Senior Software Engineer: Ruby + JS/TS

South Geeks; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a skilled Software Developer to build scalable systems that enhance communication between schools and families. The role involves full-stack development, project leadership, and a focus on user needs. Ideal candidates will thrive in a collaborative environment and possess strong technical expertise in web development and cloud services.

Benefits

Long-term projects

100% remote work

PTO

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale web services and RESTful API development.
• Proven ability to lead projects and guide engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable systems for educators.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers.
• Collaborate with customers to define and ship new features.

Skills

Web development

Project leadership

Product focus

Customer focus

Tools

Ruby

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

MySQL

Postgres

AWS

Job description

Hi there :)

Thanks for checking in to find out about our open position. We´ll provide as much information as possible, but please feel free to reach us if you have further questions. We´ll be happy to see your application, even if there are skills you don't quite master!

About the Role

Schools and districts rely on our client to help families and educators communicate and partner to support their students, and we need you!

In this role, you’ll build and maintain scalable systems that deliver real value to educators. You’ll work across the stack—designing, coding, testing, deploying, and debugging—while continuously improving performance, security, and maintainability.

Beyond writing code, you'll lead projects, break down work, and guide other engineers, helping the team stay aligned and efficient. If you have a strong product and customer focus, thrive in a collaborative environment, and enjoy mentoring others, we’d love to hear from you!

What you need to succeed in this role

• Web development with large-scale services on Ruby/Python and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Service and application development with MySQL/Postgres
• Deploying and operating systems at scale on AWS/Aurora/RDS/SQS
• Proficiency with RESTful API development
• Familiarity with incremental, agile development processes, as well as CI/CD
• Experience leading projects, breaking down work, and guiding engineers to deliver impactful solutions
• A strong product and customer focus, ensuring that engineering efforts align with real user needs

If you get the job, you will have to:

• Partner closely with customers and Product Owners to define, build, and ship new features for educators on the platform.
• Partner closely with peers in engineering to constantly improve the cost, security, scalability, and maintainability of the platform
• Work across our ecosystem - web, service layer, database, message queues - to deliver value for our customers
• Operate our production systems at scale by identifying and fixing bugs, reviewing your peers’ code, and debugging systems when faults arise.
• Design, break down, release, and lead projects that serve the educators who rely on the platform every day.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to other engineers

About the Client

This position is for a client that's changing the way schools and parents communicate every day. Over 20,000 schools and 10 million parents across the U.S. utilize their platform to stay informed and involved from the way they prefer to be notified – email, text, voice, web, app, social – to the ways they can interact with schools – forms, sign-ups, payments, RSVPs, language translations, chat and more.

About Us

Here at Sout Geeks, we engage top-performance Software Developers from Latin America to join our clients' teams worldwide. We seek to generate a place of inspiration and growth where individuals can voice their opinions, feel cared for, heard, and valued. We promote an environment of personal and professional development and follow up individually on your needs and concerns. We want to create a space where everyone may be inspired and thrive!

What We Offer

• Long-term projects
• 100% remote work
• Payment in USD
• PTO

This position is available for LATAM residents only.