Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Plan: Portfolio Experience

Team: IT

Location: Canada

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Partner with product managers and engineers to understand user needs, shape requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and break complex initiatives into incremental, shippable solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain backend and real-time capabilities within a large-scale Ruby on Rails application, including GraphQL and REST APIs and subscriptions.
• Develop and improve portfolio planning functionality, including work item hierarchies, status rollups, capacity planning, and related planning experiences.
• Improve PostgreSQL performance and scalability through query and write optimization, indexing, denormalization, partitioning, and the appropriate use of technologies such as Elasticsearch or ClickHouse.
• Build proofs of concept for complex technical challenges and maintain comprehensive automated test coverage, with a focus on test reliability and performance.
• Support safe production releases through feature flags, observability, monitoring, and thoughtful rollout practices.
• Mentor engineers and open-source contributors through code reviews, pairing, feedback, contributor support, hiring, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Participate in on-call rotations, investigate production incidents, contribute to root cause analysis, and continuously improve engineering, development, and review processes.
• Incorporate AI-powered development tools responsibly into daily workflows to improve engineering efficiency, quality, and impact.

Requirements

• Significant experience as a software or product engineer, with strong full-stack knowledge and a current specialization in backend development.
• Advanced proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, along with a solid understanding of modern frontend architectures and technologies.
• Strong PostgreSQL expertise, including experience optimizing databases at scale through queries, writes, indexing, denormalization, and partitioning.
• Demonstrated experience designing and evolving GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs with attention to scalability, backward compatibility, and clear frontend contracts.
• Experience leading multi-engineer projects over several months and providing technical guidance through code reviews, mentoring, feedback, and collaboration.
• A strong product mindset, with the ability to represent user needs while balancing technical, product, and business considerations.
• Experience improving and maintaining large automated test suites, including their reliability and performance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly within asynchronous and geographically distributed teams.
• Experience integrating artificial intelligence into software development workflows; experience building AI-powered features is a plus.
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, or Python is advantageous.
• Ability to work effectively with colleagues, users, product partners, and open-source contributors across different locations and perspectives.
• Candidates are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification and can demonstrate relevant transferable experience.

Benefits

• Fully remote work environment, with this opportunity available to candidates based in Canada.
• Competitive compensation; the published U.S. base salary range for the corresponding level is $139,200–$235,200 USD, while compensation for Canada is determined according to applicable local market and location factors.
• Flexible paid time off designed to support autonomy and work-life balance.
• Benefits supporting employee health, financial security, and overall well-being.
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan opportunities.
• Growth and development funding to support ongoing learning and professional development.
• Parental leave.
• Team member resource groups and an inclusive, distributed work environment.
• An async-first working model that supports collaboration across locations and time zones.
• Opportunities to contribute to open-source projects, technical initiatives, mentoring, and continuous knowledge exchange.