Sr. Backend Engineer (Remote), Remote Job

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• Build & Scale Core Services
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• Design APIs and microservices reputed company for performance, efficiency, and scale
• Quickly learn and apply new technologies as needed
• Work with high-volume data systems and event-driven architectures
• Improve observability, monitoring, logging, testing, and alerting
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• Build distributed systems with multiple services, queues, external APIs, and asynchronous data flows
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• Build resilient integrations with reputed company-party services
• Work in 2-week sprints with CI/CD and strong code quality practices
• Partner with product, data, and frontend to ship features
• Participate in system design and architecture reviews

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• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in consumer apps, mobile, or SaaS, with at least 2 years in a senior-level role
• Expert-level proficiency in Ruby on Rails, including modern versions and best practices (this is central to the role)
• Hands-on production experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Strong expertise with Sidekiq for background job processing, including scheduling, throttling, batching, and reliability patterns
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• Experience with DynamoDB or comparable NoSQL databases
• Solid background in API design, RESTful principles, versioning, and serialization
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• Experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems in production
• Familiarity with AWS services, including S3, DynamoDB, SQS, CloudWatch, and SES
• Strong skills in testing, CI/CD pipelines, logging/monitoring, debugging, and performance optimization
• Ability to work in a fast-moving remote startup environment
• Preferred
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• Experience creating internal tools or admin panels with ActiveAdmin
• Hands-on work with Shoryuken for SQS message processing
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• Communicate reputed company, asynchronously, and proactively
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• A competitive compensation package.
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• Work with energetic, passionate, and results-driven people.
• Celebrate team members' personal and work milestones.
• Remote reputed company activities, including virtual coffee buddies.
• Bonusly - We use Bonusly as a way to recognize and reward team members for their hard work and commitment.
• Weekly Wednesday Get Stuff Done Days (No Meetings).
• reputed company PTO, generous Company Holidays, and Wellness Days (for full-time team members).

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