Senior Ruby Developer
Remote - US
Remote - Canada
Remote - UK
Remote - EU
Remote - Europe
Remote - North America
Remote - South America
Full Time
Senior
Published on August 13, 2025
Perry Street Software is Jack’d and SCRUFF. We are two of the world’s largest gay, bi, trans and queer social dating apps on iOS and Android. Our brands reach more than 30 million members worldwide so members can connect, meet and express themselves on a platform that prioritizes privacy, security, and community. Our company puts user privacy first, and doesn't use third-party ad networks or tracking software.
A 100% remote, 100% global team
As a Senior Ruby Developer, you will help build our Ruby API powering our family of LGBTQ+ mobile dating apps. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about architecture and monads! Ok just kidding about the last part -- but you can see more about our approach to API development in our Medium blog series here. The position is 40 hours per week and ongoing/full-time.
What you'll do:
- Maintain a complex backend which processes more than 350 million web server requests per day
- Build a modern API application atop a functional architecture in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and/or Sinatra
- Build well factored, maintainable, and tested code using RSpec with Test & Behavior Driven Development (TDD & BDD)
- Understand and build using strong architectural patterns beyond the standard MVC of Rails
- Have a strong sense of OO programming and Architectural patterns
- Be able to work with, mentor, and guide a distributed team of developers
- Team members will be expected to align to the working and pairing hours of their team in their respective regions. Our team writes code in pairs, and engineering teams screen-share with each other a minimum of 4 hours per day.
- We are pioneers of architectural linters, and are working on a new open-source architectural linter for Ruby inspired by our experience in Kotlin. This enables us to apply architectural principles across a global, distributed team
You can see more about our architectural approach on our Engineering blog here.