Senior Software Engineer, Platform

CompanyCam is a photo documentation and productivity app for contractors, seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform engineering team. The role involves backend development, mentoring team members, and contributing to the evolution of engineering processes and culture.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and deliver complex, cross-cutting features and systems in Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GraphQL, and REST, and occasionally in React and React Native
• Lead efforts to address technical debt and system reliability, proactively identifying areas for refactoring or optimization
• Influence and evolve the architecture and system design, anticipating future needs and driving long-term improvements across services and applications
• Set and uphold high standards for code quality, testing coverage, and documentation, mentoring others to do the same
• Drive improvements to internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems to enhance developer experience and system resilience
• Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making, helping the team navigate trade-offs and align on best solutions
• Act as a point of escalation for complex technical challenges, supporting team members in unblocking progress
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineers, shaping feature direction by identifying technical opportunities, risks, and trade-offs early in discovery

Requirements:

• Show up: Have the courage to do difficult but necessary work
• Grow up: Take ownership, learn continuously, and bring a growth mindset
• Do good: Treat your teammates and customers the way you'd want to be treated
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails (and/or other MVC frameworks) and relational databases, with demonstrated ability to design and optimize scalable data models and APIs
• Familiarity with Redis, PostgreSQL, and Sidekiq in a production environment
• Experience contributing across the full stack, including front-end, back-end, and data layers
• Demonstrated experience in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to build, enhance, or optimize tools and features within products, driving innovation and improving user experience
• Ability to handle complex tasks and ambiguous problems without guidance
• Understanding of business trade-offs and ability to effectively communicate the risks and benefits of various technical approaches
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to lift up the team by providing mentorship and proactive feedback
• You live and work permanently in the U.S
• AWS (S3, EC2, etc.)
• ElasticSearch
• MongoDB
• React
• React Native
• Terraform (we don't write much, but familiarity is helpful)
• GraphQL
• Experience integrating with large language models (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini)