Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at City Innovate Inc

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $160,000 - $200,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Postgres, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer shipping features for a GovTech SaaS platform based in San Francisco. Contributing to production reliability and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Ship complex, cross-cutting features across our four use cases: Procurement/CLM (85% of ARR), Grants, Budget, and Legislative Analysis.
• Own the hardest epics: versioning systems, approval workflows, search infrastructure, document generation, and permission models.
• Make architectural decisions that hold up across multiple use cases and customer configurations. Write ADRs for significant decisions.
• Deliver 31 story points per sprint at a senior quality bar: clean code, comprehensive tests, documentation where it matters.
• Set the code review standard for the team. Review PRs within 24 hours with substantive, constructive feedback.
• Own production reliability for your domains: diagnose performance issues, fix root causes, prevent regressions.
• Ensure offshore contributions meet the senior quality bar through review, pairing, and clear architectural guidance.
• Drive improvements to our automated quality gates (RuboCop, Brakeman, Codecov, Packwerk, SonarQube) and testing infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotation. Triage production alerts. Own incident resolution and post-mortem documentation.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers through code review, pairing sessions, and design discussions.
• Unblock teammates proactively. If someone is stuck, you notice before they ask.
• Partner with Product Managers to break down complex initiatives into shippable epics with clear technical plans.
• Work with Solutions Engineers to ensure features are configurable, implementation-ready, and aligned with customer workflows.
• Contribute to engineering process improvements: sprint planning, estimation accuracy, release predictability.

Requirements

• 6+ years building and maintaining production Ruby on Rails applications. Deep knowledge of Rails conventions, ActiveRecord, and the Rails ecosystem.
• Comfortable working across the full stack.
• Experience with PostgreSQL: query optimization, indexing strategy, data modeling for complex domain objects.
• Demonstrated ability to design systems that are maintainable, testable, and scalable. You have made architectural decisions you can defend.
• Track record of high code quality: 85%+ test coverage, clean PR history, substantive code review feedback.
• Experience mentoring other engineers. You have made someone else better at their job.
• Strong security fundamentals: OWASP, authentication/authorization design, secrets management, input validation.
• Effective use of AI-assisted development tools. You use Cursor/Copilot/Claude daily and know when to trust and when to verify.
• Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area and work in-office Monday through Thursday.

Benefits

• Salary: $160,000 - $200,000
• Equity: Stock options (0.1% - 0.25%, details at offer stage)
• 100% benefits coverage for employee
• 401(k) plan
• Flexible PTO
• Home office stipend
• Comprehensive wellness benefits
• Commuter stipend for hybrid roles