Ruby Developer

Best Buy; Pensacola (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Best Buy in Pensacola, FL is seeking a freelance Ruby Developer to deploy production code that reaches a massive audience. The senior seat is described at $90,000 - $121,000, with ownership that comes with six years of PostgreSQL experience.

You will carry a Spring Boot feature through code freeze, negotiate tradeoffs with product, and build resilience tooling to speed up the team while maintaining stability.

Qualifications

• 6 years of CI/CD practice.
• Hands-on engineering experience with scalable systems.
• Diplomacy to align stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses.

Responsibilities

• Carry a Spring Boot feature through code freeze without breaking stability.
• Negotiate Spring Boot tradeoffs with product when timelines collide.
• Build resilience tooling to speed up Pensacola engineers.
• Question the PostgreSQL pattern and propose cleaner alternatives.
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with Best Buy's growing user base.
• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements.
• Build AWS dashboards to provide numbers to the team.

Skills

CI/CD

Attention to detail

Diplomacy

Hands‑on engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Spring Boot

Job description

This freelance Ruby Developer position is your opportunity to deploy production code that reaches a massive audience. At Best Buy, $90,000 - $121,000 buys a senior seat, but 6 years of PostgreSQL buys you the ownership that comes with it.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry a detail-loving Spring Boot feature through code freeze without breaking Best Buy stability
• Negotiate Spring Boot tradeoffs with product when Best Buy timelines and reality collide
• Build the Resilience tooling that makes every other Pensacola engineer faster
• Question the mission-driven PostgreSQL pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with Best Buy's growing user base
• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively
• Build AWS dashboards so Best Buy's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers

What You'll Bring

• Real curiosity about why Best Buy customers do what they do
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
• 6 years of CI/CD práctica, plus a hunger for what's next
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses
• 5 years that taught you which corners can be cut
• Hands‑on technology experience that holds up to follow‑up questions

Best Buy has quietly become one of the most gently-demanding names in technology, all from a modest office in Pensacola, FL. At Best Buy you can challenge your skip-level's plan and still get a thank-you for it.

Start strong at $90,000 - $121,000, grow with a mentor, settle into benefits, and enjoy flexibility that finally fits Pensacola.

Refreshed minutes ago, this Ruby Developer req is wide open and taking applications.