Tech Lead, Ruby on Rails

Finalsite • Glastonbury, CT

4d • Remote

About The Position

Finalsite is the first community relationship management platform for K-12 schools, transforming how schools attract students, engage families, build community — and thrive. More than 7,000 schools and districts worldwide trust Finalsite’s integrated platform for their websites, communications, mobile apps, enrollment, and marketing services. Finalsite is headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, USA with employees who work remotely in nearly every state in the U.S. as well as Europe, South America, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.finalsite.com . The Opportunity At Finalsite, we empower educators to reach and engage their communities through transformative digital experiences. As our Tech Lead , you won't just be writing code; you will be the architectural backbone of a platform that processes over $1.6B in gross payment volume. By bridging the gap between high-level strategy and hands-on execution, you ensure that schools worldwide can depend on a secure, high-performance financial ecosystem. The Mission The mission of the Tech Lead is to drive the technical excellence, operational stability, and architectural integrity of our Ruby on Rails and React-based payment systems. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of our applications, from the efficiency of our CI/CD pipelines to the resilience of our AWS infrastructure. Your goal is to serve as a high-impact individual contributor while elevating the entire team through mentorship and the implementation of engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Ruby on Rails Mastery: Deep expertise in building, scaling, and maintaining complex Rails applications.
• Full-Stack Fluency: Strong proficiency in React for front-end development and a solid understanding of how it interfaces with Rails APIs.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Proven experience managing AWS environments using "Infrastructure as Code" (Terraform).
• Data Persistence: Expertise in both relational (MySQL) and non-relational (MongoDB) database design, optimization, and scaling.
• Fintech Knowledge: Practical experience with payment gateways (specifically Stripe) and handling large-scale financial data.
• Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, perform rigorous code reviews, and lead technical decision-making without a "command and control" approach.

Nice To Haves

• Experience migrating legacy monolithic architectures to modular or microservices-based structures.
• Background in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices, specifically around SLO/SLI definition.
• Active participation in the Open Source community or a history of technical blogging/speaking.

Responsibilities

• Architect & Build: Spend approximately 60% of your time as a "player-coach," delivering high-quality Ruby on Rails and React code while overseeing overall system design.
• DevOps & SRE Ownership: Lead the team’s "you build it, you run it" philosophy by managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform and participating in a rotating on-call schedule.
• SME for Payments: Serve as the primary Subject Matter Expert for our Stripe integration, ensuring seamless processing for $1.6B+ in transactions.
• CI/CD Leadership: Own and optimize the automated deployment pipeline (Jenkins/Git), ensuring code moves from development to production safely and frequently.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Security Leads to translate business requirements into robust technical specifications.
• Standard Setting: Define and enforce engineering standards for testing, documentation, and performance monitoring across the stack.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed