Software Engineer II

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