Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

About Recurly:

Recurly, Inc., a SaaS company, provides a versatile subscription management platform to manage the entire subscription lifecycle for market-leading brands worldwide. Subscription businesses such as Sling TV, FabFitFun, Cinemark and  depend on Recurly to harness the power of the subscription model and drive recurring revenue growth. Since its launch in 2009, Recurly has deployed subscription billing for thousands of companies across 55 countries. Our platform empowers billions of credit card transactions and has enabled customers to recover nearly $1.3 billion in revenue in 2024.

Recurly is backed by Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused private equity firm with over $10 billion in capital commitments. The partnership offers Recurly access to significant capital and resources to make continued investments in technology and platform innovation and expand our go-to-market initiatives.

The Platform Engineering organization is looking for an individual to join our Software Infrastructure development team in Medellin, Colombia. This team is responsible for building the core application infrastructure that enables Recurly to scale. As a member of this team, you will be part of defining the next generation of platform services leveraging the latest cloud technologies. Your skills and ability to learn quickly will be stretched as you participate in a wide range of projects building core services leveraged by Recurly's entire engineering ecosystem. Software Infrastructure is a highly regarded team and you'd be collaborating with some of the brightest and most dedicated engineers at Recurly. 

This role requires a depth of professional experience working in languages and frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Golang, the ability to learn rapidly, a desire to lead, design, and implement features in Rails applications, strength in turning complex business requirements into elegant and maintainable code, experience creating stable and reliable integrations between separate business systems, and an enthusiasm for making a measurable impact on the business while consistently seeking to drive business value through technological solutions.

Requirements

• Participate in requirements and solution design sessions, working closely with stakeholders from across the entire organization.
• Define technical impacts, recommend best-practice and/or alternate approaches and provide timeline estimates.
• Test, analyze, and address issues with products and features.
• Collaborate on and inform cross-functional teams of new feature technical design, technical requirements, limitations, and implementation.
• Follow an iterative software development methodology and contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle and support.
• Articulate development status to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Continually refine business acumen and establish domain/industry vertical expertise.

Requirements:

• Experienced in Ruby, Ruby on Rails (GoLang, Rust a bonus)
• Experience in building systems to operate at scale
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Ability to work in multiple programming languages and systems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with cloud deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Prior experience working with Docker and Kubernetes

Preferences:

• Bachelor's Degree or relevant experience 
• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails
• Devops experience

Benefits

As a full-time employee, we offer competitive benefits programs and perks designed to fit your needs and the needs of your family.

Recurly is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law. Recurly is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know