Salve.Inno is a recruitment and consulting firm founded in 2024 and headquartered in Gdańsk, Poland. Its small team helps businesses hire through tailored recruitment strategies, global remote sourcing, candidate screening, and career-site hiring experiences. The firm works across consulting, marketing, and logistics, with recruitment expertise spanning marketing, forex, and iGaming roles. Salve.Inno also supports organizations with communication, DE&I, and the development of more effective hiring processes, while publishing remote opportunities and providing consulting services for a global talent market.
Senior Ruby on Rails Backend Engineer
Build scalable Ruby on Rails applications for a growing AI technology company. Own complex backend features and strengthen performance, reliability, and architecture.
Description
- Build and maintain scalable backend applications with Ruby on Rails.
- Translate product requirements into technical solutions with product managers and engineering partners.
- Plan integrations, break down development work, and estimate effort.
- Develop features and improve existing application functionality.
- Write maintainable, well-tested production code.
- Review pull requests, participate in peer reviews, and test software.
- Troubleshoot issues and improve application performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, technical decisions, and roadmap planning.
- Own backend features from requirements through production deployment.
- Find and resolve technical bottlenecks as usage grows.
- Explore technologies, frameworks, and development approaches.
- Work with distributed engineering, infrastructure, SRE, and product teams.
- Improve development processes, code quality, and system architecture.
Requirements
- At least five years of commercial experience as a backend or full-stack software engineer.
- Recent hands-on experience developing and maintaining production Ruby on Rails applications.
- Ability to independently design and deliver complex backend features.
- Experience with applications serving thousands or more monthly active users.
- Strong knowledge of scalable backend architecture, application performance, and system reliability.
- Experience delivering software through requirements analysis, implementation, testing, and production deployment.
- Background in a technology startup, scale-up, or similarly fast-paced agile environment.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities, meet deadlines, and uphold high engineering standards.
- Sound understanding of software engineering principles, clean code, and automated testing.
- Experience with code reviews and cross-functional development teams.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a proactive approach to technical problems.
- Ability to work independently, own technical deliverables, and contribute to engineering decisions.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Experience working with international, fully remote teams.
- Based in Europe and available for at least three hours of overlap with Central European Time.
Benefits
- Fully remote work from anywhere in Europe.
- B2B contract.
- 20 paid working days off each year.
- Annual in-person company gathering.
- Health and wellbeing support.
- Dedicated learning and professional development budget.
- Company laptop and equipment support.
- Access to premium AI development tools, including Cursor, Claude Code, and ChatGPT.
- Direct collaboration with experienced engineering leaders, including the CTO and Tech Lead.
- Opportunity to shape technical decisions and core product architecture.
- Work on AI-powered products used by a large international user base.
- Autonomy and ownership in a fast-growing engineering environment.
- Additional benefits and professional development opportunities.