Senior Software Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Content Advantage Group in Costa Mesa is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to take features from concept to production. You’ll work on Ruby-based stacks, learn the Rust tool needs, and help migrate services to cloud-native architectures.

Relaxed yet rigorous, this role emphasizes production reliability, collaboration with users in Costa Mesa, and a flexible contract schedule in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with Ruby and Rails or similar Ruby stacks.
• Proven problem-solving and debugging skills in production systems.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly.

Responsibilities

• Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Costa Mesa, CA production without dropping the baton.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and RabbitMQ libraries.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Flexibility-based applications.
• Sit with technology users in Costa Mesa to learn what the Rust tool really needs.
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Ruby acceptance criteria.
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture.
• Read Ruby stack traces and trace bugs to their root causes.
• Catch RabbitMQ race conditions that surface during Costa Mesa peak traffic.

Skills

Ruby

Rust

Troubleshooting

Tools

RabbitMQ

Job description

The phrase "it works on my machine" makes you wince, which is exactly why you'd make a great Senior Software Engineer here in Costa Mesa. Strip away the buzzwords and here's the deal — $132,000 - $201,000, contract hours, and a technology team at Content Advantage Group that actually hands you the keys.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Costa Mesa, CA production without dropping the baton
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and RabbitMQ libraries
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Flexibility-based applications
• Sit with technology users in Costa Mesa to learn what the Rust tool really needs
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Ruby acceptance criteria
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Read the Ruby stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Catch the RabbitMQ race conditions that only surface under Costa Mesa peak traffic

What You'll Bring

• A CA work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• A bias toward asking the dumb question before the expensive mistake
• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• Comfort with the contract cadence of a Costa Mesa-based operation
• Fluency in Ruby earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial
• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions

Content Advantage Group is the human-first Costa Mesa company that turned a niche technology obsession into something the whole CA now uses. We assume good intent first and ask clarifying questions second, which keeps the detail-focused days drama-free.

We answer the money question first with $132,000 - $201,000, then keep going with growth budgets, mentorship, and a flexible contract schedule.

The req cycled to active again moments ago for the Costa Mesa office.