Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Remote

Overview

Nift is redefining how customers discover new businesses. With millions of people using Nift each month, our real-time AI platform is built for massive scale on AWS. Our small but nimble product team loves tackling big complex engineering challenges. We look for smart engineers who are passionate about building, owning, and scaling features, while finding creative solutions to technical obstacles.

In Short

• Own your assigned development projects from start to finish.
• Collaborate with our Chief Architect to design, optimize, enhance and evolve our AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ECS, etc.).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and monitor system health.
• Contribute to architectural decisions across the stack.
• Troubleshoot performance and infrastructure issues, and proactively identify areas for improvement.
• Write clean, tested, maintainable code—and help others do the same through code reviews.

Requirements

• Proficient in Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with SQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ECS, etc.) or Google Cloud infrastructure in a commercial setting.
• Comfortable with CI/CD workflows and Linux environments.
• Strong grasp of software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Able to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Able to persevere through engineering challenges.
• Open to new ideas and methods of problem solving.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits (401K, Medical/Dental/Vision).
• Flexible remote work.
• Unlimited Responsible PTO.
• Great opportunity to join a growing, cash-flow-positive company while having a direct impact on Nift's revenue, growth, scale, and future success.