About the Role
We'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 codebaseSolid understanding of data modeling and query optimization - PostgreSQL experience is a plusExperience with background job processing and strong understanding of async development patterns - Sidekiq experience is a plusExperience delivering, operating and maintaining features end-to-end in productionExperience designing and implementing APIs in Rails and an understanding of RESTful principlesStrong written communication skills and established habits communicating about your work asynchronously in writingCollaboration first mindset and proven ability to work independentlyBenefits
High autonomy with no career ceilingsChallenging and interesting workAmazing colleaguesCompetitive salary and equityWork remotelyCovered health, dental, and vision insuranceRegular team events and off-sitesUnlimited PTO and generous paid parental leave