Gamification Senior Software Engineer
Build and operate scalable Ruby on Rails backend services for a high-traffic fantasy sports platform. The role requires 5–8 years of software engineering experience, strong PostgreSQL and API design skills, and ownership of complex systems and technical delivery.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and build performant, scalable, and reliable Ruby on Rails backend services.
- Own complex feature delivery end-to-end, from product requirements through deployment and monitoring.
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and improve backend resilience under load.
- Define architectural direction and communicate technical tradeoffs.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Improve practices for code quality, testing, observability, and deployment.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and engineering teams.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant production Ruby on Rails experience.
- Experience owning and delivering complex, multi-component features.
- Experience designing and operating scalable backend systems.
- Expert Ruby on Rails and idiomatic Ruby proficiency.
- Strong PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Understanding of RESTful API design, serialization, and versioning.
- Experience with background job processing and asynchronous workflows, such as Sidekiq.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Understanding of logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Working knowledge of Go.
- Ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization.
- Authorization to work for any employer in the United States; visa sponsorship is unavailable.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools for coding, planning, scoping, and code review.
- Experience integrating AI tooling into engineering workflows.
Skills
Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Postgres, REST APIs, Sidekiq, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Observability, Go
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