From the listing
About the role
Oyster is a global employment platform that lets companies hire, pay, and care for brilliant people anywhere. Distributed across 60+ countries, we are a B Corp-certified company recognized as a top WorkTech employer and a leader in global HR compliance.
In this role, you will join a team that owns Oyster’s APIs, connected architecture, and identity and access management systems. You will build and maintain Ruby on Rails APIs that help internal teams remove manual effort and improve productivity.
You will partner directly with colleagues to understand their workflows, clarify requirements, and take well-scoped projects from design through release with team support on higher-risk areas.
What you'll do
- Work with internal stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and break work into manageable increments.
- Design, implement, test, review, and release changes to production Rails APIs within established architecture practices.
- Handle authentication, authorization, and sensitive data securely.
- Troubleshoot defects and API failures, add regression coverage, and improve system maintainability.
- Evaluate delivered workflows with stakeholders to confirm adoption and productivity gains.
- Contribute to domain modeling and design discussions with Product and senior engineers.
- Document API behavior and decisions for async collaboration and support less-experienced colleagues.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on Ruby.
- Proven experience developing and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications.
- Ability to refine stakeholder requirements into well-scoped work.
- Strong code quality habits including automated tests, CI, and secure coding awareness.
- Fluency with AI-assisted development and independent verification of generated code.
- Clear communication and effective collaboration in an agile, remote team.
Nice to have
- Front-end experience with React and TypeScript.
- Exposure to internal developer-facing APIs or identity and access management.
- Exposure to Model Context Protocol services.
From the company page
Oyster benefits
◉ Remote policy · in their words
“Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster.”
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The hot takeJeff's read on Oyster
When I say I'm looking for perfect clarity from a company on their remote policy, Oyster sets the standard. They allow you to work from anywhere (including a beach), but make it clear if certain roles require specific timezones in order to align with the company. The are under no delusions that employees have lives outside of work and need to thrive there AS WELL as in front of the laptop to do well in life. Further, they give employees 40 days of PTO per year, which I actually PREFER to unlimited PTO. Oyster is a no-doubter for me.