Lead Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

Company: a well-established US education-technology company, providing digital learning content and platforms to a large global user base for over two decades.

Location: Remote (not from Russia or Belorus).Timezone GMT 0 - GMT+2 only. Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan won't move forward due to timezone shift.

Russian or Ukrainian speaking required.

About the role: This is a technical leadership role driving architecture and delivery of complex Ruby on Rails applications used by millions of active users worldwide. You'll combine hands-on technical leadership with cross-team project ownership: architecting scalable solutions, mentoring engineers, and shaping engineering standards across the org.

What you'll do

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of Ruby on Rails applications
• Plan and oversee large technical projects involving multiple engineering teams
• Coordinate tasks and assignments within complex cross-team projects
• Drive technical direction, coding standards, and engineering best practices
• Mentor and develop junior, intermediate, and senior engineers
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Architecture teams on scalable solutions
• Identify technical risks and drive resolution strategies
• Evaluate new technologies and lead prototyping/research initiatives

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software development
• 5+ years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails
• Experience designing and scaling APIs, distributed systems, and web applications
• Experience with MySQL or other relational databases
• Experience with Git and modern CI/CD practices
• Expert-level development, debugging, testing, and analytical skills
• 2+ years of experience planning and executing cross-team technical projects
• Solid written and spoken English (interview is conducted in English)

Nice to have

• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures
• Experience integrating third-party platforms and APIs
• Expertise using generative AI tools to improve development, code quality, debugging, testing, and documentation
• Leadership, team-building, and mentoring experience

Offer

• Stable job with a long-established American company: many team members with 5+ years tenure
• Significant ownership and responsibility for the systems you develop
• Budget up to $6k gross
• Friendly, supportive team
• Cutting-edge, open-source tech stack and large-scale global applications

Contract: IP (sole proprietor) only, incubator schemes not accepted.

Skills

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• APIs
• MySQL
• Git
• CI/CD
• Distributed systems
• Microservices