Backend Engineer - Ruby

Summary

Join Salsify, a leading commerce infrastructure company, and be part of a team scaling from $100M to $500M. We help brands, distributors, and retailers globally collaborate to win on the digital shelf. As a Software Engineer, you will build and improve our products, solve complex problems, and define product direction. You will work with a talented team, using technologies like Ruby, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, and Kubernetes. The company values clarity, competence, and autonomy, offering a collaborative and fun work environment. Salsify is committed to diversity and inclusion, offering a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Requirements

• 3+ years of commercial software development experience
• A command of one or more server side languages (most of our back-end was built with Ruby)
• Experience building consumer facing applications in a SaaS or product-based company, specializing in back-end development
• Experience with contemporary frameworks, build tools, and testing tools
• A drive to build scalable and performant applications -- you know that just because a query returns the results you need, it may not be the most efficient approach
• An interest in exchanging ideas around building robust, secure, maintainable software
• Comfort providing and receiving feedback on implementation ideas
• Experience working as part of a distributed team

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production-grade software using some of the following technologies: Ruby, PostgreSQL, Redis
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Develop and launch new features that drive customer business value, engagement, and satisfaction, directly contributing to the growth of Salsify's platform
• Work closely with product managers and UX designers to experiment with and implement innovative solutions that solve real customer challenges and unlock new capabilities
• Share your expertise through tech talks and engineering affinity groups, contributing to the evolution of best practices in engineering and influencing strategies across the team
• Be proud of what you work on, learn from your peers and give back to the Salsify community as you contribute to the success of an exciting and fast growing Boston-based company with global customers

Preferred Qualifications

Experience or interest in building data analytics products and/or working with data

Benefits

• Health & medical benefits
• PTO
• Equity in the form of stock options