Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join VergeSense as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the development of the Occupancy Intelligence Platform. This impactful role involves working across the software stack, focusing on customer-facing features, visualizations, data management, and APIs. You will lead technical roadmaps, collaborate with various departments, and mentor junior engineers. The position requires extensive experience in Ruby on Rails, API development, and large-scale system optimization. VergeSense offers competitive compensation, equity, and benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as an open vacation policy.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience designing, building, and shipping software
• Proven ability to lead projects and effectively communicate with cross-functional teams
• Expertise in Ruby/Ruby on Rails or similar server-side/web framework technologies
• Extensive experience building APIs, managing high-volume data, and optimizing large-scale systems
• Strong expertise in designing, debugging, testing, and writing well-documented code
• Skilled in optimizing background job processing, query performance, and database scalability
• Familiar with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration in production environments

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for technical roadmaps and collaborate with various departments to shape the overall product roadmap
• Be a strategic thought partner for leaders across the organization on driving business impact through application feature delivery
• Coach and mentor the next generation of strong engineers on the team

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Kafka or similar pub/sub systems for building reliable, distributed architectures is preferred but not required

Benefits

• A high-impact role in an emerging industry leader
• Competitive compensation and equity
• Employer-sponsored medical
• Dental and vision insurance (dependent on location)
• Open Vacation policy: take time off when you need it