Role Overview

As a Senior Rails Developer and Code Reviews Lead, you will:

• Architect and implement new features in Ruby on Rails (7+).
• Champion code quality by leading and performing thorough peer reviews.
• Establish and enforce best practices, style guides, and automated tooling.
• Mentor mid- and junior-level engineers and evangelize continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Feature Development:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy critical enhancements and integrations using Rails, MySQL, Redis, and background jobs (Sidekiq/ActiveJob).

Code Review Leadership

• Own our pull-request review process
• Provide actionable feedback on design, readability, performance, and security
• Triage and coordinate review queues to maintain high engineering velocity

Best-Practice Evangelism

• Define and maintain style guides (Ruby, MySQL, Hotwire, etc.)
• Keep CI/CD pipelines green; integrate linters, static analyzers, and automated tests

Architecture & Design

• Participate in system-level design discussions and decisions (services, micro services, APIs)
• Identify and refactor technical debt
• Ensure high performance, scalability, and security of Rails applications

Mentorship

• Pair-program with teammates.
• Run onboarding sessions for new engineers.
• Help define personal development plans and track progress

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, QA, DevOps, and UI/UX teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Translate business requirements into technical designs and estimate effort

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building and shipping Ruby on Rails applications in production
• Deep understanding of Rails conventions, ActiveRecord, and the Rails request lifecycle, as well as Hybrid Database technologies, specifically MySQL 8+ Hybrid SQL/NoSQL technology
• oHands-on experience leading code reviews and setting quality standards
• Proficient with Git workflows (feature branches, rebases, pull-requsts)
• Solid background in SQL (MySQL preferred), database indexing, and query optimization
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS frameworks) and API design (REST/GraphQL).
• Experience working with background job systems (Sidekiq, Delayed Job, etc.) and caching (Redis, Memcached).
• Strong testing mindset: RSpec, Minitest, Capybara, factory_bot , etc.Excellent communication skills and a collaborative att

Preferred

• Experience with SLIM, Tailwind, containerization , and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Knowledge of microservices, event-driven architectures, or service meshes.
• Open-source contributions to Ruby/Rails ecosystem or maintaining popular gems.
• Familiarity with security best practices (OWASP, Rails security patches)
• Experience with performance profiling tools (New Relic, Skylight, rack-mini-profiler).