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Senior Ruby On Rails Developer

OnTheGoSystems

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Full-time
Location
Afghanistan, Åland Islands, Zimbabwe
Seniority
Senior
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Posted 5 days ago
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Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

We’re looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails developer who enjoys owning meaningful features, building reliable systems, and working in a mature, high-trust engineering environment.

This is an individual contributor role for an experienced backend engineer who cares deeply about code quality, testing, and long-term impact.

Why Join OTGS?

- Stable & self-funded: Founded in 2007, profitable, and independent — we build for the long term.

- Industry leaders: Creators of WPML, the № 1 multilingual plugin for WordPress, powering over 1.5 million sites

- Real product impact: You’ll work on ATE, a core product at OTGS with real customers, real scale, and real technical challenges.

- Fully remote, async-friendly: Work from anywhere within EMEA hours as part of a global, distributed team.

- Engineering-driven culture: We value ownership, autonomy, testing, and thoughtful problem-solving.

- Growth without chaotic hype: Mentorship, internal mobility, and long-term career paths — without chaos.

- Fair compensation + great benefits: Designed to support your well-being both inside and outside of work.

What You’ll Do

- Own features from implementation to production within a well-defined product scope

- Build and maintain robust Ruby on Rails systems used at scale

- Work closely with product and other engineers to solve real user problems

- Write and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, and E2E)

- Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of existing systems

- Take responsibility for the quality and long-term health of what you build

What We’re Looking For

Required

- 4+ years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails

- Strong backend engineering skills and database experience

- Solid experience writing and maintaining automated tests (including E2E)

- Experience building and running production systems

- Comfortable working autonomously and taking ownership

- Strong problem-solving mindset, you look beyond tickets

- Experience with Web APIs

- Availability during EMEA working hours

Nice to Have

- Experience with React

- CI/CD experience (GitLab, Jenkins, or similar)

- Background jobs, AWS, or complex integrations

- Experience with Capybara

This Role Is a Great Fit If You:

- Take pride in ownership and accountability

- Care about testing and long-term code quality

- Prefer stable, product-focused work over short-term hype

- Enjoy collaborating with thoughtful, kind, and experienced people

- Want to make a lasting impact on a product used by thousand of real customers

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