Staff Engineer, Integrations (RubyRails)

The Role

Were looking for an experienced thoughtful and impact-driven Staff Software Engineer (Ruby/Rails) on the Integrations team to provide technical leadership across CompanyCams engineering organization.

As a Staff Software Engineer your impact goes well beyond a single team. Youll work across teams and initiatives partnering with engineers product managers designers and engineering leadership to solve complex cross-cutting problems that move the business forward. While youll continue to contribute directly to code your primary focus will be on technical direction architectural decision-making mentorship and raising the bar for how we build software.

Most importantly youll play a key role in evolving our engineering culture practices and systems as we scale helping us make better decisions reduce risk and invest wisely in our platform developer experience and people.

Working At CompanyCam

Our engineering team is remote-first spanning every time zone in the United States. We welcome people from all backgrounds and really dont care whether or not you have a CS degree or even a high school diploma. All that matters is that youre not an a**hole and youre good at what you do.

At CompanyCam were driven to produce work with meaningful outcomes. That means not just dumping features and improvements but being able to reflect and learn from our outputs. Were actively working to center our work on continuous discovery habits (CDH) as outlined by Teresa Torres.

Our teams are made up of a product manager a product designer a tech lead and an appropriate number of engineers for the scope of your team. Rather than being overly prescriptive we provide guardrails and just enough constraints to keep teams moving. Each team is expected to collaborate iterate and refine their best practices to produce high-quality work.

What Youll Do

• Provide technical leadership across teams and projects with a focus on Integrations delivering interdependent solutions aligned with company goals.
• Design evolve and support backend systems and architecture primarily in Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL REST and related technologies.
• Influence long-term technical strategy balancing short-term delivery with platform health scalability and sustainability.
• Identify forecast and mitigate technical and operational risk across the business.
• Create clarity around technical decisions trade-offs and direction in ambiguous or high-impact situations.
• Set and uphold high standards for code quality security privacy observability and documentation through direct contribution review and mentorship.
• Consult and advise cross-functionally on complex technical challenges high-risk areas and strategic initiatives.
• Sponsor and explore new ideas tools and technologies that improve developer experience team effectiveness and product outcomes.
• Foster inclusive psychologically safe environments where engineers can do their best work and grow.
• Act as a force multiplier enabling teams and individuals without overshadowing or sidelining others.

What Youll Bring

Must-haves

These are our non-negotiables:

• Show up: Have the courage to do difficult but necessary work.
• Grow up: Take ownership learn continuously and bring a growth mindset.
• Do good: Treat your teammates and customers the way youd want to be treated.
• Extensive professional experience building and leading software systems (typically 15 years but we value impact over years).
• Advanced proficiency in Ruby on Rails and backend system design.
• Proficiency in React/React Native.
• Strong understanding of full-stack architecture monolithic application patterns and scalable backend systems.
• Experience designing and operating systems using PostgreSQL and REST APIs in production environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-hosted infrastructure including AWS.
• Strong independent judgment and ability to navigate complex ambiguous problems.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and empathetically to a wide range of audiences.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions across teams.
• You live and work permanently in the U.S. (Were not set up to hire outside the U.S.).

Nice-to-haves

Youll encounter the following technologies and concepts with varying frequency experience with them is a plus but not required:

• AWS (S3 EC2 etc.)
• Observability and monitoring systems
• Infrastructure as Code
• Feature flagging systems
• GraphQL
• Experience evaluating or integrating AI / LLM-powered tools and systems

Benefits and Compensation

This is a salaried position at CompanyCam. Our salary range is $225000 - $245000per year and is based on experience. We also offer meaningful equity and other benefits.

CompanyCam is an equal-opportunity employer committed to respect inclusion and growth. We work hard take responsibility and support each other. Great ideas come from all backgrounds and we carefully consider every applicant without regard to personal characteristics or traits. Even if your work experience doesnt align perfectly we encourage you to apply. What really matters to us is your potential your passion and your commitment to learning innovation and contributing meaningfully to our team.

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