Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A remote freelance position for a senior full-stack engineer who enjoys taking ownership of products from loosely defined ideas through implementation, deployment, and monitoring. You will build customer-focused web experiences and developer-facing tools using Ruby on Rails and React, while helping shape what gets built rather than simply executing predefined tickets.
Highlights
Fully remote freelance opportunity for a senior product-minded engineer, with significant ownership from concept through production and the chance to work on developer-focused software used at large scale.
Description
Location: Remote
Collaboration: Freelance, via Monterail Tech Network Start: ASAP The project
Some products you use every day without ever seeing them.
This is one of those.
Our client is a well-established B2D (business-to-developer) SaaS platform -real-time infrastructure that moves billions of messages a day for developers around the world.
Live chat, dashboards, collaborative apps, state synchronization: if it updates in front of your eyes, there's a good chance technology like this is running underneath.
The role
This is a product-minded engineering role, not ticket execution.
The team is deliberately moving away from reactive delivery toward engineers who understand customers and drive outcomes.
You'll take features from a loose concept to shipped and monitored in production — dashboards, billing UIs, documentation platforms, developer-facing tools — proposing what should be built, not waiting for a roadmap to tell you.
And here's the fun part: the customers are developers.
You'll use the product yourself and fix the frustrations you'd want fixed.
What We're Looking For
A fullstack craftsman.
You're strong in Ruby on Rails and React and comfortable moving across the stack - from complex dashboards to sleek documentation platformsA DevEx champion.
You have natural empathy for other developers and genuinely care about the developer experience of the tools you buildComfortable with ambiguity.
You thrive when the brief is vague.
You identify problems, propose solutions, and ship with minimal hand-holdingAn owner.
You see features through their entire lifecycle — from the first line of code to the final metric in production.
Quality issues that surface after release are still yoursA proactive communicator.
You give realistic estimates, meet your commitments, and speak up early if a timeline is at riskFluent with AI coding assistants.
The team uses them actively for planning, prototyping, and iteration — you should too, while owning the correctness and quality of everything that shipsDesign and UX intuition.
You notice when a flow feels wrong and you're not afraid to say so
Tech stack
React + TypeScript on the frontend, Ruby on Rails on the backend, some Node/TypeScript services, PostgreSQL underneath.
Nice to have
Experience building developer-first products or working on B2D platformsExperience with products grown through product-led growth (PLG)Background in real-time, messaging, or infrastructure-adjacent products
How the collaboration works
This is a freelance engagement through the Monterail Tech Network - you work with us on a B2B basis, embedded in the client's team, with Monterail handling the partnership side.
Read more about what freelancing with us looks like at Monterail Tech Network.
Sound like you?
Send us your resume — and if you've built anything for developers before, we'd love to hear about it.
