Senior Software Engineer, Platform

CompanyCam

10d•$175,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

CompanyCam is a photo documentation and productivity app for contractors. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) to join their engineering team. This role involves working on various initiatives, from large company projects to bug fixes, with a primary focus on backend development. The ideal candidate will be T-shaped, comfortable contributing across different areas like frontend code or mobile support. A key aspect of this role is actively contributing to the evolution of the engineering team's culture and processes, particularly in backend engineering, and mentoring other developers.

Requirements

Show up: Have the courage to do difficult but necessary work.
Grow up: Take ownership, learn continuously, and bring a growth mindset.
Do good: Treat your teammates and customers the way you'd want to be treated.
5+ years of professional software development experience.
Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails (and/or other MVC frameworks) and relational databases, with demonstrated ability to design and optimize scalable data models and APIs.
Familiarity with Redis, PostgreSQL, and Sidekiq in a production environment.
Experience contributing across the full stack, including front-end, back-end, and data layers.
Demonstrated experience in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to build, enhance, or optimize tools and features within products, driving innovation and improving user experience.
Ability to handle complex tasks and ambiguous problems without guidance.
Understanding of business trade-offs and ability to effectively communicate the risks and benefits of various technical approaches.
Strong collaboration skills with the ability to lift up the team by providing mentorship and proactive feedback.
You live and work permanently in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

AWS (S3, EC2, etc.)
ElasticSearch
MongoDB
React
React Native
Terraform (we don’t write much, but familiarity is helpful)
GraphQL
Experience integrating with large language models (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini)

Responsibilities

Design, implement and deliver complex, cross-cutting features and systems in Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, and REST, and occasionally in React and React Native.
Lead efforts to address technical debt and system reliability, proactively identifying areas for refactoring or optimization.
Influence and evolve the architecture and system design, anticipating future needs and driving long-term improvements across services and applications.
Set and uphold high standards for code quality, testing coverage, and documentation, mentoring others to do the same.
Drive improvements to internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems to enhance developer experience and system resilience.
Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making, helping the team navigate trade-offs and align on best solutions.
Act as a point of escalation for complex technical challenges, supporting team members in unblocking progress.
Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers, shaping feature direction by identifying technical opportunities, risks, and trade-offs early in discovery.