Lead / Senior / Middle / Junior Trainee Ruby Software Development Engineer

Lead / Senior / Middle / Junior Trainee Ruby SDE (Python/Go optional) (GH)

We are looking for Lead, Senior, Middle and Junior Trainee Ruby Software Development Engineers for a coding-heavy automated dependency-management project at a developer platform company. The planned managed team has seven people: one Team Lead, two Senior engineers, three Middle engineers and one Junior Trainee. The scope is the open-source core of the tool, which monitors outdated or vulnerable packages and creates dependency-update pull requests across multiple package ecosystems. Its core is approximately 80% Ruby, organized as a separate Ruby gem for each ecosystem. Native helpers in languages such as JavaScript, Python, C# and Elixir invoke the real package managers. C# components are handled by Microsoft engineers. Supporting tools, including the CLI and proxy, are written in Go; new services are also written in Go. The development toolchain includes RSpec, RuboCop, Sorbet typing, Docker-based development environments and GitHub Actions CI. Candidates can explore the public dependabot-core repository to see the codebase they would work with.

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on software development skills and Ruby proficiency. Practical coding ability and the ability to understand and review existing code matter more than years of experience.
• Confident daily use of GitHub Copilot or comparable AI coding tools, including the ability to understand and review AI-generated code. The team uses GitHub Copilot in its day-to-day work.
• Experience taking code to production and supporting it afterward, including investigating incidents and resolving issues reported through support.
• Git/GitHub workflows, including pull requests, code review and CI with GitHub Actions;
• Independent delivery, end-to-end ownership and good English for meetings, pull requests and issues.

Responsibilities:

• Develop features for the open-source core of automated dependency-management tooling across approximately 37-38 package ecosystems;
• Own features end to end within quarterly planning: write and review code, ship it to production, and support it afterward, including investigating production issues. The expected mix is more than 60% feature development and approximately 40% maintenance.
• Work with the Ruby core and ecosystem-specific native helpers that invoke real package managers;
• Review and deploy community pull requests and collaborate through code review and CI;
• Participate in a weekly rotation during working hours for tasks such as publishing packages, covering team channels, merging pull requests and monitoring; this is not pager duty.

Nice to Have:

• Commercial Ruby development experience is a strong plus.
• Go experience is useful for new services. Working familiarity with Python, Java, or other languages is sufficient for package-manager integrations.
• Knowledge of package managers and ecosystems, including Bundler, npm/Yarn, pip/Poetry/uv, Go modules, Maven/Gradle, NuGet, Cargo, Docker and Terraform;
• Experience with dependency management, semantic versioning and supply-chain security, including CVEs and advisories;
• Docker experience;
• Open-source contributions to developer tooling or dependency-management repositories.

Working Conditions:

• Work model: Offshore remote;
• Daily sync: 17:30 CET; overlap until 20:00 CET is acceptable;
• During the Pacific daylight-saving period: daily sync 16:30 CET; overlap until 19:00 CET is acceptable (CET = UTC+01:00);
• Target start: An initial 1-2 people ASAP; the first seat opens on November 6, 2026, followed by a gradual ramp-up, targeting before Thanksgiving.

Locations: Egypt.