# Software Engineer II

**Company:** [Vibes](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vibes)
**Location:** Chicago, IL
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $100k – $125k/yr
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, AWS Lambda, SQS, S3, Rds, CloudWatch, Terraform, Git, REST APIs, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-06-10

> Full stack Software Engineer II with backend emphasis building and maintaining cloud-based applications using Ruby on Rails, AWS, and Terraform. Requires 1-3 years experience and hybrid work in Chicago.

## Job Description

## Primary Responsibilities

### Feature development with guidance
- Build and extend features across backend services and admin applications, working from well-defined tickets with senior engineer support
- Implement data models, API endpoints, and lightweight frontend components in a server-rendered context
- Write clean, tested code and participate in MR-based code review as both author and reviewer

### Infrastructure and deployment
- Make targeted infrastructure changes within established Terraform module patterns like adjusting variables, modifying resource configurations, and promoting changes across environments
- Participate in CI/CD pipeline workflows and understand how infrastructure and application releases interact across dependent services

### Operational work
- Write scripts to initialize, migrate, and transform data across relational and NoSQL data stores
- Investigate production issues using cloud-native observability tools (logs, metrics, and distributed tracing) escalating when appropriate and building diagnostic skills over time

### Team practices
- Integrate with third-party APIs and internal platform services, building familiarity with the mobile marketing domain
- Read and contribute to architectural documentation as you build context on the system

## Required Qualifications
- 1–3 years of professional software engineering experience
- Proficiency in at least one backend language with object-oriented or functional foundations (Ruby ideal; Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, Elixir transfer well)
- Comfort with relational databases: writing queries, understanding joins, and working with migrations (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Familiarity with REST APIs: consuming them, understanding request/response patterns, and debugging integration issues
- Hands-on AWS experience with core services: Lambda, SQS, S3, RDS, and CloudWatch
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code concepts, ideally Terraform
- Git-based workflow: branching, pull/merge requests, resolving conflicts
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across the full stack
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for learning and staying updated on emerging technologies
- Dedication to delivering high-quality solutions
- Ability and willingness to travel to Vibes’ downtown Chicago, IL office several times a month
- Authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship

## Nice to Have
- Any Rails or Sinatra experience
- Terraform module authoring or multi-environment workspace experience
- DynamoDB or other NoSQL data modeling
- Stimulus.js or any server-rendered frontend framework
- GitLab CI experience

## Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation range: $100,000 to $125,000
- Full slate of benefits: competitive salaries, options, medical, dental and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, 11 paid holidays, flexible vacation, summer Fridays, Winter Holiday break, commuter benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, and a paid parental leave program

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