Backend Engineer (Ruby)

Location: Remote, United Kingdom

Company

Builds an intelligent DevSecOps orchestration platform that helps organizations improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, security, compliance, and software delivery.

What you will do

• Lead backend features from product discussions and technical design through implementation, rollout, and post-launch learning.
• Build flows, APIs, and data models for agent-generated work items, implementation plans, durable specifications, and mergeable code.
• Develop evaluation and benchmarking systems for workflow quality, token cost, and success rate.
• Build reliable production systems with Ruby on Rails, Python, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, REST, an agent platform, LLM APIs, and an AI gateway.
• Shape scope and trade-offs with product, design, engineers, design partners, and users in an asynchronous all-remote environment.
• Coordinate multi-person projects, mentor engineers, communicate technical decisions, and contribute to technical direction.

Requirements

• Strong Ruby on Rails experience in a large production codebase and production experience with Python.
• Experience driving substantial projects with several engineers over multiple months and delivering clear user or business outcomes.
• Product mindset and end-to-end feature ownership, including scope definition, trade-offs, user engagement, and post-launch adoption learning.
• Full-stack background with a current focus on backend engineering, ability to read modern frontend code, and ability to design effective APIs.
• Strong API design and SQL fundamentals.
• Experience exploring AI-assisted development.
• Ability to work independently, collaborate across functions and regions, provide technical leadership, and mentor others.

Nice to have

• Experience with GraphQL, PostgreSQL performance at scale, or building and evaluating LLM or agent systems.

Culture & Benefits

• All-remote, async-first environment with weekly sync calls, retrospectives, demos, and short iterations.
• Small distributed team of four engineers across Canada and Europe, with broad ownership and early-stage work.
• Flexible paid time off, parental leave, health and well-being benefits, and equity compensation.
• Growth and Development Fund and Team Member Resource Groups.
• AI is treated as a core productivity multiplier, with team members expected to incorporate it into daily workflows.