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Ruby on Rails Developer - Senior

SOFTSWISS · Cyprus, Georgia, Poland, Serbia · back to the listing

HR standards

57/100

needs work

Title ↔ description

93/100

strong

Reads as

Backend Engineer

100% confident

What this role officially is

software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Also known as: application developer, application programmer, solutions developer, programmer, software specialist, application software developer

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What the listing never says

  • 28 bullet points. Long requirement lists deter qualified candidates, who read them as hard gates. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

Overview:

We are looking for a Senior Ruby Developer to join a highly experienced engineering team working on complex, data-intensive systems. You will help design and build reliable, fault-tolerant solutions, take ownership of their performance in production, and solve challenging data and scalability problems.

Purpose of the role:

Design and improve scalable Ruby services for high-load, data-intensive systems. You will own solutions from implementation to production, troubleshoot complex issues, optimize application and database performance, and contribute to technical decisions and engineering practices.

Key responsibilities:

• Work in a fully agile environment with senior engineers and product managers

• Participate in designing fault-tolerant, highly available and optimized solutions

• Monitor and optimize your services in production for excellence

• Research and develop new technologies and tools

• Collaborate with other teams - product, infrastructure and business

Required Experience:

• Minimum 5-year experience in software development

• Solid Ruby programming skills

• Hands-on experience with data-intensive applications development & performance tuning

• Experience in developing complex solutions from scratch

• Strong SQL skills and solid understanding of relational databases, with the ability and curiosity to investigate complex data issues, analyze large datasets, and perform root-cause analysis

• Deep data structures, OOP, and algorithms knowledge

• Good communication skills

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with ClickHouse

• Familiarity with AI-powered developer tools and practical experience integrating them into daily development workflows

• Experience with Kafka

• Ability to implement space and time-efficient algorithms and understand which one is preferable and when

• Readiness to learn other programming languages (e.g. Golang, Scala)

• Familiarity with SRE practices

• Familiarity with cloud native technologies (e.g. k8s, Helm, Prometheus)

Our Benefits:

• Private health insurance

• Sports benefits

• Comprehensive Mental Health Program

• Free English lessons (online)

• Local language courses

• Paid time off

• Maternity leave support

• Referral program rewards

• Upskilling, internal workshops, and participation in professional conferences and corporate events

Originally posted on Himalayas

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 12 points (from 69 before penalties). Reviewed 24 Sep 2026.