Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

About The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer to join a highly collaborative, long-term engineering team focused on product development, modernization, maintenance, and continuous improvement.

This is a fully remote, nearshore opportunity working closely with a Canada-based team, with mandatory overlap during Eastern Time (ET) working hours.

The ideal candidate is not only technically strong but also highly communicative, dependable, accountable, and comfortable working in a structured environment where collaboration, transparency, and task visibility are important.

This position is intended to be a long-term engagement, so we are looking for someone interested in building deep knowledge of the platform, products, and business rather than treating the role as a short-term assignment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and enhance applications using Ruby on Rails.
• Support existing applications while contributing to modernization and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in Ruby/Rails version upgrades and application modernization projects.
• Contribute to migrations of legacy applications, services, or components to Ruby on Rails.
• Write reliable, maintainable, and well-tested code using RSpec and established testing practices.
• Troubleshoot application issues and provide production support and maintenance.
• Work with MySQL and contribute to application performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain real-time functionality using Action Cable and Hotwire.
• Participate in code reviews, planning sessions, technical discussions, and decision-making.
• Collaborate closely with developers, technical leads, product stakeholders, and other team members.
• Proactively communicate progress, blockers, dependencies, and changes.
• Take ownership of assigned work while remaining receptive to feedback and team direction.
• Continuously learn the team's systems, processes, products, and business context.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Strong experience with RSpec and automated testing.
• Professional experience with MySQL.
• Strong knowledge of Git and modern source-control workflows.
• Experience working in Unix-based environments, particularly Linux and/or macOS.
• Hands-on experience with Ruby/Rails version upgrades and modernization initiatives.
• Experience migrating applications, components, or services from other technologies or languages into Ruby on Rails.
• Strong experience with application support, maintenance, troubleshooting, and enhancement.
• Hands-on experience with Action Cable.
• Hands-on experience with Hotwire.
• Strong professional English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work effectively in a structured, collaborative, and distributed engineering environment.

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience with AWS, particularly:EC2, RDS, S3, Secrets Manager
• Experience with Salesforce integrations.
• Strong JavaScript knowledge.
• Experience with modern frontend technologies or frameworks.
• Experience modernizing legacy enterprise applications.
• Experience with TDD/BDD development practices.
• Experience working with distributed or remote development teams.
• Experience with real-time web applications and modern Rails frontend approaches.
• Experience working in long-term product development environments.

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