Senior Rails Backend Engineer - Observability (Flexible)

Energy Innovation Corp; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 102,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Wellness perks

Career development support

Job summary

Strategic Partners LLC, based in Nashville, TN, seeks an experienced backend engineer for a freelance role to build and refine scalable services using Ruby on Rails and MySQL, delivering features that delight users at every scale.

With 5+ years delivering robust systems, you thrive in calm leadership, mentor peers, and adapt to evolving business needs while maintaining a sharp focus on performance and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way.
• Calm under the unpretentious chaos a senior role tends to generate.
• A team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit.
• Flexibility to adapt your approach as business needs evolve.
• A point of view held loosely and defended well.

Responsibilities

• Push Presentation Skills changes safely behind flags so Nashville, TN rollbacks take seconds.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Ruby on Rails and MySQL.
• Mentor the senior cohort through their first real Ruby on Rails on-call at Strategic Partners LLC.
• Land Goal Setting performance wins Strategic Partners LLC can measure in TN retention numbers.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Goal Setting and MySQL.
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Strategic Partners LLC users feel every click.
• Stand up observability so Strategic Partners LLC sees failures before customers in TN do.

Skills

Point of view

Team player

Adaptability

Calm under pressure

Tools

Ruby on Rails

MySQL

Job description

Strategic Partners LLC, based in Nashville, TN, seeks an experienced backend engineer for a freelance role to build and refine scalable services using Ruby on Rails and MySQL, delivering features that delight users at every scale.

With 5+ years delivering robust systems, you thrive in calm leadership, mentor peers, and adapt to evolving business needs while maintaining a sharp focus on performance and observability.