Mid-Level Software Engineer

Authorium is a GovTech SaaS platform that unifies procurement, contract lifecycle management, grants, budget, and legislative workflows for state and local government agencies. The engineer will work on platform features, focusing on workflow orchestration, document management, and cross-cutting components, while collaborating with both onshore and offshore teams.

Responsibilities:

• Ship 2-4 epics per release cycle across our four use cases, with a focus on Procurement/CLM (our highest-ARR workflow)
• Build and maintain features in Ruby on Rails (backend) within our modular monolith architecture
• Write comprehensive tests (unit, integration, system) maintaining 85%+ code coverage enforced via Codecov
• Participate in code review with 24-hour turnaround SLA. Give and receive substantive feedback
• Own your work end-to-end: from epic breakdown with Product, through implementation, QA validation, and deployment to staging/production
• Contribute to cross-cutting platform components: Smart Tables, approvals engine, document generation, search/filtering, permissions
• Diagnose and fix bugs triaged through our P0-P4 priority system, with particular attention to customer-impacting issues
• Pass all automated quality gates on every PR: RuboCop, Brakeman, Erblint, Eslint, Codecov, Packwerk, SonarQube
• Participate in on-call rotation (onshore team, primary/secondary model) for production incident response
• Partner with Product Managers to break down epics into estimable stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Work with Solutions Engineers to understand customer configuration needs and ensure features are implementation-ready
• Contribute to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for significant technical decisions
• Use AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) effectively to increase velocity without sacrificing quality

Requirements:

• 3+ years building and maintaining production Ruby on Rails applications
• Experience with PostgreSQL (or similar relational databases), including query optimization and data modeling
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, tested, maintainable code with 85%+ coverage
• Experience with Git workflows, code review, and CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of RESTful API design principles and implementation
• Security awareness: OWASP fundamentals, input validation, authentication/authorization patterns
• Effective use of AI-assisted development tools in daily workflow
• US-based
• Experience in GovTech, compliance-heavy, or FedRAMP/SOC 2 environments
• Experience with document processing, PDF generation, or rich text editors (CKEditor)
• Familiarity with modular monoliths (modular Packwerk Rails architecture)
• Experience with AWS (ECS, CloudWatch, RDS)
• Background working with offshore engineering teams