Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Role Overview
As a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer at OnTheGoSystems, you will take ownership of meaningful features, building and maintaining robust systems used at scale. You will work closely with product teams and other developers to solve real user problems, ensuring high code quality and reliability. This role is suited for experienced backend engineers who thrive in a mature, autonomous environment.
Perks & Benefits
OnTheGoSystems offers a fully remote, async-friendly work environment, allowing you to work from anywhere within EMEA hours. The company promotes a stable, engineering-driven culture with a focus on long-term career growth and mentorship. You can expect fair compensation, great benefits, and the opportunity to make a significant impact on a core product used by a broad customer base.
Full Job Description
Headquarters: Remote URL: http://onthegosystems.com
We re looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails developer who enjoys owning meaningful features, building reliable systems, and working in a mature, high-trust engineering environment. This is an individual contributor role for an experienced backend engineer who cares deeply about code quality, testing, and long-term impact.
Why Join OTGS?
Stable & self-funded: Founded in 2007, profitable, and independent we build for the long term.
Industry leaders: Creators of WPML, the 1 multilingual plugin for WordPress, powering over 1.5 million sites
Real product impact: You ll work on ATE, a core product at OTGS with real customers, real scale, and real technical challenges.
Fully remote, async-friendly: Work from anywhere within EMEA hours as part of a global, distributed team.
Engineering-driven culture: We value ownership, autonomy, testing, and thoughtful problem-solving.
Growth without chaotic hype: Mentorship and long-term career paths without chaos.
Fair compensation + great benefits: Designed to support your well-being both inside and outside of work.
What You ll Do
Own features from implementation to production within a well-defined product scope
Build and maintain robust Ruby on Rails systems used at scale
Work closely with product and other developers to solve real user problems
Write and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, and E2E)
Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability of existing systems
Take responsibility for the quality and long-term health of what you build
What We re Looking For Required
4+ years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails
Strong backend engineering skills and database experience
Solid experience writing and maintaining automated tests (including E2E)
Experience building and running production systems
Comfortable working autonomously and taking ownership
Strong problem-solving mindset, you look beyond tickets
Experience with Web APIs
Availability during EMEA working hours
Nice to Have
Experience with React
CI/CD experience (GitLab, Jenkins, or similar)
Background jobs, AWS, or complex integrations
Experience with Capybara
This Role Is a Great Fit If You:
Take pride in ownership and accountability
Care about testing and long-term code quality
Prefer stable, product-focused work over short-term hype
Enjoy collaborating with thoughtful, kind, and experienced people
Want to make a lasting impact on a product used by thousands of real customers? Apply now!
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/onthegosystems-senior-ruby-on-rails-developer-1
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