Senior Ruby Engineer (Rails)

Privy
Chicago, IL

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 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
Posted 2026-01-12

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