Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails) – Contract

Location: Fully Remote (United States)

Compensation: $45–$55/hour (1099 or Corp-to-Corp)

Duration: 12-month contract

Hours: 40 hours/week

About the Company

Our team builds technology that brings clarity, efficiency, and accountability to some of the worlds most dynamic workplaces. From airport ramps to logistics hubs and sports venues, our platform unites teams and systems in a single digital environment—simplifying communication, coordinating work, and capturing data that drives continuous improvement.

Trusted by major global organizations and service partners, our technology combines user-centric design with AI-supported orchestration to make operations safer, smarter, and more human. We are growing quickly and looking for passionate builders who want to help shape the next generation of real-time workforce technology.

Role Overview

We are hiring a mid-level Backend Engineer to help build and maintain the services that power our platform. In this role, you will work across Java and Ruby on Rails services while helping drive reliability, scalability, and near-zero downtime across the system.

What Youll Do

Design, build, and maintain backend services and integration pipelines in Java and Ruby on Rails.

Implement and evolve data feeds with external partners including ingestion, transformation, validation, error handling, and observability.

Develop APIs (REST/GraphQL), database interactions, background jobs, and integration adapters.

Write high-quality tests (unit and integration) and contribute to CI/CD pipelines to keep releases safe and fast.

Investigate and resolve production issues, participate in incident reviews, and drive remediation.

Improve performance, scalability, and robustness across services using caching, queueing, retries, and fault-tolerant patterns.

Work with infrastructure teams to define redundancy, monitoring, alerting, and operational runbooks that support a near-zero downtime environment.

What You Bring

5+ years of professional backend development experience with Ruby on Rails, Node, or Java.

Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and pragmatic software design.

Experience designing and consuming APIs and integrating with external services and data sources.

Expertise with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MS SQL Server, including schema design and query optimization.

Familiarity with AWS services such as ECS/Lambda, S3, SQS/SNS, and RDS.

Experience working with Linux environments, containers, and CI/CD workflows.

Ability to adapt quickly and learn new services or technologies when required.

Degree in computer science or a related technical field.

Strong focus on maintainability, testability, and reliability.

Clear written and verbal communication and the ability to collaborate with distributed teams.

Nice to Have

Experience with Node.js or TypeScript for integration tooling.

Experience with message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Familiarity with background job frameworks like Sidekiq or Resque.

Experience with observability tooling including logs, metrics, traces, and performance profiling.

Location & Work Environment

The team maintains a San Francisco office with a flexible work-from-home policy. Bay Area candidates who can collaborate in person occasionally are preferred, though strong remote candidates will be considered.

Interested?

If this opportunity sounds like a good fit for your background and you enjoy building reliable systems that operate at scale, wed love to hear from you. Apply and share a brief note about your experience building backend services and the technologies youve worked with.

Required Skills:

Ruby