack features.
• Debug and optimize code.
• Perform code reviews.

Skills

Backend development in Ruby

Understanding of system design

Experience with AWS

Knowledge of relational databases

Debugging and code optimization

API development and optimization

Front-end development with Angular

Familiarity with Apache Solr

Experience with RabbitMQ

Job description

Candidates must be located 50‑100 miles from one of the following locations:

• Morristown, NJ
• Atlanta, GA
• St Petersburg, FL
• St Louis, MO

Our ideal candidate is a Ruby Backend Software Engineer (2‑3 years) with experience building scalable production applications, working with large data sets, and owning the entire development lifecycle. You will need to be a team player while collaborating closely with our product managers to enhance our mature, complex product. You will get to work with Angular, Ruby, AWS, and other technologies.

We offer comprehensive onboarding, career guidance, a competitive salary, a remote‑friendly workspace, and continuing education support. We follow an Agile methodology in small software teams. This is an amazing opportunity for a hands‑on, motivated Software Engineer who can define and implement new and challenging technical projects.

What You’ll Do

• Write easily maintainable, extendable, and understandable code that adheres to software engineering design principles.
• Create and maintain our APIs.
• Develop new full‑stack features to improve our products.
• Support and enhance current systems.
• Debug and optimize code.
• Support and develop comprehensive documentation and tests.
• Build tooling to improve our operational efficiency.
• Develop the frontend experience using Angular.
• Create and maintain our backend architecture.
• Plan and maintain the product long term.
• Perform code reviews.
• Collaborate with product to deliver on the roadmap.

What You’ll Bring to Zelis

• 2‑3 years of backend development experience in Ruby.
• Solid understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
• Understanding of building distributed high‑volume services in Ruby.
• Knowledge of development best practices (agile methodologies, code reviews, backend testing frameworks).
• Experience in backend architecture.
• Experience with or understanding of front‑end development, particularly Angular, to effectively collaborate on full‑stack features.
• Experience working with AWS.
• Knowledge of API architecture development and optimization.
• Solid understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL.
• Understanding of Apache Solr or willingness to learn.
• Exposure to queueing systems such as RabbitMQ or willingness to learn.
• Experience contributing to products in a production environment (product lifecycle, sticking to release schedules, etc.).

Our Stack

• Frameworks: Angular, Ruby on Rails