Ruby on Rails Developer

About The Role We're looking for a Ruby on Rails Developer to join a team working on legacy system maintenance and modernisation. You'll be hands-on with existing Rails codebases, improving performance, refactoring legacy code, and building out new features as the system evolves. This is a Philippines-based remote role, full-time permanent.

What You'll Do Maintain and improve existing Ruby on Rails applications.

Refactor legacy code to improve readability, performance, and test coverage.

Build new features and API endpoints as part of ongoing modernisation efforts.

Write clean, well-tested code with RSpec or Minitest.

Work with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL), write and optimise queries, and manage schema migrations.

Troubleshoot production issues, debug performance bottlenecks, and support deployment pipelines.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including front-end developers, QA, and product owners.

What We're Looking For Minimum 3 years of hands-on Ruby on Rails development experience.

Strong understanding of the Rails framework, MVC architecture, ActiveRecord, and RESTful API design.

Experience working with legacy codebases, including refactoring, upgrading Rails versions, and improving test coverage on existing code.

Solid SQL skills and experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL.

Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tools (Capistrano, Docker, or similar).

Comfortable with background job processing (Sidekiq, Resque, or Delayed Job).

Good communication skills and ability to work independently in a remote setup. Nice to Have Experience with front-end technologies (JavaScript, React, Vue, or Stimulus/Hotwire).

Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Heroku).

Experience with Redis, Elasticsearch, or message queues.

Familiarity with Rails upgrade paths (e.g. Rails 4/5 to Rails 7+). Performance tuning and application monitoring (New Relic, Datadog, or similar).