Software Development Engineer 2

About the Role

Were looking for an SDE 2 who can take a direction and find their own path. Youll own meaningful slices of production systems across our product ecosystem internal platforms, customer-facing apps, integrations, and AI-powered products we’re actively building. This isn’t a role for someone who waits for fully specified tickets. It’s for engineers who think in trade-offs, surface risks early, and care about what their code does at 2 AM on a Saturday.

What We Absolutely Need These are non-negotiable. Without these, the role won’t work — regardless of years of experience or stack familiarity.

• • Figures things out independently. Give you a direction, you find the path. You investigate, prototype, ask sharp questions, and move.

• • Owns production impact. You understand that every code and design decision compounds into reliability, performance, and maintainability.

• • Strong debugging and problem-solving. When blocked or handed ambiguous requirements, you reproduce, isolate, hypothesize, and verify.

• • Language-flexible, but deep in at least one. Stacks are tools; fundamentals travel.

• • Thinks in trade-offs. You can articulate why one design or implementation choice is better than another given the constraints.

• • Proactively raises risks, gaps, and dependencies. You flag the missing requirement or scaling concern before it becomes a fire.

• • Builds for the long term. You care more about stability, operational excellence, and maintainability than shipping a quick feature someone else has to clean up.

• • Learns fast. New system, unfamiliar domain, foreign codebase — you ramp up quickly and start contributing meaningfully.

• General Expectations Writes clean, readable, well-tested code. Maintains high standards in code reviews and actively raises overall engineering quality.

• Communicates clearly and documents decisions so others can build on them.

• Tech Stack Our primary stack is Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL, Node.js, Java, and Python on the backend; React, JavaScript, Liquid, and Dart on the frontend; and PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ClickHouse for data.

• We use AI actively and are building AI-powered products as a core part of our roadmap.

Good to Have

• Production experience with Ruby on Rails/React/Node.js

• Exposure to building or integrating AI/LLM-based features

• Familiarity with multi-database environments (SQL + NoSQL + analytical stores.