Principal Backend Engineer, Ruby on Rails

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Kalkomey Enterprises, LLC

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1995

📚 Education

🏛️ Government

☁️ SaaS

Education • Government • SaaS

Kalkomey Enterprises, LLC is a provider of outdoor safety and education solutions that partner closely with government agencies and organizations. Kalkomey offers a GovSuite software platform combining education, events, data visualizations, certification fulfillment, card printing, regulatory delivery, and operational support to help public agencies run programs, maintain compliance, and deliver resident-facing services. They deliver accredited online, in-person, scenario-based and advanced courses, in-field tools such as mapping and property-line information, and prediction/forecast capabilities to support outdoor skills and stewardship. Kalkomey emphasizes secure, centralized workflows and audit-ready records, serving 60+ state, provincial, territorial and federal government partners with tens of millions of certifications issued and a broad global/North American reach.

📋 Description

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for our backend systems — making and documenting decisions that affect scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability, and proactively identifying and addressing architectural risk and technical debt • Lead design reviews for major backend initiatives and capture significant decisions as architecture decision records (ADRs) • Define and own the functional discipline roadmap for backend engineering, aligned to the organization-wide roadmap, and partner with Product Leadership to identify and champion cross-cutting strategic initiatives • Define and maintain engineering standards — repository health (documentation, testing, structure), application performance, security, experimentation, and product analytics — publishing them to the engineering playbook • Lead evaluations of third-party engineering tools, making the final call based on technical merit and fit • Write production code on high-complexity, high-impact problems and conduct thorough code reviews that raise the quality of the codebase and the skills of engineers around you • Use AI tooling fluently to accelerate your own work and the team's — not as a novelty, but as a genuine multiplier — and show others how to get strong results from it • Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and feedback, and share knowledge broadly through tech talks and playbook contributions

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated progression into senior technical leadership • Deep expertise in backend engineering, with strong, current command of Ruby on Rails • Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed systems that are maintainable, observable, and reliable in production • A strong command of software design principles — SOLID, DRY, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and the like • Experience leading technical design across multiple teams or product areas without direct authority • A demonstrated AI-forward practice: you actively use AI tools to get strong results and have a clear point of view on where they help and where they don’t • Excellent written and verbal communication — you can produce clear architecture docs, decision records, and technical specs, and explain them to engineers and non-engineers alike • Comfort working in a remote, async-first environment with a high degree of ownership and autonomy.

🏖️ Benefits

• We are a fully distributed company – unless specifically indicated in the job description, this is a work from home position • Employer matched 401(k) • Medical/Dental/Vision insurance with generous employer contributions (including HSA) • Maternity and Paternity leave and benefits • Three weeks of paid vacation, 12 paid holidays, a paid community service day, and a flexible work schedule • Annual wellness allowance, as well as a paid mental health day once a year for when you need it • Automatic WFH contribution to each paycheck • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)