Staff Software Engineer – Ruby/Rails

Victory Live • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

Victory Live is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own the technologies and processes that power our B2B marketplace on Ruby on Rails and Hanami. You'll ship features across several business-critical monoliths and microservices, retire technical debt, and set the standards other engineers build against. This is a chance to shape one of our main revenue engines at a premier live event ticketing company.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails; experience with Hanami is a plus.
• Strong experience building and maintaining high-throughput backend services and APIs at scale.
• Deep understanding of software engineering best practices.
• Familiarity with the rest of our stack: Redis, Kafka, Postgres, Datadog, Grafana, Kubernetes, Helm, Kong, Terraform, Docker, GitHub.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as RDS, ElastiCache, CloudSearch, EKS, and MSK.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of live ticket sales or experience working within a fast-paced industry.
• Mentorship and leadership experience guiding onshore and offshore teams.
• Genuine interest in growing the engineers around you and shaping team culture, even without a formal management track.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams to influence engineering work, ensuring decisions align with divisional strategy.
• Drive large-scale technical initiatives in our Rails and Hanami services, solving highly complex problems and shipping scalable, secure solutions.
• Provide guidance and support to engineers, helping them grow and work through hard technical problems.
• Work with Architects to design and implement system-level solutions within company standards.
• Define and promote engineering best practices across teams, from RSpec coverage to service boundaries.
• Identify and pay down technical debt in legacy Rails code to keep it maintainable.
• Hold the team's code to a high bar through rigorous review, consistent with our quality program.
• Write high-quality code yourself on the most complex and critical work.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage
• 100% employer-paid dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off and company holidays
• Employee wellness and professional development opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed