Ruby Labs is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale the core backend systems that power their AI product Use.ai. This is a high-ownership role for an engineer who loves solving distributed systems challenges and driving both feature delivery and infrastructure excellence.
Requirements
- Deliver new backend features with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Maintain, optimize, and improve existing services and infrastructure.
- Design, deploy, and operate backend services across AWS, Cloudflare, and other environments.
- Implement and evolve monitoring and observability using tools such as Sentry, OpenTelemetry (OTel), logging, alerting, and related platforms.
- Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed systems.
- Write clean, maintainable code aligned with SOLID principles, system design, and backend best practices.
- Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, and system reliability improvements.
- Contribute to architectural decisions, documentation, and infrastructure planning.
- Collaborate with high standards for communication, ownership, and delivery.
Benefits
- Remote Work Environment: Embrace the freedom to work from anywhere, anytime, promoting a healthy work-life balance.
- Unlimited PTO: Enjoy unlimited paid time off to recharge and prioritize your well-being, without counting days.
- Paid National Holidays: Celebrate and relax on national holidays with paid time off to unwind and recharge.
- Company-provided MacBook: Experience seamless productivity with top-notch Apple MacBooks provided to all employees who need them.
- Flexible Independent Contractor Agreement: Unlock the benefits of flexibility, autonomy, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
