Senior Technical Lead - Ruby on Rails (Remote)

Capital Technology Group; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Competitive compensation package

401(k) with matching

Professional development budget

Job summary

Capital Technology Group seeks a Technical Lead specializing in Ruby and Ruby on Rails to guide the design, development, and modernization of mission-critical federal software systems. You will lead backend architecture, build scalable APIs, and drive secure delivery across enterprise environments.

You will mentor junior engineers, shape engineering standards, and collaborate with product, architecture, DevSecOps, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of professional software engineering experience in enterprise apps.
• Technical leadership, mentoring, code reviews, architecture ownership.
• Hands-on Ruby, RoR, React, Java, Spring Boot and REST APIs.
• Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and scalable apps.
• Cloud-native apps on AWS/Azure; CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and modernization of enterprise software systems for federal needs.
• Drive engineering efforts across architecture through deployment.
• Build scalable, secure backend apps using modern practices.
• Architect APIs with REST and GraphQL and guide technical decisions.
• Mentor engineers and enforce engineering standards and security.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, DevSecOps, and infra teams.

Skills

Senior technical leader

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

React

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

AWS

Azure

CI/CD

Job description

Capital Technology Group seeks a Technical Lead specializing in Ruby and Ruby on Rails to guide the design, development, and modernization of mission-critical federal software systems. You will lead backend architecture, build scalable APIs, and drive secure delivery across enterprise environments.

You will mentor junior engineers, shape engineering standards, and collaborate with product, architecture, DevSecOps, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated solutions.