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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** ET Environmental Corporation, LLC - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $153,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Code Review, Data Security, Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Screen Reader, Software Engineering, Backend, Modularization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Sinatra (Software), Figma, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform - **Published:** August 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/2d9d029b-8b97-40f1-b0d1-972529ccf756 ## About the Role We're looking for an experienced backend engineer with meaningful production Ruby experience who enjoys building for other engineers. You don't need to be a Ruby language specialist. You should be comfortable making informed tradeoffs in a substantial shared codebase and turning recurring problems into durable systems, tools, and paved paths that improve engineering velocity across the company., * Bring 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years building production systems with Ruby * Build, maintain, and evolve large Ruby applications and shared backend codebases that support multiple engineering teams * Design reliable distributed systems at production scale, including APIs, background processing, testing, observability, and operations * Improve complex, established systems through architecture, modularization, migrations, performance, reliability, or developer tooling * Create scalable abstractions, navigate technical tradeoffs, and collaborate with and mentor engineers across teams While not required, it's an added plus if you also have: * Experience with background-job or workflow systems, including retries, idempotency, scheduling, backpressure, isolation, and failure recovery * Experience with AWS services such as SQS and EKS, workflow systems such as Temporal, or infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform * Experience improving test performance, local development environments, CI systems, or large-scale code migrations, Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. ## Description * Design and evolve shared Ruby frameworks for REST APIs, asynchronous jobs, workflow orchestration, and data access * Improve the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of backend systems that support critical product functionality * Modernize a large Ruby codebase through safe architectural changes, including moving REST APIs from Sinatra toward Rails and introducing stronger endpoint abstractions and type safety * Make backend development faster by improving hot reloading, local workflows, test infrastructure, CI reliability, debugging tools, and iteration speed * Strengthen the scalability, isolation, observability, and recovery capabilities of Figma's asynchronous job platform * Partner with product engineers-your customers-and Infrastructure teams to identify recurring pain points and turn them into reusable platform capabilities * Establish pragmatic engineering practices through shared libraries, APIs, documentation, tooling, code review, and technical guidance * Mentor other engineers and contribute to a culture of thoughtful execution, high technical standards, and shared ownership, * Holding interviews in an accessible location * Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing * Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers * Changing the mode or format of interviews To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. 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