Ruby on Rails Engineer and Developer
Match Score — Senior Software Engineer (R...
The candidate demonstrates a strong match with over 7 years of recent Ruby on Rails experience from 2017 to 2024, including architecting platforms, implementing AWS integrations, and building billing applications at previous employers, exceeding the 5+ years requirement. Key strengths include hands-on PostgreSQL usage listed in skills and experience, vast Ruby knowledge, senior-level backend infrastructure work aligning with API and server-side responsibilities, and a relevant engineering degree plus Google Cloud certification. Achievements show impact through streamlined architectures, new platform designs, and feature implementations in production. Concerns include no explicit evidence of Redis or Memcached caching in recent roles despite the job requirement, limited mention of open-source contributions, and location in Serbia for a Berlin-based remote role which may pose minor timezone or authorization risks. Overall, recency and depth in core Rails/Ruby stack drive a high score, with caching as the primary ramp-up area.
Summary
Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer with 12+ years of experience leading high-performing teams and delivering scalable distributed applications on AWS infrastructure. Proven expertise in Ruby, Ruby on Rails (including APIs, versions 4/6/7), GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, React.js, JavaScript, Apache Kafka, Git, Google Cloud, Docker, Python, Angular, and Elixir.
Key experience:
- Engineering Manager at a freelance talent platform (2023-2024): Led a team of 7 engineers supporting financial domain; implemented billing application for new products; onboarded 3 developers.
- Senior Software Engineer at the same platform (2020-2023): Delivered critical billing features; handled support requests; maintained internal Elixir tool.
- Product Chief Architect (Ruby on Rails) at a PaaS provider (2017-2020): Documented and optimized architecture for faster onboarding; designed next-generation container platform with Ruby, Docker, Python, Angular; built AWS load balancing, auto-scaling, and RDS integrations.
Education: Specialist's Degree in Engineering from a state technical university (2007-2012).
Certifications: Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer (2021-2023).
Available full-time; prefers Ruby on Rails environments. Notable achievement: Implementing key billing features as core team contributor.
Work Experience
Engineering Manager
T.L. · 2023 - 2024
- Managed a team of seven engineers supporting Toptal's financial domain. Implemented a billing app that serves new products of the company. Onboarded three additional developers during the year.
Senior Software Engineer
T.L. · 2020 - 2023
- Implemented several important features related to the billing domain. Handled countless assistance requests in the billing domain. Supported an internal tool written in Elixir after the previous owner left.
Product Chief Architect, Ruby on Rails
E.Y. · 2017 - 2020
- Documented and streamlined EngineYard architecture, improving onboarding processes and team efficiency. Designed and implemented the next-generation EngineYard container platform using Ruby, Docker, Python, and Angular. Created and implemented AWS load balancing and auto-scaling integrations using Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Developed and implemented the Amazon RDS integration.
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