Mission.dev
Back End Developer (Ruby on Rails)
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Agreement type:
full-time employee, 40 hours per week, hired directly by the client.
Location of the engineer:
Remote 100%. Candidates can be based anywhere in the U.S., but a Boston, MA, or East Coast location is preferred for collaboration.
Our company description Mission is a platform for hiring, vetting, and managing software development talent. It enables our clients to connect with the world’s best talent to build mission-critical software products.
About the client A fully remote company transforming digital advertising by helping brands connect with new consumers through performance-driven marketing. Profitable, fast-growing, and trusted by leading brands across ecommerce, entertainment, travel, and consumer goods, this organization offers a unique opportunity to join a high-growth team at a pivotal stage of expansion.
About the role As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own projects end to end, write clean and reliable code, and play a key role in scaling our AWS infrastructure. This is a high impact role with direct visibility into how your work drives growth.
To succeed, you must be data driven, with a passion for continuously measuring and improving customer experience, and a natural focus on AWS, scalability, and performance.
What You’ll Do
Own your assigned development projects from start to finish
Collaborate with our Chief Architect to design, optimize, enhance and evolve our AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ECS, etc.)
Implement CI/CD pipelines and monitor system health
Contribute to architectural decisions across the stack
Troubleshoot performance and infrastructure issues, and proactively identify areas for improvement
Write clean, tested, maintainable code—and help others do the same through code reviews
What You Bring
Minimum of 10 years of professional experience as a Backend / Infrastructure Software Engineer
Proficient in Ruby onRails
Experience with SQL data bases
Hands‑on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ECS, etc.) or Google Cloud infrastructure in a commercial setting
Comfortable with CI/CD workflows and Linux environments
Strong grasp of software architecture principles and design patterns
Able to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Able to persevere through engineering challenges: willingness to embrace and not shy away from a problem you haven’t seen before
Open to new ideas and methods of problem solving
Passion for backend and infrastructure development
Ownership Mindset: Proactive and self‑driven with a strong sense of initiative, consistently taking responsibility, and exceeds expectations
Team Tech
StackRuby on
RailsPost
greSQ
LRSpecJava
Scrip
tHTML5
Vue.js
Redis
Preferred Skills
Experience with distributed systems
Experience performance tuning and scaling systems with high volumes of user traffic
Experience with Apache Spark
Familiarity with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or NoSQL
What you get
Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits (401K, Medical/Dental/Vision), and we offer all full‑time employees the potential to hold company equity
Unlimited Responsible PTO
Great opportunity to join a growing, cash‑flow‑positive company while having a direct impact on revenue, growth, scale, and future success.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Information Technology and Engineering
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Agreement type:
full-time employee, 40 hours per week, hired directly by the client.
Location of the engineer:
Remote 100%. Candidates can be based anywhere in the U.S., but a Boston, MA, or East Coast location is preferred for collaboration.
Our company description Mission is a platform for hiring, vetting, and managing software development talent. It enables our clients to connect with the world’s best talent to build mission-critical software products.
About the client A fully remote company transforming digital advertising by helping brands connect with new consumers through performance-driven marketing. Profitable, fast-growing, and trusted by leading brands across ecommerce, entertainment, travel, and consumer goods, this organization offers a unique opportunity to join a high-growth team at a pivotal stage of expansion.
About the role As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own projects end to end, write clean and reliable code, and play a key role in scaling our AWS infrastructure. This is a high impact role with direct visibility into how your work drives growth.
To succeed, you must be data driven, with a passion for continuously measuring and improving customer experience, and a natural focus on AWS, scalability, and performance.
What You’ll Do
Own your assigned development projects from start to finish
Collaborate with our Chief Architect to design, optimize, enhance and evolve our AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ECS, etc.)
Implement CI/CD pipelines and monitor system health
Contribute to architectural decisions across the stack
Troubleshoot performance and infrastructure issues, and proactively identify areas for improvement
Write clean, tested, maintainable code—and help others do the same through code reviews
What You Bring
Minimum of 10 years of professional experience as a Backend / Infrastructure Software Engineer
Proficient in Ruby onRails
Experience with SQL data bases
Hands‑on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ECS, etc.) or Google Cloud infrastructure in a commercial setting
Comfortable with CI/CD workflows and Linux environments
Strong grasp of software architecture principles and design patterns
Able to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Able to persevere through engineering challenges: willingness to embrace and not shy away from a problem you haven’t seen before
Open to new ideas and methods of problem solving
Passion for backend and infrastructure development
Ownership Mindset: Proactive and self‑driven with a strong sense of initiative, consistently taking responsibility, and exceeds expectations
Team Tech
StackRuby on
RailsPost
greSQ
LRSpecJava
Scrip
tHTML5
Vue.js
Redis
Preferred Skills
Experience with distributed systems
Experience performance tuning and scaling systems with high volumes of user traffic
Experience with Apache Spark
Familiarity with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or NoSQL
What you get
Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits (401K, Medical/Dental/Vision), and we offer all full‑time employees the potential to hold company equity
Unlimited Responsible PTO
Great opportunity to join a growing, cash‑flow‑positive company while having a direct impact on revenue, growth, scale, and future success.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Information Technology and Engineering
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