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Ruby Backend Software Engineer

Zelis
Morristown, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Oct 2025
💰 $127,000/yr($95,000/yr$127,000/yr)

About the role

At Zelis, we Get Stuff Done. So, let’s get to it! 

  

A Little About Us 

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.

  

A Little About You 

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.

Position Overview

Our ideal candidate is a Ruby Backend Software Engineer (2-3 years) with experience building scalable production applications, working with large data sets, and owning the entire development lifecycle. You will need to be a team player while collaborating closely with our product managers to enhance our mature, complex product. You will get to work with Angular, Ruby, AWS, among other technologies.

We offer comprehensive onboarding, career guidance, a competitive salary, a remote-friendly workspace, and continuing education support. We follow an Agile methodology in small software teams. This is an amazing opportunity for a hands-on, motivated Software Engineer who can define and implement new and challenging technical projects.

What You’ll Do:

  • Write easily maintainable, extendable, and understandable code that adheres to software engineering design principles.

  • Creating and maintaining our APIs.

  • Developing new full-stack features to improve our products.

  • Supporting and enhancing current systems.

  • Debugging and optimizing code.

  • Supporting and development of comprehensive documentation and tests.

  • Building tooling to improve our operational efficiency.

  • Developing the frontend experience using Angular.

  • Creating and maintaining our Backend architecture.

  • Planning and maintaining a product long term.

  • Performing code reviews.

  • Collaborating with product to deliver on the roadmap.

What You’ll Bring to Zelis:

  • 2-3 years of backend development experience in Ruby.

  • Solid understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.

  • Understanding on how to build distributed high-volume services in Ruby.

  • Knowledge of development best practices (agile methodologies, code reviews, backend testing frameworks).

  • Experience in backend architecture.

  • Experience with or understanding of front-end development, particularly Angular, to effectively collaborate on full-stack features

  • Experience working with AWS.

  • Knowledge of API architecture development and optimization.

  • Solid understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL.

  • Understanding of Apache Solr or willingness to learn.

  • Exposure to queueing systems such as RabbitMQ or willingness to learn.

  • Experience contributing to products in a production environment (product lifecycle, sticking to release schedules, etc.).

  • Knowledge of development best practices (agile methodologies, code reviews, JavaScript testing frameworks).

Our Stack

  • Languages (JavaScript, Typescript, Ruby)

  • Frameworks (Angular, Ruby on Rails)

  • Infrastructure (RDS, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Redis, Docker, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Apache Solr)

Please note at this time we are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Location and Workplace Flexibility

We have offices in Atlanta GA, Boston MA, Morristown NJ, Plano TX, St. Louis MO, St. Petersburg FL, and Hyderabad, India. We foster a hybrid and remote friendly culture, and all our employee's work locations are based on the needs of the position and determined by the Leadership t

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