Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer at Figment

Figment, a leading provider of staking solutions, is seeking a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer. This role involves designing, developing, and scaling Figment’s staking infrastructure. The engineer will lead backend development initiatives, drive architectural improvements, and ensure the APIs and services are performant, secure, and scalable.

The Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer will collaborate with engineers, product managers, security experts, and other stakeholders to build and optimize backend services, enhance database performance, and develop APIs that abstract the complexity of blockchain SDKs. As a senior team member, they will take ownership of complex projects, solve challenging problems independently, and mentor junior engineers.

Figment offers a 100% remote-first environment with additional co-working spaces in several cities, competitive benefits, and opportunities for career development.

• Designing and developing scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails.
• Optimizing relational database structures and queries for performance and scalability.
• Building and maintaining secure, high-performance APIs (RESTful and GraphQL).
• Contributing to architectural decisions, distributed system design, and microservices strategies.
• Developing JavaScript-based APIs to facilitate blockchain integrations.
• Mentoring junior engineers, sharing best practices, and fostering technical growth.
• Improving performance, reliability, and security across backend systems.
• Leading technical initiatives and working independently to solve complex challenges.
• Collaborating with product and engineering leadership to align technical priorities with business goals.

• Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails and building scalable web applications.
• Deep understanding of database modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Strong background in distributed systems, microservices, and system architecture.
• Experience with background processing systems (Sidekiq, Redis).
• Familiarity with JavaScript and working with third-party libraries.
• Ability to lead projects, drive technical strategy, and mentor engineers.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Strong bias towards simplicity and maintainability.

• 100% remote-first environment.
• 4 weeks of PTO that kick in day one, with an additional 1 week of flex days.
• Extended company-paid health benefits that kick in day one.
• Best in class parental leave and flexible arrangements.
• A home office stipend to create a space that you enjoy working in.
• Monthly Wifi reimbursement.
• A yearly Learning & Development budget.
• 401K (US) or RRSP match (Canada).
• Stock Options in the company.
• A competitive bonus (based on company performance) that is distributed bi-annually.
• Annual onsite company gatherings and retreats to inspire team bonding, collaboration, and fun!