Senior Ruby on Rails Architect & Platform Lead

Acima; Draper (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health benefits

401(k) match

DTO (discretionary time off)

HSA with company contribution

Tuition reimbursement (STEM)

LinkedIn Learning access

On-site gym

Free car charging

Covered parking

Job summary

Upbound Group, Inc. in Draper, Utah, is seeking a Software Engineer IV specializing in Ruby on Rails to lead architectural decisions and ensure reliable, secure platform services across the stack.

You will guide a team of engineers, define standards, shape roadmaps with delivery managers, and drive high-throughput, fault-tolerant solutions while prioritizing observability and performance. The role emphasizes mentorship and cross-team collaboration in an AWS-based microservices environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems.
• Deep hands-on expertise in Ruby and Ruby on Rails, with strong knowledge of framework internals and high-concurrency scaling.
• Proven track record of architecting scalable distributed systems and resilient microservices.
• Advanced expertise in relational database architecture (PostgreSQL), and distributed caching/NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Serving as the primary technical guide across the software lifecycle, steering architecture, design decisions, and engineering execution.
• Architecting and implementing high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed solutions and APIs primarily using Ruby on Rails.
• Defining architectural standards, service boundaries, and non-functional requirements (high availability, fault tolerance, observability, sub-second latency).
• Partnering with delivery managers, product managers, architects, and engineering leadership to break down business requirements into technical roadmaps.
• Driving code health, automated testing rigor, and engineering discipline through code reviews and system architecture reviews.
• Leading root-cause analysis on production issues and performance bottlenecks, implementing long-term architectural remediations.
• Mentoring mid-level and senior engineers to raise the technical bar across the department.

Skills

Ruby & Rails

Distributed systems design

High concurrency

AWS cloud

CI/CD & DevOps

Mentoring

Security best practices

Communication

Elixir

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

NoSQL databases

Redis

AWS

Job description

Upbound Group, Inc. in Draper, Utah, is seeking a Software Engineer IV specializing in Ruby on Rails to lead architectural decisions and ensure reliable, secure platform services across the stack.

You will guide a team of engineers, define standards, shape roadmaps with delivery managers, and drive high-throughput, fault-tolerant solutions while prioritizing observability and performance. The role emphasizes mentorship and cross-team collaboration in an AWS-based microservices environment.