Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer — Zipline

Location: Remote (Canada + United Kingdom) | Type: Full-time | Salary: $143,555 – $175,455 CAD / £79,424 to £97,074

About Zipline

Zipline is a well-funded, rapidly growing SaaS company transforming how frontline teams work. We empower the world's leading brands across retail, healthcare, logistics, and beyond to connect, align, and inspire their employees from headquarters to the front lines.

Our customers consistently give us best-in-class NPS and CSAT scores, and we're proud to be a fully remote company with employees across the U.S., Canada, and around the globe.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer to join our team as our product and infrastructure continue to scale with rapid customer growth. This is a great opportunity for someone excited about shaping robust systems and contributing to AI-powered initiatives such as automatic content creation.

What You'll Do

Define and improve useful APIs for our customers
Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable features for our web-based applications
Maintain and enhance existing features, adapting them for an evolving market
Evangelize coding, testing, and performance best practices with the team
Collaborate with product, design, and customer success teams on features customers will love

What We're Looking For

Significant production experience with large-scale Ruby on Rails applications
Great written and verbal communication skills
Outcome-oriented; you prefer taking projects from inception to completion
Strong understanding of systems architecture, database design, and the Ruby language
Proactive communicator who manages their time well as a remote employee
Pride in clean, scalable code that keeps large teams productive
Interest in or experience with AI/ML technologies, especially in content generation or data structuring

Tech Stack

Backend: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch

Frontend: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Webpack

Infrastructure: AWS, Heroku, Ansible, Digital Ocean

Tools: GitHub, Slack, Google Drive, JIRA, Claude Code

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: $143,555 – $175,455 CAD annually, based on experience

Stock options in a fast-growing, venture-backed company
Flexible time-off policy
Monthly coffee shop stipend
Paid one-month sabbatical after 5 years
World-class medical, dental, and vision coverage
Annual company offsites (past locations: New York, Costa Rica, Whistler, Palm Springs, San Diego, Mexico City)
Quarterly paid volunteer day
Unlimited Udemy Business access for learning

Our Culture

We're remote-first but anything but disconnected. Zipliners work from all over and we make space to connect through weekly all-company socials and in-person yearly retreats. We value diversity of all kinds and are committed to building an inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Want to learn more? We can't wait to meet you.