Senior Backend Developer - Ruby on Rails - Remote

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Dublin, County Dublin and two nearshore delivery centres. Founded in 1991, we now have 7,100 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Position summary:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Backend Developer - Ruby on Rails - Remote. We want someone who writes boring, reliable code and leaves good logs behind. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in the UK, with a local contract and salary paid in pounds. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Key responsibilities:

• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ
• Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning

Required qualifications:

• 6+ years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms
• Clear written communication, including design docs
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js

Rate: £99,000 to £135,000 per annum

Benefits:

• Co-working space stipend
• Company laptop
• Paid sick days
• Wellness allowance
• Annual team retreat
• Monthly internet allowance
• 20 days paid time off

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

No agencies please.

We may close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Steelspan DAC.