Senior Full Stack Engineer – Ruby on Rails, React.js & Python

Overview

Build and maintain high-performance web applications for the Cisco Meraki Dashboard, which manages millions of network devices globally from the cloud, working across backend, frontend and database layers.

What you'll do

• Partner across firmware, backend, SRE and product teams to design systems managing millions of global network devices.
• Develop high-performance backend services using Ruby on Rails, Python and TypeScript, alongside adaptable and intuitive React.js frontends.
• Build efficient PostgreSQL models and fine-tune queries for low-latency, high-throughput operations.
• Author automated test suites, participate in architecture reviews, and uphold high coding standards.
• Work with UX and Product to convert complex network data into intuitive, accessible user workflows.
• Take part in inclusive teamwork, knowledge sharing and constructive peer code reviews.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of professional experience writing clean, maintainable, test-driven production code for medium to large-scale distributed web applications.
• Proven hands-on experience across the stack, using Ruby on Rails on the backend with ReactJS and JavaScript / TypeScript on the frontend.
• Demonstrated expertise in database schema build, indexing and SQL query optimization using PostgreSQL or relational databases.
• Consistent record of owning features from initial conception and architectural build through implementation, testing and production deployment.
• A strong curiosity for understanding user workflows and turning customer needs into elegant technical solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical tradeoffs clearly across multi-functional engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Experience architecting and operating cloud-based infrastructure and large-scale microservices.
• Background or strong curiosity about enterprise networking, network security or device management.
• Experience with containerized environments and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with modern observability tools, distributed tracing and CI/CD automation pipelines.