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Senior backend engineer — Rails / Postgres

Remote — Americas USD 180,000 – 230,000 / year Fresh · posted 1 day ago Featured this week
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The role

You will own services inside the billing pipeline — the path from a raw subscription event to an invoice line, written in Rails with Postgres and an internal event log. Most of what you write will be Ruby; some will be SQL; little will be JavaScript. The team is six engineers, one product manager, distributed across the Americas, on a UTC −5 to −8 schedule with a four-hour overlap window.

What you will do in the first 90 days

  • Ship one self-contained piece of the new proration engine end-to-end (we will pair you with a tech lead, but you will own it).
  • Improve one production runbook based on an incident you sit in on.
  • Write one design doc for a 3–6 month effort and get it through review.

What we expect from your experience

  • 5+ years writing production Rails, with comfort in the parts of the framework that bite (caching, query optimization, background jobs).
  • Postgres at scale — partitioning, query plans, locking. You can read EXPLAIN ANALYZE and have an opinion.
  • You have led an incident response or post-mortem and write clearly about systems.

Compensation, benefits, and how we make decisions

USD 180,000 – 230,000 base, depending on location and level. Plus equity in the form of RSUs, full health/dental for US-based employees, and a remote-work stipend. We publish our levels and our pay framework internally; you will see yours on offer.

How to apply

Use the Apply button above. The first round is a written conversation with the hiring manager (45 minutes, take-home questions sent in advance). We will respond to every application within 10 business days, even if it is a no. We do not run blanket auto-rejects.

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