Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails role is fully remote and primarily performed from the employee’s residence; the listing identifies Orlando, FL, and occasional travel within the United States several times a year, with rare possible global travel. Compensation is not specified. The role supports Versant’s engineering team in building digital products for its media and entertainment brands. The engineer designs and evolves reliable, scalable technology platforms, contributes hands-on code, and influences architecture and engineering practices. The work helps deliver secure, high-quality products while improving performance, maintainability, and developer experience.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable, performant, secure, highly available systems
• write maintainable code with unit tests
• standardize design patterns
• collaborate across the software development lifecycle
• translate strategy into engineering tasks
• identify bottlenecks and reduce technical debt
• document architecture
• advocate for testing, code quality, performance, and tooling practices
• participate in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing
• use monitoring, metrics, and logging to troubleshoot production issues.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

ruby on rails

remote

versant media

digital products

cloud-native architecture

node.js

javascript

typescript

mysql

mongodb

api development

occasional travel

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• The posting references health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits without specifying individual plan details.

Why this role

Fully remote role; occasional U.S. travel several times a year and rare possible global travel; Ruby on Rails, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, databases, cloud platforms, and APIs are among the listed technologies.

About the employer

Versant Media is hiring for this role. Industry: Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers. Sector: 51.