We're looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) to provide technical leadership across five product teams, working on backend systems and architecture, and influencing long-term technical strategy.
Requirements
- Extensive professional experience building and leading software systems (typically 15+ years, but we value impact over years)
- Deep, hands-on proficiency in Ruby on Rails (minimum 7 years)
- Strong object-oriented programming fundamentals and backend system design
- Experience designing and operating systems using PostgreSQL and REST APIs in high-traffic production environments
- Familiarity with cloud-hosted infrastructure, including AWS
- Strong independent judgment and the ability to navigate complex, ambiguous problems proactively, not reactively
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and empathetically to a wide range of audiences, including product managers, designers, and non-technical partners
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions across teams
- You share context freely, create clarity, and build trust — hoarding information is a non-starter here
- You live and work permanently in the U.S. (We're not set up to hire outside the U.S.)
Benefits
- Salaried position
- Meaningful equity
- Other benefits