Staff Full Stack Engineer, Andela
Connecting global talent to meaningful opportunities
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Connecting global talent to meaningful opportunities
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect global technologists with F500 opportunities, enabling companies to build diverse, high performing teams for the age of AI.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for a "player-coach" who thrives on solving complex problems with elegant code and long-term architectural vision
- As an Andelan, you’ll serve as a role model for the rest of the company. Think about the feedback your peers typically give you – if it usually sounds like the below, we want to hear from you
- Low ego, low drama, servant leader: You share credit, take blame. You like being wrong because it means someone else had an even better idea
- One team mentality: You break silos across teams. You put the company and mission first above your team alone
- Great listener, hungry for feedback: You’re always seeking to improve – our product, our business, yourself. You solicit diverse opinions and deeply listen
- Owner, not renter: You see a problem, you fix it or find someone who will. The buck stops with you
- Player-coach: You fly high (create strategy) AND low (know the details that matter). You roll up your sleeves and get scrappy. You do this proactively collaborating with your team while actively engaging in important details
- Business problem solver: You’re not just a functional expert; you consistently get praise for approaching your function through the lens of solving business problems
- Experience: 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years focused on Ruby on Rails
- Backend Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of Ruby, Rails conventions, and the broader Ruby ecosystem (RSpec, Sidekiq, etc.)
- Frontend Proficiency: Strong experience with modern JavaScript (React preferred) and CSS/HTML
- Data Modeling: Deep understanding of PostgreSQL or MySQL, including schema design and complex query optimization
- DevOps & Infrastructure: Familiarity with deploying and managing Rails apps on AWS, Heroku, or GCP, using Docker and Kubernetes
- Communication: Exceptional English skills; ability to influence technical decisions and communicate clearly with distributed teams
- Adaptability: A proven track record of thriving in a fast-paced, remote-first environment
What the job involves
- As a Staff Full-Stack Engineer on our Internal Product team, you aren't just maintaining a platform; you are architecting the engine that powers the global remote economy
- You will own the technical evolution of our proprietary Ruby on Rails ecosystem—solving deep-stack challenges in matching logic, global payments, and automated vetting
- System Architecture: Lead the architectural evolution of Ruby on Rails applications, ensuring they remain performant, maintainable, and secure as they scale
- Full-Stack Execution: Deliver high-quality code across the stack, utilizing Ruby on Rails on the backend and modern frontend frameworks (typically React) on the frontend
- Performance Optimization: Identify and resolve bottlenecks in the Rails stack (e.g., N+1 queries, indexing, caching strategies) and optimize overall system latency
- Technical Leadership: Act as a force multiplier by conducting rigorous code reviews, defining CI/CD standards, and mentoring other engineers in the Andela community
- Strategic Partnership: Work closely with stakeholders to translate product vision into technical roadmaps, navigating trade-offs between speed and technical debt
Our take
Andela is connecting businesses with skilled software engineering from around the world. Originally founded in Nigeria, it has grown into a global platform with talent across more than 135 countries. Over time, Andela has moved beyond simply hiring to building a larger system that helps companies find, assess, and manage technical talent, positioning itself as an "AI-native" talent platform rather than just a recruitment marketplace.
In the AI era, Andela's role is becoming more important as companies struggle to keep up with how fast the technology is evolving. Many organizations know they want to build AI-powered product, but lack the in-house skills to do so. Andela is trying to solve this by both supplying ready-to-hire engineers and training existing teams through its AI Academy. By focusing on practical skills like building AI systems, deploying them in real environments, and aligning them with business goals, it's helping close the gap between AI ambition and real-world execution.
Recently, Andela has doubled down on this strategy. Its AI Academy aims to train thousands of engineers in areas like LLMs and production AI systems, while its acquisition of Woven strengthens how it tests and verifies real-world engineering ability. Together, with earlier investments in its Talent Cloud platform, these moves show Andela shifting toward a full end-to-end system. Now the company is ready to become a key infrastructure layer for AI adoption, helping businesses not just find talent, but continuously build and maintain the skills needed to keep up.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $386.8m
Company HQ
Diamond District, New York, NY
Leadership
Carrol Chang
(CEO)Prior to joining Andela in 2024, Carrol spent nearly 8 years at Uber. She joined in 2016 as a General Manager, before becoming the Head of Driver Operations in US & Canada in 2019, and Global Head of Driver & Courier Operation in 2021. She also spent 3 years at McKinsey & Company as an Associate.
Geoff MacNeil
(CRO)Prior to joining Andela in 2025, Geoff spent nearly 4 years at Crowdbotics as a VP of Revenue. Before that, he spent over 3 years at Gigster, joining as a VP of Enterprise Sales & Customer Success before moving into the role of SVP of Sales, Partnerships, Network & Team Intelligence.
Barun Singh
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Barun joined Andela in 2025 as the Head of Engineering, within 4 months, he was promoted to Chief Product & Technology Officer. Previously, he was the Founder of CO2 where he served as the Chief Product & Technology Officer.
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