Ruby on Rails Developer

Ruby on Rails Developer Position Type: Full-Time, Remote Working Hours: U.S. Business Hours Location: Remote (LATAM, Eastern Europe, Pakistan, South Africa Preferred)

About the Role

We are hiring a skilled Ruby on Rails Developer to build, optimize, and maintain scalable web applications used by growing businesses and product teams. This role is ideal for an engineer who understands the Rails ecosystem deeply and enjoys building clean, reliable, and high-performing applications from end to end.

You will work closely with product, engineering, and design teams to develop new features, improve application performance, and maintain scalable backend systems.

The ideal candidate is highly technical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working independently in fast-paced remote environments where ownership, speed, and code quality matter. What You’ll Own Rails Application Development Build and maintain Ruby on Rails applications, APIs, and backend services

• Develop scalable business logic using Rails conventions, ActiveRecord, controllers, and service objects

• Build RESTful APIs and integrate third-party services and external APIs

• Collaborate with frontend developers using React, Vue, or Stimulus when required

• Contribute to feature development from architecture through deployment Database Design & Optimization Design and maintain PostgreSQL or MySQL database schemas

• Optimize database queries and improve application performance

• Implement indexing, caching, and query optimization strategies

• Manage background jobs using Sidekiq, Resque, or similar frameworks

• Ensure applications remain scalable and performant under growing workloads Testing, CI/CD & Code Quality Write and maintain unit, integration, and system tests using RSpec, Minitest, or Capybara

• Maintain high code quality standards and test coverage

• Participate in peer code reviews and maintain clean, maintainable codebases

• Support CI/CD workflows and automated deployment pipelines

• Enforce coding stand