(1529) Senior Software Engineer Ruby on Rails

Join Nortal for your next big adventure. We are seeking a Ruby on Rails Engineer to join our team, grow with us, and teach us a few things along the way. 

Why join Nortal 

• Say Goodbye to Micromanagement: We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values. 

• Outcomes Over Hours: We believe in a work model focused on impact, providing you with the flexibility to balance your professional success with your personal well-being. 

• Vibrant Community: Join our close-knit LATAM remote team and connect through tech talks, virtual coffee breaks, and team-building activities. 
• Support from Day One: Our People Care team is here to support you throughout your journey, from wellness check-ins to professional growth. 

Our benefits ✨ 

• Competitive USD salary. 

• 100% remote work: While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM. 

• Paid off & national holidays: Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations while receiving your full salary. 

• Sick leave: Focus on your health without stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better. 

• Annual credit: Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance. 

• Team-building activities: Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community. 
• Birthday off: Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family. 

About the project 

As a Ruby on Rails Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications and backend services. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including product managers, designers, and frontend developers—to translate complex product requirements into clean, well-tested, and maintainable code that drives our core platform forward. 

What you’ll do 

• Develop new applications and services using Ruby on Rails, microservices technology, Azure PaaS offerings, and other technologies as appropriate. 

• Document architectural designs through diagrams and logical flows. 

• Build and test new designs, formulations, materials, or systems for compliance with quality and/or performance standards. 

• Interprets functional/non-functional requirements and implements reliable software solutions. 

• Test new applications and services in a variety of environments. 

• Maintains and modifies existing applications without supervision. 

• Estimates and plans out work through user stories and tasks. 

• Gauge platform performance and take corrective action to optimize system behavior. 

• Determines operational feasibility by providing analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. 

• Prepare and install solutions by determining, designing, and implementing system specifications, standards, and programming guidelines. 

• Improve operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures. 

• Participate in team exercises for collaboration. 

• Guide and mentor team development efforts towards successful project delivery. 

• Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment. 

• Protect operations by keeping information confidential. 

• Provide information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues. 

• Accomplish engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed. 

• Support and develop software engineers by providing advice, coaching, and educational opportunities. 

• Grow engineering teams by participating in interviewing, recruiting, and hiring. 

• Stay on the leading edge of development practices. 

• Passion for great technologies, especially open source. 

• Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them. 

What makes you a great fit 🎯 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 

• 5+ Years of experience working with Ruby on Rails. 

• 5+ Years of experience working with Ruby. 

• 2+ Years of experience working with AWS. 

• 2+ Years of experience working with Microservices. 

• 2+ Years of experience working with React. 

• 1+ Years of experience working with Mentoring team members. 
• Advanced English Level is required for this role, as you will work with US clients. Effective communication in English is essential to deliver the best solutions to our clients and expand your horizons.  

Global Impact, Local Culture 🌍 

For over 25 years, we’ve been shaping digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organizations. Today, we are at the forefront of an AI-driven transformation era, helping organizations turn data into real business value. By combining deep domain expertise with data and AI, we design solutions that create immediate impact while scaling for the future.   

We believe complexity doesn’t have to mean complicated, and that the best solutions are those that work in the real world, not just on paper. That’s why our clients trust us with their most ambitious, business-critical initiatives.  

Apply now and let’s shape the future of technology together! 🧑‍💻