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# Ruby/Rails -Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** Sophus IT Solutions
- **Location:** Medina, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Migration Manager, Ruby, Next.js, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Network Routers, Integrated Service Routers, ReactJS, Delivery Pipeline, Caching, Technical Debt, Production Code, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75193970-ruby-rails-deployed-engineer

## About the Role

? 6+ years of professional software-engineering experience.

? At least 2 years in a customer-facing technical role such as consulting, professional services, solutions architecture, or forward-deployed engineering.

? Expert-level TypeScript and strong React engineering experience.

? Deep, recent, production-level Next.js experience.

? Proven ownership of at least one substantial legacy-application or large-codebase migration.

? Strong understanding of incremental modernization rather than only "big-bang" rewrites.

Strongly preferred

? Direct production experience deploying applications on Vercel.

? Ruby/Rails-to-Next.js modernization experience.

? Migration from Pages Router to App Router.

? Vercel AI SDK, AI Gateway, eve, Fluid Compute, Workflows, Sandbox, and Observability.

? Experience with high-volume retail, e-commerce, media, healthcare, or financial-services applications.

? Enterprise security, compliance, identity, and multi-region deployment experience.

? AI-assisted migration or code-transformation automation experience.

## Description

You will work alongside a named Vercel Forward-Deployed Engineer who provides technical architecture and delivery assurance. You and the Sophus team will execute the assessment, migration, engineering, testing, CI/CD, deployment, and stabilization work.

This is not an advisory-only or front-end UI role. You must be comfortable entering an ambiguous legacy environment, defining an incremental migration path, writing production code, and owning delivery outcomes.

Responsibilities

? Assess legacy Ruby/Rails applications, AWS architecture, dependencies, APIs, data flows, infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and technical debt.

? Translate the assessment into an incremental migration strategy with defined workstreams, risks, acceptance criteria, coexistence patterns, cutover plans, and rollback procedures.

? Modernize legacy front ends and monolithic applications to React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Vercel.

? Build production applications using Next.js App Router, React Server Components, SSR, SSG, ISR, streaming, caching, and personalization.

? Preserve necessary Ruby/Rails and AWS services during staged migration while progressively moving appropriate workloads to Vercel.


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