Software Engineer (AI‑augmented, SaaS platform)

About the role

CultureMonkey is building an employee engagement platform used by HR and leadership teams worldwide. We are looking for a Software Engineer who can ship features independently while leveraging AI tooling to accelerate development.

Key responsibilities

• Own feature development end‑to‑end: scoping, schema design, implementation, testing, feature‑flag rollout, and post‑release monitoring.
• Write and maintain code across the stack, including Rails models, Grape APIs, background jobs, Elasticsearch queries, and reporting pipelines.
• Design scalable data access patterns and optimize SQL queries.
• Use AI assistants daily to boost productivity in exploration, refactoring, testing, migrations, and documentation.
• Improve existing codebases by eliminating duplication, tightening boundaries, and documenting complex flows.

Required profile

• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining production web applications.
• Strong SQL knowledge (joins, aggregates, indexing, query plans).
• Comfortable with REST API design, authentication, and authorization.
• Experience with background jobs, queues, or asynchronous processing.
• Habitual test writing and systematic debugging.
• Daily, demonstrable use of AI coding assistants in production work.

Required skills

• Ruby on Rails (plus any modern language: Python, Java, Go, Node.js, PHP)
• PostgreSQL
• Elasticsearch
• ClickHouse
• Kafka (or similar messaging system)
• REST API development
• Background job processing
• AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT)
• SSO/SAML and HRIS integrations (bonus)
• LLM API usage for internal tooling (bonus)