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Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails

Job Description

The email industry is built on delivering to inboxes. At Postmark you’ll find a passionate team dedicated to making sure emails get where they need to go. Postmark leads the transactional email and delivery space with a developer driven, API focused product sending billions of emails every month. For engineers, by engineers.

We’re growing the engineering team and this role could be right for you if you’re passionate about Ruby on Rails, APIs that can stand the test of time, truly impactful work, solving tough problems in distributed systems, and enjoy small company vibes within a bigger one.


What your day could consist of:
  • Architect and implement scalable, maintainable applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams (infrastructure, data engineering, BI, etc.)
  • Lead technical design discussion for new features or enhancements
  • Design and implement features and functionality with critical technical skills
  • Work closely with product and engineering managers to translate requirements into technical specifications
  • Review code from teammates, providing constructive feedback to maintain high code quality standards
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues with minimal downtime
  • Mentor junior developers through pair programming and technical guidance
  • Document technical decisions and implementations for future reference and knowledge sharing

  • You are a strong fit if:
  • You are passionate about software development and solving tough problems the right way.
  • You build with a customer, user experience, and data driven mindset.
  • You want to learn about the industry you work in and the customers you build for.
  • You approach conversations and opportunities with curiosity and thoughtfulness

  • What is needed:
  • 5+ years Ruby on Rails experience
  • 1+ years of Typescript and React
  • You have have mastery of Ruby on Rails, paradigms, patterns, and tooling
  • You have experience with MySQL, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and SQS
  • You have built and maintained large, highly-reliable monolithic applications
  • You have shipped large features at scale with the testing behind it to ship confidently
  • You have shipped complex, well designed REST APIs to customers at scale
  • You have built highly-observable systems based on quality metrics and telemetry
  • You have experience writing and maintaining custom Gems
  • You have worked in distributed systems on cloud infrastructure