Senior Full Stack Ruby on Rails Software Engineer at Opendate
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Jul 25, 2026
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Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and owning features for a Ruby on Rails platform serving independent music venues — covering ticketing, settlements, and operational tooling. The work spans full-stack development (Rails backend, React/Bootstrap frontend), API design, event-driven architecture, and cloud infrastructure, with an expectation of end-to-end project ownership from design through production deployment. Best suited to an experienced full-stack engineer comfortable in a fast-moving, remote startup setting.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,950–12,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is 100% remote but lists Indianapolis and Chicago offices as optional collaboration hubs; CBSA is set to Indianapolis (the company's primary listed location).
No compensation range is stated anywhere in the posting.
Jest is the only specific testing framework named (in a parenthetical example under the Requirements section); it is treated as a hard gate since it appears within the required qualifications block, though the 'e.g.' qualifier suggests other frameworks may be acceptable — no alternatives are named.
AI coding tools (Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Claude, etc.) are listed as a requirement but name no single canonical technology; they are omitted from the skills list as a category rather than a specific tool.
Event-driven architecture concepts (message queues, event streaming, real-time pipelines) and microservices/CQRS patterns are required but name no specific technology platform, so they are omitted per the generic-concept rule.
React-Redux, Webpack, Redis, BigQuery, AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform, SendGrid, Twilio, and Flutter appear only in the 'Our Engineering Tech Stack' narrative section — not in the Requirements block — and are therefore marked as preferred.
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