Staff Rails Engineer — Remote Architect & Tech Leader

Bold Penguin; Dublin (OH); Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Flexible PTO

401(k) with company match

Employee Assistance Program

Parental Leave

Disability and Life Benefits

Job summary

Bold Penguin is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead and architect highly scalable solutions while contributing as a strong individual contributor. The role requires deep technology breadth and the ability to influence the engineering organization.

You will engage with product, design, and SRE teams to deliver high-complexity features, emphasize security and performance, and mentor junior engineers to grow the team’s capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional engineering experience.
• 5 years of Bold Penguin technologies.
• Experience in high-growth technology companies or startups.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical people.
• Experience building highly resilient, cloud-native applications.
• Full-stack expertise across modern web applications (front end, back end, infrastructure).
• Bonus: open-source contributions or speaking experience.

Responsibilities

• Engage across product teams to plan, coordinate, architect, and deliver high-complexity features.
• Ensure solutions emphasize security, performance, and fault tolerance.
• Be an expert in modern cloud architecture and DevOps concepts.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, SREs, and customers to build impactful products.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle from ideation to delivery.
• Mentor junior engineers in testing, CI, DRY/SOLID, and SDLC to support career growth.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Senior engineering experience

Cloud-native architectures

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Full-stack capability

Able to mentor juniors

Open-source contributions or speaking

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Bold Penguin is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead and architect highly scalable solutions while contributing as a strong individual contributor. The role requires deep technology breadth and the ability to influence the engineering organization.

You will engage with product, design, and SRE teams to deliver high-complexity features, emphasize security and performance, and mentor junior engineers to grow the team’s capabilities.