Associate Backend Developer - Ruby on Rails

Headquartered in Chicago, the company runs operations centers in Illinois and two other locations. Since 1975, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices.

Ironbark Investment Partners is looking for an Associate Backend Developer - Ruby on Rails to join a small, steady team. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on.

Main duties

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.

What we're looking for

• 1+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.

What you get

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid holidays.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Professional development budget.

Ironbark Investment Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Ironbark Investment Partners.