Staff Fullstack Engineer - Ruby on Rails

About the role

Andela is transitioning from a talent marketplace into an AI-integrated Talent Cloud. As a Staff Full-Stack Engineer on the Internal Product team, you will own the technical evolution of the company's proprietary Ruby on Rails ecosystem, solving deep-stack challenges in matching logic, global payments and automated vetting. The role suits a player-coach who thrives on complex problems, elegant code and long-term architectural vision.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the architectural evolution of Ruby on Rails applications so they stay performant, maintainable and secure as they scale.
• Deliver high-quality full-stack code, using Ruby on Rails on the backend and modern frontend frameworks (typically React) on the frontend.
• Identify and resolve Rails bottlenecks such as N+1 queries, indexing and caching strategies, and optimise system latency.
• Conduct rigorous code reviews, define CI/CD standards and mentor other engineers.
• Work with stakeholders to turn product vision into technical roadmaps, balancing speed against technical debt.

Required profile

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years focused on Ruby on Rails.
• Exceptional English skills and the ability to influence technical decisions with distributed teams.
• A proven track record of thriving in a fast-paced, remote-first environment.
• Servant leadership style: shares credit, breaks silos, listens to feedback, takes ownership and solves business problems.

Required skills

• Expert Ruby and Rails, including RSpec and Sidekiq.
• Modern JavaScript (React preferred) and CSS/HTML.
• PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design and query optimisation.
• Familiarity with deploying Rails apps on AWS, Heroku or GCP, using Docker and Kubernetes.