Ruby on Rails Developer (Mid-level)

Description

Job Summary: Develop and maintain internal tools, APIs, and optimize performance, costs, and security, collaborating with the CTO and Product Manager to transform businesses. Key Highlights: 1. Production experience with web back-ends and Ruby on Rails Fullstack 2. Develop internal tools and APIs, optimize performance and security 3. Ownership mindset, sense of urgency, and customer focus **Open positions for those who want to transform businesses and their careers!** --------------------------------------------------------------------- ### **Desired Qualifications** • Experience with video pipelines (upload, transcoding, CDN, DRM). • Advanced observability (New Relic/Sentry), feature flags, blue\-green/canary deployments. • Kubernetes/Docker and deployment automation. • Cloud cost optimization and advanced database tuning. • External integrations (webhooks, authentication, BI).### **What You'll Get** NOTE: Initial 3-month engagement via UDS, followed by direct hiring by the client subject to performance. As a PJ contractor, you’ll interface with both companies but work more closely with the client. At UDS, you’ll also have access to: Managerial mentoring; Training programs; Flexible working hours; Work equipment; Corporate UDEMY account access; AWS certification support.### **Job Requirements** • 3–5+ years of production experience with web back-ends. • Hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails Fullstack (or strong foundation in another MVC framework). • Hotwire • Tailwind • ActionView / ActionPack • Relational databases: modeling, transactions, tuning. • Redis/queues and asynchronous processing (Sidekiq/Resque or equivalent). • HTTP/REST: versioning, idempotency, pagination, rate limiting. • Automated testing and CI/CD. • AWS (or similar cloud): S3, CloudFront, EC2/Lambda, IAM, VPC. • Practical use of AI tools for development (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.). • Ownership mindset, sense of urgency, and customer focus### **Your Responsibilities** • Develop and maintain \*\*internal tools\*\* (CS/Admin): CRUD operations, reports, automations, integrations. • Design, develop, and maintain REST APIs for player, dashboard, and integrations. • Data modeling: indexes, query optimization, safe migrations. • Asynchronous jobs: queues, idempotency, retries, dead\-letter queues. • Observability: structured logs, metrics, tracing, SLOs/SLIs. • Performance and cost: propose improvements balancing speed and economy. • Security: authentication/authorization, abuse prevention, OWASP compliance. • Quality: automated tests, PR reviews, coding standards, and CI. • Close collaboration with the CTO and PM on technical prioritization and roadmap.### **A Quick Reminder...** At UDS, we hire competent people eager to **drive transformation through their expertise.** This is independent of your region, age, ethnicity or race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Do your skills match the role? **That’s all that matters.** Do your profile and values align with ours? **Join us in creating transformation.**