Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer - Remote, Impact & Mentorship

CompanyCam; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote-friendly team

Flexible work

Job summary

CompanyCam in the United States seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails/React) to join our remote-first engineering team. You’ll design, build, and evolve complex back-end services with Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, and REST, while collaborating across product and design.

You’ll mentor others, improve reliability, reduce technical debt, and help shape architecture. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of full-stack experience, strong communication, and a passion for scalable systems and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails (and/or other MVC frameworks) and relational databases, with demonstrated ability to design and optimize scalable data models and APIs.
• Familiarity with Redis, PostgreSQL, and Sidekiq in a production environment.
• Experience contributing across the full stack, including front-end, back-end, and data layers.
• Demonstrated experience in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to build, enhance, or optimize tools and features within products, driving innovation and improving user experience.
• Ability to handle complex tasks and ambiguous problems without guidance.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deliver complex, cross-cutting features and systems in Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, and REST, and occasionally in React and React Native.
• Lead efforts to address technical debt and system reliability, proactively identifying areas for refactoring or optimization.
• Influence and evolve the architecture and system design, anticipating future needs and driving long-term improvements across services and applications.
• Set and uphold high standards for code quality, testing coverage, and documentation, mentoring others to do the same.
• Drive improvements to internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems to enhance developer experience and system resilience.
• Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making, helping the team navigate trade-offs and align on best solutions.
• Act as a point of escalation for complex technical challenges, supporting team members in unblocking progress.
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers, shaping feature direction by identifying technical opportunities, risks, and trade-offs early in discovery.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Redis

Sidekiq

API design

Full-stack development

Mentoring

Communication

AI in products

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

React

React Native

Terraform

GraphQL

Job description

CompanyCam in the United States seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails/React) to join our remote-first engineering team. You’ll design, build, and evolve complex back-end services with Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, and REST, while collaborating across product and design.

You’ll mentor others, improve reliability, reduce technical debt, and help shape architecture. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of full-stack experience, strong communication, and a passion for scalable systems and