Senior Rails Engineer - AI EdTech (Remote)

Education Advanced, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Education Advanced, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer III to own significant parts of the Evaluation product. This remote role with core availability during US Central Time hours offers ownership across Rails app, AI-powered features, data integrations, and cloud infrastructure.

Expect onboarding, mentorship, and influence on product architecture. You will design, implement, and ship features end-to-end, build AI-assisted workflows, and ensure quality and security across the stack while guiding

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years building and operating production web applications with Ruby on Rails experience.
• Strong relational database skills (MySQL or similar) including schema design and migrations.
• Hands-on experience with automated tests in Rails (RSpec).
• Experience deploying and debugging apps in AWS with containers, CI/CD, and IaC.
• Secure web development practices (OWASP Top 10, auth, input validation, secrets).
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools in professional work beyond autocomplete.
• Ability to direct AI tools with clear specs, context, and tests.
• Comfort in a mature codebase and in mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, ship, and support features across the Evaluation application from concept to production.
• Develop AI-powered features by integrating LLMs into user workflows and designing prompts and safeguards.
• Maintain data integrations between Evaluation and other systems with a focus on reliability.
• Lead technical improvements and modernize parts of the application.
• Write clean, secure, maintainable code and strengthen automated testing practices.
• Operate in AWS using CI/CD and infrastructure as code; troubleshoot end-to-end.
• Ensure FERPA, state privacy, and WCAG accessibility requirements are met.
• Mentor teammates through code reviews and documentation.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

AWS

CI/CD

AI-powered features

Large language models (LLMs)

Security practices

Testing (RSpec)

Documentation

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field

Tools

MySQL

AWS containers

Terraform/Infra as code

Job description

Education Advanced, Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer III to own significant parts of the Evaluation product. This remote role with core availability during US Central Time hours offers ownership across Rails app, AI-powered features, data integrations, and cloud infrastructure.

Expect onboarding, mentorship, and influence on product architecture. You will design, implement, and ship features end-to-end, build AI-assisted workflows, and ensure quality and security across the stack while guiding