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JAMS orchestrates IT and data processes with control, visibility, and reliability.
Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
138 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer
JAMS Software
• Technical ownership of the core Ruby on Rails application • Incident routing and scheduling logic • Background job architecture (Sidekiq / Redis) • REST APIs used by frontends and external integrations • Postgres performance and data modeling • Production reliability and uptime (99.9% guaranteed) • CI/CD and deployment workflows • Small supporting Node.js services where appropriate • On-call and product support responsibilities are a part of this role
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of professional Ruby on Rails experience
- Strong Postgres knowledge (indexing, query optimization, partitioning, migrations at scale)
- Deep familiarity with background job systems and failure modes
- Experience operating production systems under real load
- Comfortable debugging live incidents (logs, jobs, DB, memory)
- Solid understanding of high-availability concepts and distributed system tradeoffs
- Experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
- Writes and maintains meaningful automated tests
- Writes and maintains public facing product documentation
- Comfortable owning a system without heavy process or hand-holding
- Experience with alerting, monitoring, or notification platforms are a plus
- Timezone and scheduling logic experience are a plus
- Node.js service experience is a plus
Benefits
- 100% remote work environment with colleagues around the globe
- Competitive benefits
- 401k program and employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Paid Holidays
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