Full Stack Engineer (Ruby on Rails)
United States
Full Time
23 hours ago
$130,000 - $150,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
JavaScriptGoRubyAIOpenAIClaudeLangChainReactRuby on RailsRailsAWSHerokuPostgreSQLCloudflarePerformance OptimizationCommunication
About this role
New York Technology Partners is partnering with a start-up subscription news agency seeking a Full-Time Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Ruby on Rails and React. The role involves developing new features, enhancing existing ones, and ensuring the reliability of the platform while contributing to a collaborative engineering team.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the development of new features and improvements, adhering to best practices and ensuring code quality
- Continuously improve technical systems to align with evolving business needs
- Ensure the reliability and performance of our internal and external facing applications through proactive support and maintenance
- Propose and implement tech-driven ideas to move the needle for the business
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues to enhance system stability and user experience
- Engage in code reviews to share feedback and exchange ideas with peers
- Contribute to a culture of learning and teaching by sharing knowledge and supporting team development
- Evolve into a Subject Matter Expert (SME), where you’ll be the go-to engineer for an area of our business
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer, with exposure to web development
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, such as Heroku and Cloudflare (which we use), AWS, or similar platforms
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug technical challenges
- Effective communication and teamwork skills, with a collaborative mindset
- A willingness to learn, share knowledge, and grow with the team
- Experience working in a server-side language (Ruby on Rails)
- Experience working in AI (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, OpenAI, Langsmith, Langchain, etc)
- Experience working in JavaScript and React
- Experience working in relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
- Understanding of database architecture
- Experience with performance optimization or scalability
- Familiarity working with a CDP platform like Segment, CustomerIO or BlueConic
- Experience working in Media / Journalism