Senior Backend Engineer, Raylo

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails in a production environment
• A strong track record of building and shipping backend systems at pace, ideally in a high-growth startup or scale-up
• Experience leading projects with multiple stakeholders and engineers involved
• A collaborative, product-focused mindset – you care about solving real customer problems, not just technical ones
• Strong communication and the ability to bring clarity to complex or ambiguous problems
• Proactive curiosity – you ask questions, challenge assumptions, and continuously improve your craft
• A bias for action – you value delivering results over perfection
• We’re not looking for you to meet every point on this job description, Please still get in touch if you think you could add value and do your best work here at Raylo. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit

Desirable

• We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build and scale our backend systems as we continue to grow our customer base and expand the features of our product. You’ll be joining a collaborative and talented team, working cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, and commercial teams to create real impact across the business
• You’ll play a key role in designing and delivering high-quality backend features that support both customer-facing journeys and internal business systems, such as supply chain and operations. Your work will directly contribute to our ability to serve more customers, more efficiently – and will help drive growth across our core platform
• You’ll be joining a team that values autonomy, fast iteration, and tackling meaningful challenges. You’ll have the freedom to experiment, propose new ideas, and take ownership of projects from concept to deployment. This is a chance to do some of the best work of your career in a supportive, no-ego environment
• Lead the development of backend features that support our customers and internal teams
• Design scalable solutions that take the end user into account – not just the backend
• Collaborate closely with other backend, frontend, and mobile engineers, as well as cross-functional stakeholders
• Drive projects through ambiguity and bring clarity where needed, taking initiative to move things forward
• Contribute to the team’s technical direction, including design discussions, code reviews, and mentoring
• Participate in our engineering rota, helping to investigate and resolve production issues
• Deploy your own code frequently – we empower engineers to take ownership and ship often, rather than having a separate devops team
• Support a culture of learning, pairing, and curiosity to continuously raise the technical bar and succeed together

• What’s next? Once you submit your application, our Talent Team will contact you if you have been shortlisted for the role
• We set an exceptionally high bar at Raylo, and in return, we will aim to give you the best candidate experience possible
• If there's anything we can do to make your application process easier for you, because of disability, neurodiversity or any other personal reason, please let us know
• Stage 1: Talent Screening
• Stage 2: Hiring Manager Interview
• Stage 3: Task Stage: Pull Request Review + Pair-Programming Session
• Stage 4: Systems/Product Design session
• Stage 5: Values-based Interview & Co-founder Final
• As an FCA-regulated business, we conduct background checks (DBS and AML) on all successful candidates who are offered a position at Raylo during the onboarding process