Ruby Developer

Egreenservices; Evanston (IL); On-site; USD 69,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship program

Growth opportunities

Job summary

ByteForge Labs is seeking a Ruby Developer in Evanston, IL. The role emphasizes delivering robust Ruby solutions with autonomy and mentorship, while contributing to a strategic Swift rewrite to reduce years of technical debt.

Salary ranges from $69,000 to $102,000 per year, with growth opportunities and flexible hours. The company emphasizes curiosity and cross-functional collaboration in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience writing Ruby applications or services.
• Comfort delivering clear, timely updates under pressure.
• Ability to ship code outlines for production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards.
• Lead the Swift rewrite to reduce technical debt.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across applications.
• Write resilience tests to catch regressions before release.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce debt over time.

Skills

Ruby

Swift

Webpack

Tools

Webpack

Job description

The Ruby Developer chair at ByteForge Labs is for builders, not bystanders, with $69,000 - $102,000 attached and Webpack on the daily menu. At $69,000 - $102,000, this Ruby Developer seat rewards 1+ years in technology with autonomy, mentorship, and a long runway for growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
• Ship the Swift quietly-ambitious rewrite that pays down years of ByteForge Labs technical debt
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Professionalism-based applications
• Write the Resilience integration tests that catch regressions before Evanston, IL ships them
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time

What You'll Bring

• The composure to deliver bad news early and clearly
• Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Evanston, IL
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments

ByteForge Labs is the kind of relentlessly-kind Evanston company that technology engineers leave their old jobs to join. Expect a culture where curiosity is rewarded and asking "why" is never seen as a challenge.

Beyond $69,000 - $102,000, ByteForge Labs invests in your growth, assigns you a mentor, and lets you flex hours across Evanston, IL as you need.

We are prioritizing Professionalism talent right now and reviewing resumes as they arrive.