Sr. Software Engineer, ROR
HHA Exchange · United States · remote
Essential Job Duties:
- Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code to build software solutions that enable users to access and manage in-home care services.
- Design, build, and maintain reliable, high-performance Ruby on Rails services.
- Support and enhance existing products and applications, balancing new feature development with legacy system modernization.
- Own end-to-end development of features that directly drive revenue and scale the platform.
- Optimize database queries and API performance to ensure speed, efficiency, and availability.
- Contribute to architectural improvements and participate in technical design discussions.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation to maintain system health, with strong team support.
- Continuously improve code quality, testing, and deployment practices.
Other Job Duties:
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHAeXchange leader.
Travel Requirements:
- Travel 10-25%, including overnight travel
Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills:
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade Ruby on Rails applications.
- Strong proficiency with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) and software design principles.
- Proficient in Test-Driven Development (TDD) and writing maintainable, well-tested code.
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS services (e.g., ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong skills in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Comfortable working in Agile development environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- Experience supporting both legacy systems and greenfield product development
- Exposure to GraphQL APIs and domain-driven design (DDD)
- Familiarity with observability and performance tools like Datadog, New Relic, or Scout APM
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and Kubernetes-based orchestration (EKS/ECS)
- Knowledge of job queue processing (e.g., Resque, Sidekiq)
- Minimal travel of up to 2–3 days per quarter may be required (domestic or international)
- Remote-first work environment with collaborative, supportive culture