Backend Engineer – Ruby on Rails + Applied AI Integrations

Direct hire, permanent

Austin, TX or Remote (US)

$150,000 – $180,000 base salary + equity

About The Client:

An early-stage, well-funded enterprise software company building a platform that connects and automates back-office systems for finance, HR, and operations teams. The founding engineering team is small and hands-on, with the AI product direction still being actively shaped.

Role Overview:

This platform combines configurable integration pipelines with applied AI to eliminate manual data work across a company's back-office systems. You'll join the founding engineering team to help scale the integration layer, support complex customer implementations, and shape how AI gets applied across the product.

Responsibilities:

- Support integration requirements across major ERP, HRIS, and payroll platforms

- Contribute to architecture and roadmap discussions shaping the company's core AI product

- Write production-ready code built to handle enterprise-scale workloads

- Own features end-to-end: design, build, test, and deploy

Required Skills and Experience

- 5+ years of software engineering experience primarily with Ruby on Rails

- Comfortable working through ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment

- Strong communicator, comfortable working directly with customers

- Experience building integrations across multiple API types, including REST, SOAP, JSON-RPC, and flat-file formats

Nice to Haves:

- Familiarity with building agentic AI systems

- Experience with enterprise SaaS or B2B integrations and HR/Payroll systems

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