Software Development Engineer II

We are looking for a sharp and experienced Backend Software Engineer with expertise in Ruby/Rails, Java and microservice architecture to join our dynamic Private Client Backend Team which powers the backend data systems that drive everything visible on our luxury App Editorialist, ensuring high-quality, accurate, and performant data delivery for a seamless user experience. As an SDE-2, you will own systems, make informed architectural choices, and collaborate with peers to deliver high-impact features efficiently. You will design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in Ruby and Java, develop RESTful APIs and integrations, work with PostgreSQL, and contribute to backend workers and asynchronous processing pipelines. The role involves implementing caching, load balancing, and performance optimizations, writing unit tests, setting up monitoring and alerting, and participating in code reviews. The position includes deployments and infrastructure on AWS environments with Docker containers and requires familiarity with modern AI-powered developer tools. The environment is fast-paced, tech-savvy startup where your code has a real-world impact with end to end ownership of features and systems. You will have the opportunity to work with state of the art tech, modern, performance-focused JavaScript stack. Exposure to international teams across the US, Europe, and Asia will be a part of the experience.