Senior Backend Engineer

Job not on LinkedIn

🔥 12 hours ago

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Receive Emails For Remote Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Ruby Labs

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

📚 Education

Health • Education • Entertainment

Ruby Labs is a company that creates cutting-edge consumer products designed to innovate across health, education, and entertainment sectors. With a commitment to enhancing lives and making a positive impact, Ruby Labs is at the forefront of technological progress. Their diverse portfolio reflects their dedication to innovation in vital sectors of society, specifically health and wellness, pharmaceuticals, education, and entertainment. Ruby Labs has a self-funded model that empowers them to pursue ambitious ideas independently. The company boasts over 100 million annual users and has a track record of sustained growth over 6 years, delivering products that are adopted by millions.

📋 Description

• Deliver new backend features with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability. • Maintain, optimize, and improve existing services and infrastructure. • Design, deploy, and operate backend services across AWS, Cloudflare, and other environments. • Implement and evolve monitoring and observability using tools such as Sentry, OpenTelemetry (OTel), logging, alerting, and related platforms. • Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed systems. • Write clean, maintainable code aligned with SOLID principles, system design, and backend best practices. • Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, and system reliability improvements. • Contribute to architectural decisions, documentation, and infrastructure planning. • Collaborate with high standards for communication, ownership, and delivery.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in distributed systems, system design, and backend architecture. • Strong understanding of database fundamentals, indexing, consistency, replication, transactions, and storage trade-offs. • Proven ability to design scalable and resilient systems. • Fluency in Node.js backend development. • Strong grasp of software engineering principles, including SOLID. • Experience debugging complex issues in production environments. • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and backend service deployment. • Experience implementing monitoring and observability using tools such as Sentry and OpenTelemetry (OTel), including tracing, logging, and alerting. • High standards for code quality, reliability, and communication. • Deep knowledge of Redis, including caching, pub/sub, queues, replication, persistence, and performance tuning. • Strong experience with AWS services, including compute, serverless, networking, storage, security, and infrastructure-as-code. • Experience with Cloudflare Workers, edge routing, caching, and security primitives. • Familiarity with Sentry performance monitoring and OpenTelemetry instrumentation at scale. • Comfortable working in timezone ±2 hours from UK time.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote Work Environment: Embrace the freedom to work from anywhere, anytime, promoting a healthy work-life balance. • Unlimited PTO: Enjoy unlimited paid time off to recharge and prioritize your well-being, without counting days. • Paid National Holidays: Celebrate and relax on national holidays with paid time off to unwind and recharge. • Company-provided MacBook: Experience seamless productivity with top-notch Apple MacBooks provided to all employees who need them. • Flexible Independent Contractor Agreement: Unlock the benefits of flexibility, autonomy, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Benefit from tax advantages, networking opportunities, reduced employment obligations, and the freedom to work from anywhere.