Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)
- Design, build, review, test, and maintain Ruby on Rails features and services in line with Diligent’s agile engineering practices
- Own technical delivery for projects, epics, and major user stories, including solution design, implementation planning, and execution through to production
- Develop and evolve RESTful APIs and web applications with a strong focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance
- Contribute to architectural decisions, prototype solutions where needed, and help separate major components and subsystems as products evolve
- Partner effectively with Product, QA, DevOps, Security, and other engineering teams to ensure smooth delivery of working software into production
- Champion code quality through thoughtful code reviews, automated testing, documentation, continuous improvement of engineering practices, and sensible use of AI tools for coding, debugging, and prototyping with appropriate human validation
- Mentor other engineers, share knowledge across the team, and help raise the bar on technical execution and delivery discipline
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in a commercial software environment
- Strong hands-on experience building web applications and services
- Excellent understanding of Ruby on Rails and practical experience delivering production-grade backend or full-stack applications with it
- Strong experience with API and web development, including RESTful service design and implementation
- Experience designing secure software in environments that embrace DevOps, infrastructure as code, and automated delivery practices
- Solid understanding of microservices or service-oriented architectures and the trade-offs involved in distributed systems
- Familiarity with source control systems such as Git and GitHub, along with common collaboration and branching workflows
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to mentor peers, contribute to engineering standards, and help break down larger initiatives into executable work
- Working knowledge of SQL and data modeling, with the ability to reason about application performance and persistence-layer design
- Experience working with AWS-based systems and modern cloud deployment patterns
- Experience with message queues, asynchronous processing, or event-driven integration patterns
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, observability, and operational ownership of services in production
- Experience modernizing legacy Rails applications or contributing to platform evolution initiatives
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience