At

Alkimii , we’re on a mission to transform how hospitality businesses manage their people and property operations.

Our platform helps hotels run smoother operations, improve team communication and create better workplaces for their employees.

As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a

Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

to join our development team in Spain and help us continue evolving the Alkimii platform.

If you enjoy writing clean code, solving real production problems, shipping improvements quickly and using modern tools — including

AI-assisted development

— you might feel right at home here.

Who are we? We are

Alkimii , a fast-growing Irish SaaS company building software that helps hospitality businesses run better operations.

Hundreds of hospitality teams rely on Alkimii every day to manage their people, processes and property operations.

We are a

software company at heart , and engineering sits at the centre of everything we do.

What’s the opportunity? You’ll join a team of

wonderful humans building a product that evolves continuously .

Our engineers work on both:

improving and supporting the existing platform

Because our software is used daily by real hospitality teams,

stability, reliability and speed of iteration matter just as much as new features .

Engineers here participate in conversations that shape the product — and are expected to take ownership of their work from idea to delivery.

Writing clean, well-tested Ruby code

Working with Ruby, Rails and GraphQL

Debugging production issues and improving existing systems

Shipping improvements quickly and seeing them used by real customers

Collaborating with engineers, product specialists and designers

Solving technical problems with pragmatism

Using modern developer tools — including

AI coding assistants and agents

— to work faster and smarter

If that sounds like you… keep scrolling.

What will you be doing? You’ll contribute across the product lifecycle — from maintaining the stability of the platform to building new functionality.





Support and improve the existing platform A key part of this role is ensuring our platform runs smoothly for the teams that depend on it.

You’ll:

Investigate and resolve production issues

Improve existing features and workflows

Debug complex problems across the system

Work closely with customer and product teams to address real operational challenges

Build product improvements You’ll also contribute to the evolution of the product by developing new functionality.

Working with:

Ruby / Rails

GraphQL

Vue.js

The features you help build and improve will be used daily by hospitality teams running their operations.

Write high-quality code You’ll:

Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code

Participate in code reviews and technical discussions

Contribute to maintaining strong engineering standards

We write a lot of tests.

Improve performance and scalability As our platform grows, so do the technical challenges.

You’ll help:

Optimise database queries and application performance

Diagnose bottlenecks and improve system reliability

Contribute to scaling the platform as usage grows

Contribute to the platform’s evolution You’ll also help improve how we build and ship software:

Supporting Ruby and Rails upgrades

Improving deployment pipelines

Contributing to infrastructure improvements using AWS and Docker

Exploring new tooling and workflows that help the team move faster

Ruby / Rails

GraphQL

Vue.js

AWS

Docker

What we expect from you Experience

Solid experience working with Ruby on Rails

Experience working in product or engineering teams

Technical skills

Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns

Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL)





Writing efficient queries and debugging performance issues

Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred)

Mindset

Proactive “manager of one” mentality — comfortable taking ownership of problems and driving solutions

Focus on delivering and shipping improvements regularly

Curious and pragmatic problem solver

Comfortable collaborating in cross-functional teams

Open to using modern developer tooling — including AI coding assistants, LLMs and coding agents — to improve productivity and development workflows

Nice to have

Experience with GraphQL

Background job frameworks (Shoryuken)

Docker and CI/CD pipelinesExperience working in SaaS environments

What success looks like after 12 months

Contributed to improving the stability and reliability of the platform

Delivered meaningful improvements and features used by customers

Participating actively in technical discussions and architecture decisions

Helping the team move faster through good engineering practices and effective tooling

What can you expect from us

Full time competitive salary

Coverflex - Versátil compensation & employee benefits

Innovative technology (Ruby, GrahpQL...) and a continuously developing product that we own.

Wellbeing programs, learning and growth opportunities

Flexible working week, because we take seriously the productivity and wellbeing of our team

Learning and growth opportunities. Opportunity to work on new projects every 6 - 9 months. You will work on meaningful and challenging tasks in a relaxed yet supportive environment. We want you to rock and shine!

4,000 Employee Referral Program

Trips to Malaga / Dublin for our Annual Conference and get to know the team

Quarterly team meet-ups

Freedom to choose your work setup, we choose MacBook Pro Max but you can use whatever you like

Work remotely - from Spain only - or in a beautiful building in the historic city centre of Málaga with a lively social life. Alameda Principal is close to the port, the Cathedral and many local amenities.

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📌 Senior Ruby Software Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Alkimii
📍 Barcelona