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Staff Engineer, Ruby on Rails - Belfast
£100,000 - 100,000
Ocho
Callender Street, Belfast
£100,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- 8-10 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong experience with Ruby on Rails in production environments
- Deep understanding of backend systems, APIs and service architecture
- Strong experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Proven experience working within complex or legacy product environments
- Ability to influence technical direction beyond individual contributions
- Strong ownership mindset across design, delivery and production support
- Excellent collaboration skills across engineering, product and platform teams
- Clear communicator with the ability to drive alignment across stakeholders
Nice to Have:
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React preferred)
- Exposure to data-heavy systems or analytics platforms
- Experience with AWS or cloud-native environments
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD and SRE practices
- Experience working in regulated or operationally complex domains
Responsibilities
- Act as a Staff-level technical leader across multiple product teams
- Drive backend architecture and system design within Ruby on Rails applications
- Lead scalability, performance and reliability initiatives from design through to production
- Improve system health by addressing legacy complexity, technical debt and architectural gaps
- Serve as a go-to technical expert for complex system and domain challenges
- Collaborate with Product to translate business workflows into scalable technical solutions
- Partner with Platform and SRE teams to improve observability, reliability and operational standards
- Elevate engineering standards through mentoring, design reviews and knowledge sharing
Description
We are a high-growth technology organization investing heavily in our product platform to support complex and mission-critical workflows at scale. We are looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer who will act as a technical leader across backend-heavy products, focusing on improving system scalability, reliability, and long-term architecture. Our team is passionate about delivering robust solutions and elevating engineering standards, offering opportunities for professional growth and collaboration.
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