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You’ll work primarily with Ruby on Rails and Go, building API-first, multi-tenant architectures that serve thousands of users reliably.\nYou’ll be part of a small, fast-moving team - collaborating closely with product, frontend, and infra engineers - to ship features, improve performance, and make technical decisions that shape the platform’s future. 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