# Software Engineer - Application Platform

**Company:** [Figma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/figma)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $153k – $376k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Ruby, REST APIs, Sinatra, Rails, Distributed Systems, Asynchronous Jobs, Workflow Orchestration, AWS, SQS, EKS, Temporal, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ci
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Build shared Ruby backend foundations for APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and developer tooling. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years with production Ruby systems, plus expertise in distributed systems and large codebases.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access.
- Improve the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems supporting critical product functionality.
- Modernize a large Ruby codebase through safe architectural changes, including migrating REST APIs from Sinatra toward Rails and introducing stronger endpoint abstractions and type safety.
- Improve hot reloading, local workflows, test infrastructure, CI reliability, debugging tools, and iteration speed.
- Strengthen the scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery capabilities of the asynchronous job platform.
- Partner with product engineers and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and build reusable platform capabilities.
- Establish engineering practices through shared libraries, APIs, documentation, tooling, code review, and technical guidance.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to thoughtful execution, high technical standards, and shared ownership.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production systems with Ruby.
- Experience building, maintaining, and evolving large Ruby applications and shared backend codebases supporting multiple engineering teams.
- Experience designing reliable distributed systems at production scale, including APIs, background processing, testing, observability, and operations.
- Experience improving complex established systems through architecture, modularization, migrations, performance, reliability, or developer tooling.
- Ability to create scalable abstractions, navigate technical tradeoffs, and collaborate with and mentor engineers across teams.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with background-job or workflow systems, including retries, idempotency, scheduling, backpressure, isolation, and failure recovery.
- Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Experience improving test performance, local development environments, CI systems, or large-scale code migrations.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary range: **$153,000–$376,000 USD**.
- Equity and benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; paid time off; paid sick leave; holidays; and other applicable leave benefits.
- Additional benefits may include recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, lifestyle spending accounts, and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

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