Senior Ruby backend

About the Position

Join Loyal Guru as a Senior Ruby backend developer to build high-quality, innovative SaaS solutions in a fully remote environment.

About Loyal Guru

Loyal Guru is a next-generation Loyalty SaaS Platform built to help retailers create and scale highly personalized loyalty programs. Its unmatched flexibility supports a wide range of promotional discounts, point & cashback mechanics, and gamification strategies, covering every imaginable loyalty use case.

Responsibilities

• Use Ruby & Golang as the development languages
• Design, implement, and scale different solutions, paying attention to writing polished and easy-to-understand code
• Follow and apply best practices in the entire development cycle
• Participate in code reviews and pull requests, helping the team in the improvement of the product’s quality
• Make contributions to the architecture by sharing your best ideas and helping in their execution
• Work closely with other specialists (QA, Product Owners…) to make our software design, delivery, and quality unbeatable
• Help with tech documentation
• Leverage AI tools for assisted backend and infrastructure development, maintaining high quality standards, exercising technical supervision, and verifying generated results to ensure reliability and security.

Responsibilities related to Information Security

As part of Loyal Guru's commitment to Information Security and Data Protection, you will be expected to:

• Follow secure development best practices (OWASP Top 10, secure coding guidelines, input validation, proper error handling, etc.).
• Ensure that any sensitive data (customer data, credentials, secrets) is handled, stored, and transmitted securely.
• Protect your access credentials and devices in accordance with Loyal Guru’s security policies.
• Apply the least privilege principle when managing accesses, roles, and permissions within systems and code.
• Participate in periodic security training sessions provided by the company.
• Follow secure version control practices (Git), including code review, approval workflows, and avoiding the exposure of sensitive data in the codebase.
• Report any suspected security incident, vulnerability, or breach in line with Loyal Guru’s incident response procedure.
• Collaborate with the Security and DevOps teams to implement automated security controls in the CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensure dependencies and third-party libraries used in the codebase are maintained and free of known vulnerabilities.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Software Engineer in a product company preferably.
• In-depth knowledge and work experience with OO languages on the server side, preferably Ruby or Golang.
• Experience applying TDD and working with Clean Code principles.
• Solid experience writing REST APIs.
• Experience working with Google Cloud.
• Solid understanding of SQL with strong working experience with PostgreSQL.
• Working with GIT and the command line is on your daily basis and you understand the benefits of working in a Continuous Deployment environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with serverless technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD.

We Offer

Flexibility and Work-Life Balance

• Flexible working hours.
• Reduced working hours: Every Friday and throughout August.
• Day off for your birthday.
• 25 days of vacation.

Professional Growth

• Budget for training and language classes.

Well-being

• Access to Wellhub and BH Bienestar (physical and emotional care).
• 50% discount on health insurance (Sanitas).

About the Company

Loyal Guru is a next-generation Loyalty SaaS Platform built to help retailers create and scale highly personalized loyalty programs. Its unmatched flexibility supports a wide range of promotional discounts, point & cashback mechanics, and gamification strategies, covering every imaginable loyalty use case.

Founded in 2016, Loyal Guru has a team of +70 co-workers.