Senior Back End Engineer – Ruby on Rails, GO

🕒 August 9

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201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

Gaming • Sports

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📋 Description

• Design and implement backend features across Rails-based services and Go microservices, from API contracts through deployment and monitoring • Help decompose the Rails monolith into independently deployable services and contribute to extraction and architecture decisions • Build and maintain backend APIs for projection management, risk dashboards, alerting, and member operations • Lead complex feature design and implementation from product requirements through production deployment • Diagnose performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and improve backend resilience under load • Propose and drive service architecture decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and communicate recommendations • Mentor Software Engineers I, II, and III through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance • Improve team practices for code quality, testing, observability, and deployment • Collaborate with Product Managers, QA, and engineering teams to translate operational goals into technical solutions • Participate in the on-call rotation, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve long-term reliability

🎯 Requirements

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful production experience in both Ruby on Rails and Go • Proven record owning and delivering complex, multi-component features in a team environment • Experience with monolith-to-microservices migrations, service extraction, dual-write patterns, and backward compatibility • Experience designing and operating distributed systems or event-driven architectures • Strong Rails proficiency and idiomatic Ruby development • Strong Go proficiency and production-quality, well-tested Go development • PostgreSQL skills including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning • Understanding of REST and/or gRPC API design and service boundary design • Experience with asynchronous workflows, background job processing such as Sidekiq, message queues, or event streaming • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation • Understanding of observability practices including logging, metrics, and tracing • Comfortable working autonomously on ambiguous problems • Able to communicate technical decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Able to context-switch between deep technical work and collaborative planning • Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; employment visa sponsorship is unavailable

🏖️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans • 401(k) plan with company match • Annual bonus • Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!) • Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits • Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked • Company-wide in-person events and team outings • Lifestyle enhancement program • Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options) • Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development