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Senior Backend Engineer, Voyager Team
AWS
PostgreSQL
Ruby On Rails
Edtech.com's Summary
Bridge is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Voyager Team as the guardian of the mission-critical Ruby on Rails monolith behind its learning and career-development platform. This remote (Hungary) role owns the core Ruby ecosystem, fixing critical issues in a large undocumented codebase while ensuring new Kotlin and Ruby features integrate seamlessly. The position offers a salary package of 1.7-2.1M HUF gross/month depending on seniority, plus a performance bonus.
Highlights
- Serves as the guardian of Bridge's core Ruby on Rails monolith, owning its complexity and critical fixes
- Develops the Ruby on Rails web application for roughly 60% of the role and Kotlin SpringBoot REST APIs for 40%
- Ensures new Kotlin and Ruby features integrate seamlessly into the existing ecosystem
- Works with PostgreSQL and AWS services including Aurora RDS, Pulsar, Neptune, and OpenSearch
- Supports ETL data pipelines built with Debezium and CI/CD via GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Terraform
- Occasionally contributes to the frontend using React and TypeScript
- Requires a 'no fear' attitude built from navigating complex production crises without documentation
- Draws on high abstract and conceptual thinking to navigate a large undocumented monolith
- Must currently reside in Hungary with the legal right to work there; no visa sponsorship offered
- Requires English and Hungarian language proficiency at B1 level or higher
Senior Backend Engineer, Voyager Team Full Description
Position Summary
Bridge is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Voyager Team as the guardian of the mission-critical Ruby on Rails monolith that powers its learning and career-development platform. While Bridge's strategic future is being built in Kotlin and Spring Boot, the Voyager Team owns the core Ruby ecosystem, serving as the expert who understands its complexity, fixes critical issues, and ensures new features integrate seamlessly.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the guardian of Bridge's core Ruby on Rails monolith, fixing critical issues and understanding its full complexity
- Develop the Complex Ruby on Rails web application, roughly 60% of the role, and Java/Kotlin SpringBoot REST APIs, roughly 40%
- Ensure new features written in Kotlin or Ruby integrate seamlessly into the existing ecosystem
- Work with PostgreSQL databases and cloud services including AWS Aurora RDS, Apache Pulsar, and AWS OpenSearch
- Support ETL data pipelines built with Debezium and graph databases on AWS Neptune
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Terraform, with monitoring via DataDog
- Occasionally work in the frontend using React and TypeScript
Minimum Qualifications
A 'no fear' attitude built from navigating complex production crises without documentation or guidance, high abstract and conceptual thinking for large undocumented monoliths, and a broad, polyglot background across multiple technology stacks.
Other Requirements
Applicants must currently reside in Hungary with the legal right to work there; the role is fully remote but cannot consider candidates outside Hungary, and no visa sponsorship or relocation assistance is offered. English (B1+) and Hungarian (B1+) are both required.
Compensation
Salary package of 1.7-2.1M HUF gross/month depending on seniority, plus a performance-based bonus and benefits including a comprehensive Medicover healthcare package and a SZÉP card.
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