Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join HHAeXchange, a leading technology platform for home and community-based care, as a Senior Software Engineer. You will play a key role in scaling our platform, driving feature delivery, and supporting both legacy modernization and new product growth. Working with our Rails, AWS, and Kubernetes-based stack, you will power critical workflows that improve lives daily. This role requires building and maintaining reliable, high-performance Ruby on Rails services, optimizing database queries, and contributing to architectural improvements. You will also participate in a shared on-call rotation and continuously improve code quality. The position offers a remote-first work environment and a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production-grade Ruby on Rails applications
• Strong proficiency with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) and software design principles
• Proficient in Test-Driven Development (TDD) and writing maintainable, well-tested code
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS services (e.g., ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience
• Strong skills in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
• Comfortable working in Agile development environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code to build software solutions that enable users to access and manage in-home care services
• Design, build, and maintain reliable, high-performance Ruby on Rails services
• Support and enhance existing products and applications, balancing new feature development with legacy system modernization
• Own end-to-end development of features that directly drive revenue and scale the platform
• Optimize database queries and API performance to ensure speed, efficiency, and availability
• Contribute to architectural improvements and participate in technical design discussions
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation to maintain system health, with strong team support
• Continuously improve code quality, testing, and deployment practices
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHAeXchange leader

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Experience supporting both legacy systems and greenfield product development
• Exposure to GraphQL APIs and domain-driven design (DDD)
• Familiarity with observability and performance tools like Datadog, New Relic, or Scout APM
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes-based orchestration (EKS/ECS)
• Knowledge of job queue processing (e.g., Resque, Sidekiq)

Benefits

• Competitive health plans
• Paid time-off
• Company paid holidays
• 401K retirement program with a Company elected match
• Other company sponsored programs