Staff Product Engineer (Ruby on Rails)
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COMPENSATION
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Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote worldwide
- Ruby on Rails 8.1
- Stripe experience required
- Bootstrapped & profitable
Join a lean, profitable team building a real-time SERP API used by Fortune 500 companies. You will serve as the technical backbone, handling the most challenging pull requests and raising code quality standards across the entire product.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role with high trust and autonomy. You will collaborate directly with the CEO/CTO to shape technical decisions, implement enterprise features, and ensure reliable search data delivery at scale.
What you'll do
- Own complex features, refactors, and performance-critical code
- Review pull requests to maintain high engineering standards
- Build enterprise capabilities like SAML, SCIM, and audit logs
- Manage billing logic and Stripe integrations for subscriptions
- Optimize application performance through memory and CPU profiling
- Develop clean frontend interfaces using TailwindCSS and Hotwire
- Implement security best practices and mitigate vulnerabilities
- Make architectural decisions and guide technical direction
What you'll need
- Extensive production experience with Ruby on Rails
- Proven track record with Stripe billing and webhooks
- Strong product mindset and ability to define solutions
- Competence in building functional UIs with TailwindCSS
- Deep understanding of authentication and security principles
- Experience debugging performance bottlenecks in large systems
- Excellent written communication skills for documentation
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken
Nice to have
- Experience with Terraform and AWS infrastructure
- Background handling billions of requests at scale
- Contributions to open-source projects in the Rails ecosystem
Stack
- Ruby on Rails
- Ruby
- Hotwire
- Stimulus.JS
- Turbo
- TailwindCSS
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Sidekiq
- Stripe
- Terraform
- AWS
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Async-first work culture
- Results-driven environment
- Annual team retreats
What you get
- Equity share in the company
- Profit sharing program
- Direct collaboration with leadership
- Flexible remote work location
Hiring process
- 45-minute interview with CEO/CTO
- Take-home coding challenge
- 60-minute technical deep-dive interview
- 30-minute team meeting
- Reference check and offer