2 months ago
Base Salary
$153k - $376k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access.
- Improve the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems supporting critical product functionality.
- Modernize the Ruby codebase by moving REST APIs from Sinatra toward Rails and introducing stronger endpoint abstractions and type safety.
- Improve hot reloading, local workflows, test infrastructure, CI reliability, debugging tools, and iteration speed.
- Strengthen scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery for the asynchronous job platform.
- Partner with product engineers and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and build reusable platform capabilities.
- Establish engineering practices through shared libraries, APIs, documentation, tooling, code review, and technical guidance.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to high technical standards and shared ownership.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years building production systems with Ruby.
- Experience building, maintaining, and evolving large Ruby applications and shared backend codebases used by multiple engineering teams.
- Experience designing reliable distributed systems at production scale, including APIs, background processing, testing, observability, and operations.
- Experience improving established systems through architecture, modularization, migrations, performance, reliability, or developer tooling.
- Ability to create scalable abstractions, navigate technical tradeoffs, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.
- Experience with background-job or workflow systems, including retries, idempotency, scheduling, backpressure, isolation, and failure recovery, is a plus.
- Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, Temporal, Kubernetes, or Terraform is a plus.
- Experience improving test performance, local development environments, CI systems, or large-scale code migrations is a plus.
Benefits
- Full-time role available from a US hub or remotely within the United States.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement benefits with company contributions.
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support.
- Mental health and wellness benefits.
- Paid time off, paid sick leave, holidays, and other applicable leave benefits.
- Flexible paid time off and flexible paid sick leave for eligible exempt employees.
- Potential company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts.
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales employees.
- In-person onboarding is required if hired.
Tech Stack
About Figma
Figma builds a browser-based platform for interface design, prototyping, whiteboarding, and developer handoff used by product, design, and engineering teams. Its main products—Figma Design and FigJam—are sold as SaaS with tiered subscriptions for individuals, teams, and enterprises, plus an ecosystem of plugins and integrations. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and enables real-time collaboration on the web and desktop apps.