Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Recurly; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Recurly, a leading subscription management platform, is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to enhance its marketing and customer engagement. This role involves building data-driven features using Ruby on Rails and Vue.js, fostering collaboration with cross-functional teams, and achieving agile delivery.

Benefits

Competitive benefits programs

Accommodations for candidates with disabilities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Expertise in Ruby on Rails and frontend proficiency with Vue.js.
• Understanding of customer engagement platforms and Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain applications across Ruby on Rails and Vue.js.
• Own features end-to-end and collaborate across teams.
• Maintain platform reliability through production support.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Vue.js

RESTful API design

Database knowledge

Agile development

Tools

AWS

Elasticsearch

Docker

Job description

About Recurly:

Recurly, Inc., a SaaS company, provides a versatile subscription management platform to manage the entire subscription lifecycle for market-leading brands worldwide. Subscription businesses such as Sling TV, FabFitFun, Cinemark and Fubo.tv depend on Recurly to harness the power of the subscription model and drive recurring revenue growth. Since its launch in 2009, Recurly has deployed subscription billing for thousands of companies across 55 countries. Our platform empowers billions of credit card transactions and has enabled customers to recover nearly $1.3 billion in revenue in 2024.

Recurly is backed by Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused private equity firm with over $10 billion in capital commitments. The partnership offers Recurly access to significant capital and resources to make continued investments in technology and platform innovation and expand our go-to-market initiatives.

We're looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to help shape the next generation of our marketing and customer engagement platform. In this role, you’ll build data-driven, customer-facing features and backend services that power real-time personalization, campaign delivery, and transaction support. Our stack includes Ruby on Rails on the backend and Vue.js on the frontend — and we value engineers who bring strong product instincts and a pragmatic mindset.This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys cross-functional collaboration, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and wants to make a direct impact in both the MarTech and Payments spaces.

Responsibilities

• Full-Stack Development:Build and maintain robust, secure, and scalable applications across our Ruby on Rails and Vue.js stack.
• Technical Execution: Own features end-to-end,from designing APIs and data models to implementing rich front-end experiences.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Design, and Customer Success teams to deliver user-centric solutions that drive business outcomes.
• Code Quality: Participate in code reviews, write automated tests, and champion engineering best practices.
• Architecture & Performance: Contribute to system architecture discussions and help optimize backend and frontend performance.
• Agile Delivery: Work in an agile, iterative environment to ship features frequently and respond quickly to changes in requirements or market needs.
• Incident Support: Help maintain platform reliability by participating in production support and troubleshooting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in full-stack development.
• Ruby on Rails expertise, including background jobs, ActiveRecord, and API development.
• Frontend proficiency with Vue.js or similar frameworks (e.g., React or Angular), including SPA architecture and component design.
• RESTful API design experience, including versioning, authentication, and integrations with third-party services.
• Strong database knowledge, particularly with Mysql or similar relational databases.
• Understanding of marketing or customer engagement platforms, such as campaign management, personalization engines, or A/B testing systems.
• Experience working with agile development methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across disciplines and explain complex ideas clearly.

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of front-end testing frameworks (e.g., Cypress,Jest).
• Experience with AWS, including deploying and scaling cloud-based applications.
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch for search or analytics functionality.
• Use of Redis for caching, background jobs, or session management.
• Exposure to Kafka or similar messaging systems in high-throughput environments.
• Familiarity with Docker for local development or production deployment.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Exposure to GDPR, CCPA, or similar data privacy regulations.
• Past work on B2B SaaS products or high-volume transaction systems.
• Expertise or professional experience in Go (Golang) and/or Node.js.

As a full-time employee, we offer competitive benefits programs and perks designed to fit your needs and the needs of your family.

Recurly is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law. Recurly is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know [e-mail]