Ruby on Rails Engineer (Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services)

Fearless is seeking a Ruby on Rails Engineer to support a federal identity and authentication platform. The role develops secure, accessible, cloud-native applications and APIs, supports AWS deployments and production systems, and collaborates with product, security, privacy, and federal stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack features using Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript technologies
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and service-oriented application architectures that support secure identity and authentication services
• Develop accessible, standards-compliant user interfaces while adhering to Section 508 and WCAG accessibility requirements
• Build, deploy, and support cloud-native applications within AWS environments
• Monitor and troubleshoot production applications using AWS services including CloudWatch and RDS
• Participate in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using tools such as GitHub Actions and Terraform
• Participate in on-call and deployment rotations, providing incident response support during business hours
• Collaborate closely with product, security, privacy, and federal stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable solutions
• Communicate proactively with teammates and clients, contributing to a collaborative, solutions-oriented engineering culture
• Collaborates with cross functional teams
• Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world class services
• Be reliable completing assigned objectives on time
• Alert your teammates and supervisor immediately when you think a deliverable is at risk
• Gather intelligence and listen to what your client, other people within the customer’s organization and other contractors say about your project, and report back to your Fearless teammates and supervisor (whether it’s good, bad or just informational)
• Deliver expected outcomes relative to high quality code and maintainable systems
• Offer and implement innovative solutions that include engineering best practices through new tools, frameworks and methodologies
• Serve as a trusted advisor in your area of expertise

Requirements:

• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing full-stack applications using Ruby on Rails
• Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, domain modeling, and service-oriented or modular application architecture
• Experience developing frontend applications using JavaScript and React
• Knowledge of accessibility best practices, including Section 508 and WCAG compliance
• Experience working with AWS services, including RDS (Postgres) and CloudWatch
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and GitHub Actions (or similar CI platforms)
• Ability to support production applications through on-call rotations and incident response
• Experience collaborating effectively across engineering, product, security, and client teams
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field
• Ability to obtain and maintain public trust clearance
• Analytical Thinking: The ability to observe and interpret information, break down complex problems into parts, identify patterns/relationships and draw logical conclusions to develop effective solutions
• Synthetic Thinking: The ability to combine different ideas, information, or concepts to create a new, complex understanding or solution by integrating disparate elements into a new, meaningful whole
• Adaptability: Comfort with change, flexibility in the face of shifting demands and resilience to setbacks
• Ownership & Accountability: Committed to taking responsibility for outcomes, ensuring that all commitments are met with a focus on enhancing service delivery
• Consultative Advising: Identifies and articulates client challenges, scopes projects and aligns recommendations to business goals and client expectations
• Communicating with Influence: Capable of crafting and delivering clear, persuasive messages that integrate data insights and structured narratives, tailored to the strategic needs of diverse audiences to drive effective decision-making
• Environmental Awareness: Maintains awareness of external dynamics, power structures within client environments as well as regulatory trends and contract requirements that influence service delivery
• Practical Application: You can complete tasks in required competency/skill-based areas as requested. Help from an expert may be necessary from time to time, but you can usually perform the skill independently
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization protocols including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Experience with identity proofing, document verification, fraud detection, risk-based authentication, or vendor identity verification integrations
• Familiarity with NIST Digital Identity Guidelines (SP 800-63-3), including Identity Assurance Levels (IAL), Authenticator Assurance Levels (AAL), and Federation Assurance Levels (FAL)
• Experience supporting federal digital identity, authentication, or highly regulated government systems