Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails

VERSANT is a media and entertainment company operating digital platforms and ventures across news, sports, entertainment, and related digital assets. The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, and evolve reliable, scalable digital products and technology platforms using modern engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, and AI-assisted development tools. The role will provide technical leadership, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and improve software quality, performance, scalability, and developer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable, performant, secure, and highly available systems in continuous delivery environment
• Write clean, modular and maintainable code with unit test coverage
• Implement strategies for standardizing design patterns to accelerate development velocity across the team
• Take ownership of your work and deliver high-quality results
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Help influence and prioritize work to enable efficient, iterative delivery
• Translate high-level strategies into actionable engineering tasks in partnership with product and engineering leadership
• Identify bottlenecks and system constraints, and proactively drive solutions
• Reduce technical debt and improve developer experience to keep systems modern, fast, and maintainable
• Produce technical documentation, schematics, and architecture diagrams
• Advocate for and implement best practices in testing, code quality, performance, and tooling
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Use monitoring, metrics, and logging to troubleshoot and resolve production issues with your team

Requirements:

• 5+ years of technical expertise including recent experience architecting, designing and developing technology platforms using Ruby on Rails, Node.js, JavaScript, and Type Script
• 3+ years of experience working with relational and NoSQL database platforms (MySQL, MongoDB)
• Experience working in a geographically dispersed team in a collaborative, team-driven agile software engineering environment
• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud environments, including familiarity with cloud-native architectures and services
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and design patterns
• Ability to work across multiple technologies and platforms
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable code
• Familiarity with testing best practices including unit and integration tests
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as Vue.js, Vuetify, or Angular
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST, GraphQL)
• Experience with background processing tools like Sidekiq
• Strong understanding of service-oriented and/or microservices architectures (event-driven patterns are a plus)
• Ability to contribute and grow - team-oriented mindset with strong intellectual curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
• Occasional travel is required, primarily within the United States several times a year, and, in rare but possible circumstances, global
• Some experience with modern caching technologies (Redis preferred)
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools or integrating AI/ML capabilities into products or engineering workflows
• Experience with and developing for Raspberry PI platform
• Experience developing mobile applications for IOS/Android
• Experience working in high-availability, high-traffic production environments
• Experience developing or integration with movie theater or entertainment systems
• Experience developing Point of Sale, F&B, Ticketing, Inventory or Order Management Systems
• Experience working with CRM, Loyalty and Membership solutions
• Experience integrating payment platforms, including EMV and card reader integrations
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tools
• Understanding of the mindset of “Fail Fast, Learn Fast” and continuous improvement