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Skydropx is innovating logistics across Latin America, building software products that help businesses in the region manage their supply chains. The company operates in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Peru, and uses AI as a central part of product development—automating repetitive work while keeping humans in charge of decisions requiring judgment and accountability.
As a Senior Ruby on Rails / .NET Developer, you will lead the technical design and development of services powering Skydropx's software products. You'll work closely with other developers, architects, and product teams to make high-impact architectural decisions, define technical standards, and guide the team in adopting modern development methodologies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the design and development of new features and critical improvements, ensuring security, performance, and test coverage
- Making architectural decisions and proposing system-level technical improvements
- Designing and implementing high-performance services and components using Ruby on Rails and .NET
- Designing and evolving microservices architectures, APIs, and distributed systems
- Solving complex technical problems, including debugging distributed systems in production
- Designing event-oriented solutions and working with messaging and streaming systems
- Writing and reviewing detailed technical documentation, RFCs, and design proposals
- Defining and enforcing code quality standards, maintainability, and best practices across the team
- Mentoring Junior and Mid-level Engineers, helping them grow technically and removing blockers to autonomy
- Leading rigorous but constructive code reviews to elevate team technical level
- Autonomously shipping large-scope features, coordinating with other teams as needed
- Actively participating in technical planning and engineering roadmap definition
- Collaborating with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and Operations teams on high-impact technical solutions
The role is 100% remote with core hours Monday–Friday 8:00–17:00 CST (Mexico time), with schedule flexibility during new releases.
REQUIREMENTS:
- B2 English or higher (mandatory)
- 6+ years of software design and development experience
- Solid experience with both Ruby on Rails and .NET, including design, development, and evolution of high-availability applications and services
- Experience with .NET Framework 4.7+ and .NET Core 6 or higher
- Proven experience designing and building microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems
- Solid JavaScript experience and familiarity with modern frontend ecosystems
- Deep knowledge of software engineering best practices across the full development lifecycle: coding standards, code reviews, version control, CI/CD, testing, and operations
- Practical experience designing and deploying large-scale distributed systems and high-availability client-server architectures
- Experience with RESTful APIs, versioning, and security mechanisms (OAuth2, JWT, OpenID Connect)
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly SQL Server, MongoDB, and Redis
- Experience with messaging systems and event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent technologies
- Experience with CI/CD and tools such as Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines, or GitHub Actions
- Experience configuring and deploying .NET applications across environments: Windows (IIS, CI/CD pipelines) and Linux (Nginx, Kestrel, containers)
- Knowledge of observability: monitoring, centralized logging, metrics, and tools like Elastic Stack, Prometheus, or Grafana
- Experience with cloud computing on at least one of: Microsoft Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically, mentor other engineers, and communicate complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
Differentiators (nice-to-have):
- Advanced Ruby on Rails experience, including high-performance component design
- Cloud-native architecture experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Advanced Kafka or similar event-driven technology experience
- Docker and Kubernetes knowledge
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) experience
- Event Sourcing and data streaming experience
- Deep knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis
- Observability experience including tracing, metrics, and structured logging
- Functional language experience (Erlang, Elixir, Rust)
- Open source contributions, especially in the Ruby ecosystem
- Microsoft Azure or AWS certifications
- Advanced Portuguese
- Advanced or fluent English and/or Spanish for international partner communication
