Full-Stack Ruby on Rails Developer

Full-Stack Ruby on Rails Web Developer (Full-Time, Remote)

EightSix Network ) — Canada's Hospitality Job Site

About the role

We're looking for a full-stack Ruby on Rails Developer who loves to ship high quality code that directly impacts our users' success. You'll own projects end-to-end: scoping solutions, writing clean, tested code, and deploying to production. This role involves both building new functionality and maintaining our existing applications with a focus on performance, security, and scalability. You'll work closely with our business team in short daily stand-ups to align on priorities—then you're off to build. This is a 100% remote position although we're ideally looking for a local candidate that can be available for monthly meet-ups.

What you'll do

• Design, build, test, and ship features across our Rails app to improve UX/UI and stability.
• Propose multiple technical approaches, weigh trade-offs, select the best path, and deliver.
• Maintain and evolve our infrastructure (Heroku + AWS), including S3 integrations and background jobs.
• Ensure application security through authentication systems, authorization controls, and data protection practices.
• Administer and extend ActiveAdmin for internal tooling and data workflows.
• Own email deliverability and templates via Mailgun.
• Implement and maintain billing, subscriptions, and webhooks with Stripe's API.
• Uphold SEO best practices (technical SEO, structured data, performance) and monitor impact.
• Set up and manage your own dev environment, staging, and production deployments via GitHub CI/CD.
• Write maintainable, well-documented code with meaningful tests.
• Experience with software testing, automated testing frameworks, and applying basic refactoring practices to ensure the delivery of reliable, maintainable code.

Our stack & tools

• Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis
• Heroku, AWS (including S3)
• ActiveAdmin, Mailgun, Stripe API
• GitHub (PRs, code review), CI/CD
• Front-end: ERB/HTML, CSS/Tailwind (or similar), JS (ES6+)

What you bring

• 3–5+ years building and scaling Rails apps in production (full-stack).
• Comfort across back-end and front-end with a good eye for design and UX polish.
• Hands-on experience with Heroku and AWS services (incl. S3).
• Proven work with ActiveAdmin (or similar admin frameworks), Mailgun, and Stripe integrations.
• Strong grounding in SEO implementation (meta/OG tags, sitemaps, schema, performance).
• Ability to work independently, prioritize, and communicate clearly with non-technical partners.
• Discipline around testing, observability, and safe deploys.
• Experience with software testing, automated testing frameworks, and applying basic refactoring practices to ensure reliable, maintainable code.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to reduce system complexity and improve the maintainability and scalability of software solutions.

Nice to have

• An interest in business and SaaS
• Background processing (Sidekiq), caching, and performance tuning.
• Analytics/experimentation chops (events, funnels, A/B tests).
• Job scraping & XML feeds: building/consuming feeds for job aggregators (e.g., XML/RSS/Atom, Google for Jobs structured data, sitemaps), and resilient scraping/ingestion pipelines.
• AI-assisted development: using AI tools to code efficiently (prompting, test scaffolding, refactoring), with attention to code quality and data/security guidelines.
• AI product features: implementing AI-powered capabilities (e.g., semantic search/matching, resume parsing/extraction, ranking/recommendations, embeddings/RAG) using providers like OpenAI / AWS Bedrock / Vertex, and instrumenting them for quality and cost control.

Why EightSix Network?

Your work ships to thousands of daily users. You'll have real ownership, a tight feedback loop with operators, and the satisfaction of seeing ideas go live quickly. For a driven, competent developer, there are few jobs that can provide the same opportunity to learn on the fly and build your skillset. We offer a competitive salary ($70,000 - $90,000), a casual, remote work environment with flexible hours and a generous vacation policy.

How to apply

Email your GitHub profile, resume and a brief note about why you want to work at EightSix Network to with the subject "Web Developer – Your Name." Include availability and salary expectations.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00-$90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off
• Work from home

Application question(s):

• Why do you want to work at EightSix?
• What city do you live in?

Work Location: Remote