# Software Engineer, Backend

**Company:** [Folio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/folio)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Postgres, API Design, AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform, Elasticsearch, DevOps
**Posted:** 2025-06-04

> Build backend systems for B2B hospitality commerce using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and Postgres. Requires 8+ years experience in server-side tech, API design, DevOps, AWS, scalable financial systems, and search infrastructure like Elasticsearch.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build backend systems for B2B commerce in hospitality, focusing on hotels.
- Architect solutions for complex data-intensive systems.
- Implement DevOps practices, infrastructure automation, and cloud deployment.
- Optimize system scalability, performance, monitoring, and infrastructure as code.
- Develop software enabling money movement and digitizing paper-based processes.
- Handle data modeling, database optimization, and data integrity in financial systems.
- Build and maintain search infrastructure.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience as a senior contributor shipping great products.
- Backend specialist with deep expertise in **Ruby on Rails**, **Node.js**, **Postgres**, and API design.
- Solid object-oriented design and programming skills.
- Hands-on experience with **DevOps**, **AWS**, **Docker**, **CI/CD pipelines**, **Terraform**.
- Experience with system scalability, performance optimization, monitoring.
- Expertise in data modeling, database optimization, data integrity in financial systems.
- Experience building search infrastructure (**Elasticsearch** or similar).
- Contributor to Open Source Software projects.

## Technologies
- Ruby on Rails app with Typescript Node.js automations and **Elasticsearch** deployed to **AWS**.

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