Ruby on Rails

Summary

Join Encora's Commerce team as a Senior Backend Software Engineer and enhance the reliability, performance, and maintainability of our financial systems. You will be responsible for building robust backend systems, tackling complex challenges, and improving operational excellence. This role involves working with Ruby on Rails, SQL, and various third-party providers to manage billing, payment processing, payouts, and taxes/fees. You will collaborate with a team to design, develop, and maintain payment systems, debug and refactor legacy code, and implement observability and monitoring systems. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in backend development using Ruby on Rails and a strong understanding of SQL and financial systems. This is a full-time, remote position.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience developing production applications using Ruby on Rails
• Strong expertise in SQL and working with complex data queries in production environments
• Skilled in root cause analysis and solving complex system issues
• Solid experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic
• Ability to enhance legacy code for improved reliability and performance
• Proven experience across the full software development lifecycle
• Advanced testing skills using RSpec for unit and integration testing
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
• Strong sense of ownership and a drive for continuous improvement

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Ruby on Rails backend payment systems integrated with third-party providers like Stripe and Sovos
• Debug and refactor legacy code, and manually test features for usability and accuracy
• Diagnose and resolve system errors using tools like Datadog, ensuring issues are addressed and prevented
• Write complex SQL queries to identify and resolve payment system discrepancies in Snowflake and optimize legacy query performance
• Automate and streamline investigation tasks to improve efficiency and resolution speed
• Design and implement observability and monitoring systems to improve system visibility and health tracking
• Guide development best practices and optimize application performance across the Ruby on Rails codebase
• Champion test-driven development with comprehensive RSpec unit and integration tests
• Collaborate with product managers and engineering peers to convert complex requirements into maintainable solutions
• Contribute to code reviews and mentor team members through constructive feedback
• Document designs, decisions, and system insights to promote knowledge sharing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payment systems, billing platforms, or fintech is highly desirable
• Understanding of financial transaction data integrity and reconciliation
• Ability to design scalable and accessible data models suitable for downstream stakeholders such as data engineering or accounting teams

Benefits

Remote work