Ruby on Rails Developer
Pay tops out at $108,000 per year for this full-time, fully remote opening, and there's no location requirement. The team ships features in Rails and needs someone who can navigate the framework without needing every convention explained twice.
Qualifications
This one calls for a bachelor's degree, typically in computer science, as the entry point. Beyond that, candidates need 24 months of hands-on experience building web applications with Ruby on Rails, plus real comfort with the broader Rails ecosystem and its testing practices. Someone who's only worked in Rails-adjacent frameworks won't have quite the right muscle memory for this one.
Responsibilities
- Ship and maintain application code within an existing Rails codebase, following its established conventions rather than fighting them
- Write automated tests as part of the normal development flow, not as a cleanup step after the fact
- Coordinate with the rest of the team on feature releases and bug fixes, including the occasional production hotfix
Core skills
- Ruby
- The Rails framework
- SQL
- REST APIs
- Git
- RSpec or a comparable testing framework
Nice to have
None of these are required, but they're a plus.
- Experience with Hotwire or Turbo for front-end interactivity without a separate JavaScript framework
- Background job experience using something like Sidekiq
- Contributions to an open-source Ruby gem
How the team works
Naukri Mitra runs the first screening pass for this opening ahead of a technical interview with the engineering lead. A recent bug in the codebase turned out to be an N+1 query that only showed up under production traffic heavier than staging ever saw, and catching it required someone to actually read query logs rather than trusting that tests alone would surface it. That kind of investigative work comes up often enough that it's worth mentioning upfront rather than leaving it as a surprise.
Pay and benefits
Base salary reaches $108,000 annually, and some roles on this team layer in a quarterly bonus tied to individual or team performance on top of that. Compared with typical Ruby on Rails developer remote salary figures at this experience level, it lands on the stronger end.
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Remote-work flexibility
Applying
Send a resume along with a link to a Rails project you've built or meaningfully contributed to, plus a short note on what you specifically owned. Expect a technical screen within the first couple of weeks after applying.
