Top Benefits
About the role
About the RoleWe're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen our Ruby and Rails team. This role is well suited for someone at the senior boundary - either newly senior or an experienced mid-level engineer ready to level up. The ideal candidate is hungry to grow, ready to take ownership of complex features, and can work effectively as a technical partner to experienced senior and staff engineers.
This role will be building customer facing capabilities on our core marketing automation platform serving thousands of e-commerce businesses.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement features and capabilities for Privy’s multi-channel marketing platform
- Contribute to API and integration framework enabling deep integration between Privy and partner applications.
- Develop triggers, filters, and actions for Privy’s Flow automation product.
- Partner with senior and staff engineers on system architecture and scaling decisions
- Optimize application performance for high-volume data processing, real-time messaging, and advanced real-time list segmentation
- Review code and help maintain a high bar for both the product and engineering standards
- Participate in the on-call rotation and incident response
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of backend development experience with at least 3 working in a production Ruby on Rails codebase
- Solid understanding of data modeling and query optimization - PostgreSQL experience is a plus
- Experience with background job processing and strong understanding of async development patterns - Sidekiq experience is a plus
- Experience delivering, operating and maintaining features end-to-end in production
- Experience designing and implementing APIs in Rails and an understanding of RESTful principles
- Strong written communication skills and established habits communicating about your work asynchronously in writing
- Collaboration first mindset and proven ability to work independently
Benefits
- High autonomy with no career ceilings
- Challenging and interesting work
- Amazing colleagues
- Competitive salary and equity
- Work remotely
- Covered health, dental, and vision insurance
- Regular team events and off-sites
- Unlimited PTO and generous paid parental leave
Top Benefits
About the role
About the RoleWe're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to strengthen our Ruby and Rails team. This role is well suited for someone at the senior boundary - either newly senior or an experienced mid-level engineer ready to level up. The ideal candidate is hungry to grow, ready to take ownership of complex features, and can work effectively as a technical partner to experienced senior and staff engineers.
This role will be building customer facing capabilities on our core marketing automation platform serving thousands of e-commerce businesses.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement features and capabilities for Privy’s multi-channel marketing platform
- Contribute to API and integration framework enabling deep integration between Privy and partner applications.
- Develop triggers, filters, and actions for Privy’s Flow automation product.
- Partner with senior and staff engineers on system architecture and scaling decisions
- Optimize application performance for high-volume data processing, real-time messaging, and advanced real-time list segmentation
- Review code and help maintain a high bar for both the product and engineering standards
- Participate in the on-call rotation and incident response
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of backend development experience with at least 3 working in a production Ruby on Rails codebase
- Solid understanding of data modeling and query optimization - PostgreSQL experience is a plus
- Experience with background job processing and strong understanding of async development patterns - Sidekiq experience is a plus
- Experience delivering, operating and maintaining features end-to-end in production
- Experience designing and implementing APIs in Rails and an understanding of RESTful principles
- Strong written communication skills and established habits communicating about your work asynchronously in writing
- Collaboration first mindset and proven ability to work independently
Benefits
- High autonomy with no career ceilings
- Challenging and interesting work
- Amazing colleagues
- Competitive salary and equity
- Work remotely
- Covered health, dental, and vision insurance
- Regular team events and off-sites
- Unlimited PTO and generous paid parental leave