Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)
Employer · Diligent
Software developerWeb and multimedia developerApplications developerFull-timeBudapest
As a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer at Diligent, you will play a hands-on role in designing, building, and evolving secure, scalable, and high-performing SaaS applications and services. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys owning technical delivery across projects, shaping backend architecture, and contributing to the long-term modernization of our platform.
Tasks
- Design, build, review, test, and maintain Ruby on Rails features and services in line with Diligent's agile engineering practices.
- Own technical delivery for projects, epics, and major user stories, including solution design, implementation planning, and execution through to production.
- Develop and evolve RESTful APIs and web applications with a strong focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance.
- Contribute to architectural decisions, prototype solutions where needed, and help separate major components and subsystems as products evolve.
- Partner effectively with Product, QA, DevOps, Security, and other engineering teams to ensure smooth delivery of working software into production.
- Champion code quality through thoughtful code reviews, automated testing, documentation, continuous improvement of engineering practices, and sensible use of AI tools for coding, debugging, and prototyping with appropriate human validation.
- Mentor other engineers, share knowledge across the team, and help raise the bar on technical execution and delivery discipline.
Conditions & benefits
Culture and InnovationCreativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature.Work EnvironmentDiligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs.Diversity and InclusionGrowing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in a commercial software environment, with strong hands-on experience building web applications and services.
- Excellent understanding of Ruby on Rails and practical experience delivering production-grade backend or full-stack applications with it.
- Strong experience with API and web development, including RESTful service design and implementation.
- Experience designing secure software in environments that embrace DevOps, infrastructure as code, and automated delivery practices.
- Solid understanding of microservices or service-oriented architectures and the trade-offs involved in distributed systems.
- Familiarity with source control systems such as Git and GitHub, along with common collaboration and branching workflows.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to mentor peers, contribute to engineering standards, and help break down larger initiatives into executable work.
- Working knowledge of SQL and data modeling, with the ability to reason about application performance and persistence-layer design.