Principal Engineer (Ruby) - REMOTE
StrongMindUnited States
Posted December 3, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
StrongMind is an online school OS that helps educate today and tomorrow's students in a revolutionary way.
Job Description
We're looking for a Principal Engineer (Ruby) to own a core product area and lead multi-team, multi-product initiatives. You'll help design and evolve our online school OS, balancing product needs with platform stability and extensibility. Must have expertise in Ruby on Rails, full-stack skills, API and integration experience, and experience designing and evolving complex systems.
Requirements
- Expert professional software engineering experience
- Mastery-level Ruby/Rails, including deep understanding of Rails internals and ecosystem
- Strong full-stack skills, including HTML/CSS/JavaScript plus at least one modern front-end framework
- Solid API and integration experience, including designing and evolving RESTful APIs
- Strong relational database skills: schema design, indexing, query optimization, and migrations at scale
- Proven experience designing and evolving complex systems (monolith, modular monolith, or service-oriented architectures) in production
- Experience with cloud and DevOps basics, including deploying and operating apps on AWS/GCP/Azure, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker)
Benefits
- Wellness, Your Way
- Unplug for the Holidays
- Culture That Celebrates You
- Open, Honest & Human
- Vibes & Good Times
- Solid Benefits, Real Support
