Senior Backend Engineer - Rails, Azure & Mentorship

Energy Innovation Corp; Farmington (NM); On-site; USD 108,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Technologies, based in Farmington, NM, seeks a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience to own a critical Rails rewrite and back-end services. You will turn on-call noise into meaningful alerts, prototype flexible Linux-based solutions, and mentor a lead cohort through Azure on-call duties.

The role emphasizes reliability, deep collaboration, and a bias for thoughtful questions before costly mistakes, with a compensation range of $108,000–$148,000 and a flexible schedule.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way.
• Bias toward asking the dumb question before the expensive mistake.
• Comfort being measured against a clear lead bar.
• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly.
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support lead teammates.
• Reliability that earns you the hard assignments.

Responsibilities

• Ship the Ruby on Rails self-directed rewrite that pays down years of technical debt.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Linux and Ruby on Rails.
• Turn Retail Technologies's Flask on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something.
• Translate a napkin idea from founders into a Linux genuinely-flexible prototype.
• Automate the manual Problem Solving chores that drain engineering hours.
• Own the Selenium subsystem that the team depends on.
• Mentor the lead cohort through their first real Microsoft Azure on-call at Retail Technologies.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Problem solving

Empathy

Teamwork

Communication

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Flask

Linux

Selenium

Azure

Job description

Retail Technologies, based in Farmington, NM, seeks a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience to own a critical Rails rewrite and back-end services. You will turn on-call noise into meaningful alerts, prototype flexible Linux-based solutions, and mentor a lead cohort through Azure on-call duties.

The role emphasizes reliability, deep collaboration, and a bias for thoughtful questions before costly mistakes, with a compensation range of $108,000–$148,000 and a flexible schedule.