Ruby Labs

Senior Backend Engineer

EuropeRemotePosted 1 day ago

Full TimeSeniorRemote

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Job Description

About usRuby Labs is a leading tech company that creates and operates innovative consumer products. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across the health, education, and entertainment industries

Key Highlights

Deliver new backend features with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.
Maintain, optimize, and improve existing services and infrastructure.
Design, deploy, and operate backend services across AWS, Cloudflare, and other environments.
Implement and evolve monitoring and observability using tools such as Sentry, OpenTelemetry (OTel), logging, alerting, and related platforms.
Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed systems.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Deep expertise in distributed systems, system design, and backend architecture.
Strong understanding of database fundamentals, indexing, consistency, replication, transactions, and storage trade-offs.
Proven ability to design scalable and resilient systems.
Fluency in Node.js backend development.
Strong grasp of software engineering principles, including SOLID.
Experience debugging complex issues in production environments.
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and backend service deployment.
Experience implementing monitoring and observability using tools such as Sentry and OpenTelemetry (OTel), including tracing, logging, and alerting.
High standards for code quality, reliability, and communication.
Deep knowledge of Redis, including caching, pub/sub, queues, replication, persistence, and performance tuning.
Strong experience with AWS services, including compute, serverless, networking, storage, security, and infrastructure-as-code.
Experience with Cloudflare Workers, edge routing, caching, and security primitives.
Familiarity with Sentry performance monitoring and OpenTelemetry instrumentation at scale.
Comfortable working in timezone ±2 hours from UK time.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, system design, and backend architecture.
Strong understanding of database fundamentals, indexing, consistency, replication, transactions, and storage trade-offs.
Proven ability to design scalable and resilient systems.
Fluency in Node.js backend development.
Strong grasp of software engineering principles, including SOLID.
Experience debugging complex issues in production environments.
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and backend service deployment.
Experience implementing monitoring and observability using tools such as Sentry and OpenTelemetry (OTel), including tracing, logging, and alerting.
High standards for code quality, reliability, and communication.
Deep knowledge of Redis, including caching, pub/sub, queues, replication, persistence, and performance tuning.
Strong experience with AWS services, including compute, serverless, networking, storage, security, and infrastructure-as-code.
Experience with Cloudflare Workers, edge routing, caching, and security primitives.
Familiarity with Sentry performance monitoring and OpenTelemetry instrumentation at scale.
Comfortable working in timezone ±2 hours from UK time.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in startup environments or small, high-autonomy engineering teams.
Passion for building and improving infrastructure, developer experience, and observability.
Experience working in startup environments or small, high-autonomy engineering teams.
Passion for building and improving infrastructure, developer experience, and observability.

Skills & Technologies

AWSNode.jsRedisRubyGo

About the Company

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Job Details

Employment Type

Full Time

Experience Level

Senior

Location

Europe

Work Mode

Remote

Posted

1 day ago