Senior Rails Architect - Remote, High-Impact Platforms

OhioX; Dublin (OH); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Flexible PTO

401(k) match

Employee Assistance

Parental leave

Disability & Life

Job summary

Bold Penguin is seeking a staff engineer to lead and architect highly scalable solutions while contributing as a strong individual contributor. You will bring broad technology acumen across multiple domains and help elevate the company’s software engineering discipline.

This fully remote role involves planning across product teams, ensuring security and performance, mentoring junior engineers, and driving the full SDLC from ideation through delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience.
• 5 years of Bold Penguin technologies.
• Experience in high-growth technology companies or startups.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical people.
• Experience building resilient, cloud-native applications.
• Full-stack expertise in modern web applications across tiers.
• Bonus: open-source contributions and/or speaking experience.
• Working experience in high-growth technology companies or startups is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, architect, and deliver high-complexity features.
• Ensure solutions are secure, performant, and fault-tolerant.
• Be an expert in modern cloud architecture, CI/CD, DevOps, and SRE.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, site-reliability engineers, and customers to build impactful products.
• Participate in the full SDLC from ideation to delivery.
• Mentor junior engineers in testing, CI, DRY/SOLID, SDLC, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Engineering experience

Bold Penguin tech

High-growth startups

Complex concepts

Cloud-native apps

Full-stack web

Open-source contributions

Speaking experience

Tools

Ruby on Rails

RESTful APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

DevOps

SRE

Job description

Bold Penguin is seeking a staff engineer to lead and architect highly scalable solutions while contributing as a strong individual contributor. You will bring broad technology acumen across multiple domains and help elevate the company’s software engineering discipline.

This fully remote role involves planning across product teams, ensuring security and performance, mentoring junior engineers, and driving the full SDLC from ideation through delivery.