Biotechnology and Life Science
Backend Engineer
Location
New York
Posted
12 hours ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Backend Engineer
THEMIS Waste Recovery Technology
• Design, build, and maintain backend systems on a modern Rails stack • Work with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, background jobs, APIs, and service integrations • Own features end to end, from design and implementation through testing and deployment • Build secure, reliable APIs and backend workflows that support complex GRC use cases • Design data models and database structures that prioritize integrity, performance, and long-term maintainability • Collaborate with frontend engineers to design clean, well-documented APIs • Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Rails code • Contribute to architecture decisions as the platform scales • Identify and address performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and data integrity issues • Participate in code reviews and help raise the engineering bar • Improve backend patterns, tooling, and development practices over time • Apply security and data-handling best practices appropriate to a regulated domain • Partner with product to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions • Support audit, compliance, and data-integrity requirements relevant to our customers • Help maintain systems that customers can trust for critical governance, risk, and compliance workflows.
Job Requirements
- Strong professional experience building production applications with Ruby on Rails or a similar modern backend framework
- Experience working with PostgreSQL or another relational database, including data modeling and query performance
- Experience with Redis, background jobs, caching, queues, or similar backend infrastructure
- Strong experience designing and building APIs
- Experience writing tested, maintainable, production-grade code
- Strong understanding of security, reliability, performance, and data integrity fundamentals
- Ability to own backend systems end to end and manage complexity thoughtfully
- Strong communication skills and comfort working closely with product, frontend, and other engineering team members.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Remote work options
- Asynchronous work support
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