Senior Ruby Software Engineer

At Alkimii, we’re on a mission to transform how hospitality businesses manage their people and property operations.

Our platform helps hotels run smoother operations, improve team communication and create better workplaces for their employees.

As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer to join our development team in Spain and help us continue evolving the Alkimii platform.

If you enjoy writing clean code, solving real production problems, shipping improvements quickly and using modern tools — including AI-assisted development — you might feel right at home here.

Who are we?

We are Alkimii, a fast-growing Irish SaaS company building software that helps hospitality businesses run better operations.

Hundreds of hospitality teams rely on Alkimii every day to manage their people, processes and property operations.

We are a software company at heart, and engineering sits at the centre of everything we do.

What’s the opportunity?

You’ll join a team of wonderful humans building a product that evolves continuously.

Our engineers work on both:

• improving and supporting the existing platform

• building new product functionality

Because our software is used daily by real hospitality teams, stability, reliability and speed of iteration matter just as much as new features.

Engineers here participate in conversations that shape the product — and are expected to take ownership of their work from idea to delivery.

Do you enjoy…

Writing clean, well-tested Ruby code

Working with Ruby, Rails and GraphQL

Debugging production issues and improving existing systems

Shipping improvements quickly and seeing them used by real customers

Collaborating with engineers, product specialists and designers

Solving technical problems with pragmatism

Using modern developer tools — including AI coding assistants and agents — to work faster and smarter

If that sounds like you… keep scrolling.

What will you be doing?

You’ll contribute across the product lifecycle — from maintaining the stability of the platform to building new functionality.

Support and improve the existing platform

A key part of this role is ensuring our platform runs smoothly for the teams that depend on it.

You’ll:

• Investigate and resolve production issues

• Improve existing features and workflows

• Debug complex problems across the system

• Work closely with customer and product teams to address real operational challenges

Build product improvements

You’ll also contribute to the evolution of the product by developing new functionality.

Working with:

Ruby / Rails

GraphQL

Vue.js

The features you help build and improve will be used daily by hospitality teams running their operations.

Write high-quality code

We care about code quality.

You’ll:

• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code

• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions

• Contribute to maintaining strong engineering standards

We write a lot of tests.

Improve performance and scalability

As our platform grows, so do the technical challenges.

You’ll help:

• Optimise database queries and application performance

• Diagnose bottlenecks and improve system reliability

• Contribute to scaling the platform as usage grows

Contribute to the platform’s evolution

You’ll also help improve how we build and ship software:

• Supporting Ruby and Rails upgrades

• Improving deployment pipelines

• Contributing to infrastructure improvements using AWS and Docker

• Exploring new tooling and workflows that help the team move faster

Our Tech Stack

Ruby / Rails

GraphQL

Vue.js

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

Shoryuken

CI/CD pipelines

What we expect from you

Experience

• Solid experience working with Ruby on Rails

• Experience working in product or engineering teams

Technical skills

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns

• Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL)

• Writing efficient queries and debugging performance issues

• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred)

Mindset

• Proactive “manager of one” mentality — comfortable taking ownership of problems and driving solutions

• Focus on delivering and shipping improvements regularly

• Curious and pragmatic problem solver

• Comfortable collaborating in cross-functional teams

• Open to using modern developer tooling — including AI coding assistants, LLMs and coding agents — to improve productivity and development workflows

Nice to have

Experience with GraphQL

Background job frameworks (Shoryuken)

Docker and CI/CD pipelines

Experience working in SaaS environments

What success looks like after 12 months

• Contributed to improving the stability and reliability of the platform

• Delivered meaningful improvements and features used by customers

• Participating actively in technical discussions and architecture decisions

• Helping the team move faster through good engineering practices and effective tooling

What can you expect from us

💰Full time competitive salary

💰Coverflex - Flexible compensation & employee benefits

👨 💻 Innovative technology (Ruby, GrahpQL...) and a continuously developing product that we own.

🩺 Wellbeing programs, learning and growth opportunities

🧘 ♀️ Flexible working week, because we take seriously the productivity and wellbeing of our team

🚀 Learning and growth opportunities. Opportunity to work on new projects every 6 - 9 months. You will work on meaningful and challenging tasks in a relaxed yet supportive environment. We want you to rock and shine!

🙋 4,000 Employee Referral Program

✈️Trips to Malaga / Dublin for our Annual Conference and get to know the team

👯 Quarterly team meet-ups

🇨🇮🇪🇸 In house English / Spanish lessons!

💻 Freedom to choose your work setup, we choose MacBook Pro Max but you can use whatever you like

🏠👨 💻 Work remotely - from Spain only - or in a beautiful building in the historic city centre of Málaga with a lively social life. Alameda Principal is close to the port, the Cathedral and many local amenities.

Does it sounds good to you? Click on "apply", we are looking forward to your application! 🙌