Ruby on Rails Developer

Extend an in-house Rails CMS broaden rich-text editing coverage, introduce reusable content snippets, and move hard-coded page regions into editable configuration.

Help design and build a component-based page builder, including the underlying content model and migration of existing authored content.

Work directly with editorial and marketing stakeholders to understand how authoring actually happens before designing for it.

Build and harden integrations with third-party event-management, ticketing, and CRM platforms REST APIs, webhooks, and scheduled syncs.

Replace brittle or manual reconciliation processes with resilient, idempotent integrations that include retry and backoff, dead-letter handling, and automated reconciliation.

Design and operate Sidekiq workflows with attention to concurrency, ordering, and failure modes.

Instrument integrations so failures surface early and are diagnosable without guesswork.

Design and build a versioned API layer on the existing Rails stack to support a companion mobile app and downstream data consumers.

Handle authentication, authorization, rate limiting, pagination, and consumer-facing documentation from the outset.

Collaborate with mobile engineers on contract design and on serving native-specific view variants where the app renders server HTML.

Profile and optimize application and database performance against sharp, predictable seasonal traffic peaks.

Implement caching strategies that hold up when pages contain personalized content — fragment and Russian-doll caching, and edge-cacheable shells with dynamically loaded personal regions.

Support the introduction of a CDN and automated scaling in front of the existing PaaS hosting.

Contribute to load testing ahead of known peak events.

Help prioritize, execute, and validate security remediation across an existing codebase, and build securely in all new work.

Write meaningful automated tests unit, request, and system-level and raise coverage in the areas you touch.

Participate in code review as both author and reviewer, and contribute to technical acceptance criteria on tickets you pick up.

Deployment on a managed PaaS: Heroku or comparable plus AWS S3 for asset storage.

Hotwire Native (formerly Turbo Native) on iOS or Android: path configuration, bridge components, or native screen integration. This is a significant differentiator for this engagement.

CMS and content modelling in Rails Action Text or Trix, ViewComponent or Phlex, block-based or component-based page builders.

Search infrastructure PostgreSQL full-text search at scale, or Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Typesense, or Algolia, including faceted filtering and relevance tuning.

High-traffic or event-driven traffic patterns ticket on-sales, launches, or seasonal spikes and load testing ahead of them.

CDN and edge caching alongside personalized content Fastly, Cloudflare, or similar.

Security remediation experience Brakeman, bundler-audit, dependency triage, and familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 in a Rails context.

Rails and Ruby version upgrade work , including dependency and gem migration in a large application.

Analytics and marketing instrumentation GA4, Google Tag Manager, conversion and funnel event tracking, consent handling.

Domain exposure in media, entertainment, live events, ticketing, or membership and subscription products.

Work Life Balance with BIMM days: Spend your birthday any way you’d like, as long as it’s not at the office. Extra day off to enjoy every summer holiday and a week-long end-of-year break. Boo-yah!

Benefits: We offer a comprehensive health & dental benefits plan with an Employee Assistance Program. BIMMers are also given extra $$$ to put towards wellness or health-related needs. Did we mention our RRSP with matching? A lil BIMM bonus to build your bank.

Culture: Our squad is fun, friendly and entirely egoless. Our social committee plans BIMM bashes,Tasty Thursdays and quarterly outings like candle making workshops, board game nights, Jays games and cooking classes. Our summer and holiday parties are quite memorable as well! Having Fun Everyday is one of our core values.

We believe in working & meeting with purpose. We observe a hybrid working model in our beautiful dog-friendly office located in the Distillery District, stuffed with snacks.

Belonging: Our dedicated DEI committee provides thought-provoking insights which are reflected in our work; They also organize engaging awareness activities and events to showcase BIMMER’s professional talents and personalities. What talents might you bring? :)

Growth: BIMM is part of kyu collective which gives our employees access to the network’s resources, training, offices, and more. We also prioritize your personal and professional development with opportunities like on-site Lunch n’ Learns, conferences and online courses. Love 2 Learn

BIMM is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and accessible. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all applicants for employment without discrimination. Please let us know if accommodation for the recruitment/interview process is required and we will work with you to make sure your needs are met.

While we are exploring ways to best utilize AI in our hiring processes, BIMM currently does not use AI-enabled tools in our hiring process. All candidates are screened by humans, and approved by humans.

The range of annual base salary for full-time employees for this position is below. Please note that base pay offered may vary depending on factors including your city of residence, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.