CompanyCam is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) to help evolve their photo documentation and productivity app for contractors, focusing on improving communication and accountability across the business. The role is part of a growing engineering team that aims to deliver a consumer-grade experience while scaling their backend systems.
Requirements
- Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails (and/or other MVC frameworks) and relational databases, with demonstrated ability to design and optimize scalable data models and APIs.
- Familiarity with Redis, PostgreSQL, and Sidekiq in a production environment.
- Experience contributing across the full stack, including front-end, back-end, and data layers.
- Demonstrated experience in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to build, enhance, or optimize tools and features within products, driving innovation and improving user experience.
- Ability to handle complex tasks and ambiguous problems without guidance.
- Understanding of business trade-offs and ability to effectively communicate the risks and benefits of various technical approaches.
- Nice-to-haves include experience with AWS (S3, EC2, etc.), ElasticSearch, MongoDB, React, React Native, Terraform, GraphQL, and experience integrating with large language models (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini).
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and deliver complex, cross-cutting features and systems in Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, and REST, and occasionally in React and React Native.
- Lead efforts to address technical debt and system reliability, proactively identifying areas for refactoring or optimization.
- Influence and evolve the architecture and system design, anticipating future needs and driving long-term improvements across services and applications.
- Set and uphold high standards for code quality, testing coverage, and documentation, mentoring others to do the same.
- Drive improvements to internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems to enhance developer experience and system resilience.
- Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making, helping the team navigate trade-offs and align on best solutions.
- Act as a point of escalation for complex technical challenges, supporting team members in unblocking progress.
Other
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- You live and work permanently in the U.S.
- Show up: Have the courage to do difficult but necessary work.
- Grow up: Take ownership, learn continuously, and bring a growth mindset.
- Do good: Treat your teammates and customers the way you'd want to be treated.
