Software Engineer - Application Platform

RemoteHunter; United States; On-site; USD 153,000 - 376,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement Benefits

Parental Leave

Mental Health

Paid Time Off

Flexible PTO

Recharge Days

Internet Reimbursement

Job summary

RemoteHunter is seeking a Software Engineer - Application Platform to design and maintain backend systems that power core product functions, focusing on reliability, velocity, and safe deployment practices across teams.

You’ll architect and evolve Ruby frameworks for REST APIs and asynchronous jobs, improve scalability and observability, mentor engineers, and partner with product and infrastructure squads to deliver robust, production-grade platforms at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building production systems in Ruby.
• Experience maintaining large Ruby applications supporting multiple teams.
• Designing reliable distributed systems at production scale.
• Ability to improve complex systems through architectural and tooling enhancements.
• Skilled in creating scalable abstractions and mentoring across teams.
• Experience with background-job or workflow systems.
• Familiarity with AWS services (SQS, EKS), Temporal, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Experience in improving test performance, local development, CI, or large-scale code migrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access.
• Improve availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems.
• Modernize a large Ruby codebase through architectural changes.
• Enhance backend development speed via improvements in tooling and workflows.
• Strengthen scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery of asynchronous job platforms.
• Collaborate with product engineers and infrastructure teams to address recurring issues.
• Establish pragmatic engineering practices including libraries, APIs, documentation, and code review.
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of high technical standards and shared ownership.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Ruby production systems

Distributed systems design

Mentoring across teams

Tools

Ruby

AWS SQS

AWS EKS

Temporal

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

1. About Our Client:

The organization operates in the software design and collaboration industry, addressing challenges in making design accessible and efficient for teams. It provides a platform enabling teams to collaboratively develop ideas into products, streamlining workflows and supporting real-time collaboration globally.

2. About the Opportunity:

The Software Engineer - Application Platform role focuses on developing and maintaining backend systems that support critical product functions. This position is responsible for enhancing the infrastructure that enables engineers to ship backend work quickly, safely, and reliably, improving engineering velocity and backend development processes.

3. Responsibilities:

• Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access
• Improve availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems
• Modernize a large Ruby codebase through architectural changes
• Enhance backend development speed via improvements in tooling and workflows
• Strengthen scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery of asynchronous job platforms
• Collaborate with product engineers and infrastructure teams to address recurring issues
• Establish pragmatic engineering practices including libraries, APIs, documentation, and code review
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of high technical standards and shared ownership

4. Requirements:

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years building production systems in Ruby
• Experience maintaining large Ruby applications supporting multiple teams
• Designing reliable distributed systems at production scale
• Ability to improve complex systems through architectural and tooling enhancements
• Skilled in creating scalable abstractions and mentoring across teams

Additional preferred qualifications:

• Experience with background-job or workflow systems
• Familiarity with AWS services (SQS, EKS), Temporal, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Experience in improving test performance, local development, CI, or large-scale code migrations

5. Pay Range and Compensation Package:

• Annual Base Salary Range: $153,000—$376,000 USD
• Compensation based on qualifications, skills, experience, impact, and location
• Equity and competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, retirement contributions, parental leave, mental health support, paid time off, and other benefits

6. Benefits & Perks:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement benefits with company contributions
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Parental leave and family planning support
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Paid time off including sick leave and holidays
• Flexible PTO options subject to manager approval
• Additional perks such as company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.