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Retail Zipline

Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer- Design Systems

Posted 2 Days Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
147K-230K Annually
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
147K-230K Annually
Senior level
This role requires building and maintaining large-scale Rails applications, creating reusable UI components, and collaborating on design systems with a focus on usability and performance.
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Zipline is a well-funded and quickly growing SaaS company that works with many of the world’s top retailers across many industries. We have best-in-class NPS and CSAT scores, and our customers rave about us. Plus, we are a fully remote company with employees all over Canada, the United States and beyond!

We’re looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer with deep experience building and maintaining large-scale Rails applications including a strong eye for front-end architecture and design system implementation.
This role is a unique opportunity to bridge engineering and design, working closely with our design team to turn Figma libraries into live, robust, and reusable components.  Here’s what you’ll be doing:

  • Build, refine, and document a unified component library in Rails, implementing Figma-based designs with precision and polish
  • Work alongside designers to ensure that usability, accessibility, and fidelity are of the highest quality
  • Create reusable, scalable components and patterns that empower product teams to move faster
  • Champion best practices in component architecture, style organization, and frontend performance
  • Contribute to backend and full-stack product development where needed, especially using the Hotwire suite (Turbo, Stimulus, etc.)
  • Collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams to ensure we deliver consistent, high-quality UI/UX across our platform
  • Help define and evolve our design system’s technical architecture and long-term roadmap

What we’re looking for:

  • Deep production experience with Ruby on Rails at scale
  • Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with a focus on reusable UI components
  • Experience working directly with design teams to translate Figma files into robust, responsive components
  • Familiarity with Hotwire (Turbo, Stimulus, etc.) and how it complements modern Rails development
  • Great communication skills, especially important in a remote-first team
  • Passion for clean, maintainable code and thoughtful abstractions
  • Ability to take ownership and lead projects with autonomy

Bonus points if you have:

  • Experience with Lookbook or Phlex for building and documenting component libraries
  • Exposure to design system principles or prior work contributing to a design system
  • Interest in (or experience with) AI tooling, whether integrating LLMs or supporting AI-driven features
  • Experience creating internal developer tooling or libraries for broader engineering teams


Compensation:

At Zipline, we're committed to paying our team fairly, transparently, and in a way that supports growth. This role has a minimum annual salary within Canada of $153,600 CAD and a maximum of $230,400 CAD. This role has a minimum annual salary in the USA of $146,900 and a maximum of $220,400 USD.

The broad salary ranges reflect the growth someone will experience in the role—from developing skills to reaching expertise within their career level. We’ve found that hiring team members with the expectation of being accomplished in the role sets them up for success, which for this position on the USA band means a starting salary of $165,278 USD Within the Canadian band, $172,800 CAD. Salaries below this point typically reflect someone with potential but still building the necessary skills, while salaries above are for individuals already excelling in the role, with a deep understanding of Zipline’s impact on customers, product, and company.

At Zipline, you’ll continue to have career development conversations with your manager to ensure your compensation grows as you advance.

Our salary ranges are determined by market, factoring in our revenue and employee size, paying competitively at the 75th percentile. In higher cost of living markets, we apply 5-10% multipliers on our ranges, depending on the location, to maintain competitive compensation and reflective of the increased expenses our team members face in those areas. While we primarily hire in Canada and the USA, we are a global employer, and all hiring regions will use the same methodology to determine fair and transparent pay.

Transparency is key to building trust in our compensation process. To better understand how this range is determined, we encourage you to ask as many questions as you'd like about compensation during the interview process to ensure clarity and confidence.

What’s in it for you:

  • Remote-first culture: Join a high performing, fully remote team and work where you're comfortable
  • Stock Options: Get meaningful ownership in a fast-growing, venture-backed company shaping the future of retail.
  • Time off: We believe rest fuels great work. Our flexible time-off policy gives you the freedom to take the breaks you need, when you need them—whether it's a long weekend or a well-deserved vacation. We’ll also give you a monthly coffee-shop stipend to switch up your workspace and get inspired outside the office. And when you’ve been with us for five years? You’ll earn a fully paid one-month sabbatical to truly unplug and reflect—we call it a thank-you for your impact and dedication.
  • Benefits: World-class medical, dental, and vision policies.
  • Team Connection: Annual company off-sites in fun locations. We've done New York, Costa Rica, Whistler, Palm Springs, San Diego, and Mexico City.
  • Volunteering: Every quarter, Zipliners get a paid day off to volunteer for a nonprofit of their choice.
  • Learning: We support continuous learning and provide unlimited access to our Udemy Business account
  • Great humans, great work: Work with kind, collaborative teammates who care about doing meaningful work and making a real impact. We value diversity of all kinds and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Want to learn more about how we work?

We may be remote, but we’re anything but disconnected. Zipline is a thriving, dynamic team spread across the globe—collaborating, innovating, and having a blast along the way.

Zipliners work from all over—vans, boats, Airbnbs, and everything in between. No office? No problem. Our culture still feels like one big hug.

Even though we’re distributed, we make space to connect—whether it’s our weekly all-company social or gathering in person at our yearly retreats. We’re building something meaningful together, and we’re glad you’re considering being a part of it.
We can’t wait to meet you!

Top Skills

CSS
Figma
Hotwire
HTML
JavaScript
Ruby On Rails
Stimulus
Turbo

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