Software Engineer (Ruby)

✨ One Platform, a Whole World Of Opportunity

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.

When It Comes To Global Employment, We Walk The Walk. We’re Proof That Companies Don't Need An Office To Create a Highly-engaged Culture. Since The Company’s Inception In January 2020, Oyster Has

🌏 Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries

👩‍💻Featured in Forbes having ranked #9 in Flexjobs Top 30 Companies for remote jobs

🌈 Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female

🏆 Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class

🦄 Raised $286 million to date, with a current valuation of $1.2 billion!

💚 B Corp status achieved in 2023

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply!

The Role

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within +0 / +4 UTC.

As an engineer on our team, you will deliver core technology for our products. You will design software solutions, write code, craft tests, and troubleshoot issues. You will apply high standards of code quality and development best practices, such as TDD, continuous integration, and secure code thinking.

You will play an important role in our delivery process. You will need to understand the product goals and provide technical input to specifications. You will participate in discussions on domain model design and coordinate with our Product team. You will also collaborate with lead developers on architecture and implementation planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality web applications and backend services using Ruby on Rails.
• Translate product requirements into technical solutions that balance business needs, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other Engineering teams to plan, build, and ship features end to end.
• Champion engineering best practices, including test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, secure coding, and code documentation.
• Participate in and lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and domain modeling.
• Mentor and support teammates, including conducting code reviews and providing thoughtful feedback to promote growth and code excellence.
• Monitor and improve application performance, identifying and fixing bottlenecks, bugs, and other inefficiencies.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, advocating for tools and processes that support remote collaboration and team effectiveness.

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in software development, with a strong focus on Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Proven experience building and scaling production-ready web applications in a collaborative, agile environment.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, RESTful APIs, background job processing, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
• Solid foundation in testing practices, including unit, integration, and system testing.
• Experience with version control (Git) and collaboration tools (e.g., GitHub, GitLab).
• Collaborates closely with Product Managers,Designers and QA to translate user needs and product goals into thoughtful, scalable technical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, prioritize work effectively, and adapt to fast-changing product and business needs.
• Comfortable working remotely within a distributed team — sets clear boundaries, communicates proactively, and works effectively in asynchronous environments.
• Enthusiastic about clean code, automation, and continuous delivery pipelines.
• [BONUS] Front-end development experience with React and/or TypeScript.
• [BONUS] Exposure to DevOps workflows, infrastructure-as-code, or cloud platforms like AWS.
• [BONUS] Experience working in high-growth startups or mission-driven environments.

You'll also need

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one).
• Fluent English language skills.

🦪 How We Work Together At Oyster

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We elevate talent. 🙌 We build trust. 🤝 We thrive together. 🌍

Our mission is to create a more equal world—one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission—and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work.

We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work—and we share how we work in the Oyster Public HQ —to help other global teams learn from our experiences.

💌 How YOU Work

Different countries have different statutory benefits, different cultures have different norms, and different people have different needs! In order to best support and encourage our diverse team, we’ve created How YOU Work; a program of policies, practices, and perks to support your whole human experience as an employee at Oyster.

• Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.
• Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more).
• Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health.
• Wellbeing allowance: Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires! ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance. Check out their benefits catalogue here for inspiration.
• Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction).
• WFH stipend: Stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time!

✨ The best jobs should be available to everyone

At Oyster, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences and we’ve intentionally built our product and our company with an inclusive, global mindset. We know from experience that people from underrepresented groups often don’t apply for roles they don’t feel they meet all the criteria for. We’re committed to elevating talent by creating a trust-based environment where we can all thrive together. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily check every single box, please consider applying. We’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team.

Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email jobs@oysterhr.com with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.

Our available positions are published on our careers page and should you be invited to interview with us, our recruitment team will only ever contact you directly from an @oysterhr.com email address. We will never ask you to send us money as part of a job offer. If you receive a suspicious email relating to opportunities at Oyster from any other email domain where someone is claiming to be a part of our recruitment team, or are directed to anywhere other than www.oysterhr.com/careers to view our available jobs we encourage you to submit a report through our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.