Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Location: Hybrid in Athens, Attica, Greece

Company

hirify.global is a travel tech startup delivering personalised in-destination travel services, including transfers, sightseeing trips, and local travel information.

What you will do

• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and integrations with a focus on reliability, performance, and data integrity.
• Deliver complete product features across the stack, contributing to frontend work with existing components and patterns.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, designers, and engineers to shape solutions and make technical trade-offs.
• Own testing, releases, production monitoring, and follow-up improvements for delivered features.
• Improve the codebase through refactoring and code reviews, and contribute to team processes and development practices.
• Use AI coding tools while validating generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience building and maintaining production applications, including strong backend expertise.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or another modern backend framework, with willingness to work with Rails.
• Practical experience with React or another modern frontend framework, with willingness to contribute across the stack.
• Strong knowledge of API design, relational databases, and SQL, with PostgreSQL or comparable database experience.
• Familiarity with search engines, background job processing, and automated testing; the stack includes Elasticsearch, Sidekiq, Minitest, and Playwright.
• Ability to understand and extend existing codebases, with solid debugging, maintainability, and Git practices.
• Ability to independently drive work to completion, communicate progress and risks, and improve team practices.
• Experience using AI coding tools and critically evaluating their output to make sound engineering decisions.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work-from-home policy within a hybrid work environment.
• Vibrant, diverse, learning-oriented workplace focused on quality, simplicity, usability, and continuous improvement.
• Learning and development personal budget.
• Private insurance plan.
• Four additional paid time-off days annually.
• Tools and resources required for daily work.