Top 10 highest paying companies that use Ruby on Rails

Full-time role with salary range $185K-$485K; carry in the fund (equity) and generous relocation support; engineers get unlimited AI tokens.

Product Engineers on YC's own team. YC has an 18-person software team with no PMs; engineers own end-to-end delivery. The team builds software behind YC's $6B in investments, including tools that help partners evaluate thousands of startups per batch, AI-powered apps used daily by founders, and platforms like Work at a Startup connecting candidates with YC companies. Engineers receive unlimited AI tokens for development and for building AI-powered products. The roles differ from other roles by deep exposure to startups across industries, direct work with founders and partners (including attending Demo Day and founder dinners), strong compensation with fund carry (equity), and generous relocation support for those not already in SF. Two roles open: (1) Product Engineer (full-stack, own the product lifecycle) using a Rails/React stack; build tools powering how YC invests in and supports startups. (2) Community Builder and Software Engineer (hybrid) running YC's talent-facing programs (meetups, tech talks, career expos) and building the software to scale them; requires strong engineering skills and a passion for supporting communities. YC is also exploring a Technical Chief of Staff role working with a GP, involving analytical thinking, driving operations, and scaling what they do with software. Apply by checking roles on the careers page and emailing Ryan directly to learn more.

Cash compensation of $250K - $350K with meaningful equity compensation as the Founding Engineer of a new business.

Assembly is a vertically-integrated, technology-native holding company that acquires industrial real estate. We take an AI-native approach across the full surface area of our business; data-based geography selection, owner outreach, due diligence, deal structuring / scenario analysis, property & tenant management, and more. Our intention is to build one of the largest real estate companies in the world, and to be the most technology-native real estate owner in history. We are hiring a Founding Engineer (Full-Stack) to design and build our proprietary technology stack from inception. You will own the development of our tech stack and have significant autonomy to build. Experience with Python, React / TS, LLM APIs, data pipelines, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, web scraping and entity resolution are relevant. Cash compensation of $250K - $350K with meaningful equity compensation as the Founding Engineer of a new business. To apply, please reach out to swc@assemblygh.com.

Salary range: $150-$300k

Triumph Financial is building the modern freight payments network powering over $37B in annual volume, aiming to make freight transactions seamless, accurate, and secure. They have open roles for the Carrier vertical: Lead/Staff level engineers (.NET with F# in production or Rails backend) and a Staff Product Manager (two roles: one user-facing and one for operations focused on building efficiencies). Roles are listed on their careers page. Candidates should include “Ash HN” or something similar in referrals and can reach out with questions to aanderson at tfin dot com.

160k-285k (Based on experience) + (Based on Tiered City Location) + H1 and H2 Bonus + Other Benefits, 125k-200k (Based on experience) + (Based on Tiered City Location) + H1 and H2 Bonus + Other Benefits, 148k-239k (Based on experience) + (Based on Tiered City Location) + H1 and H2 Bonus + Other Benefits

Mission-driven. People-powered. Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.

IC principal roles range $198K–$273K base + equity. Engineering management roles start around $169K base + equity. Compensation described as competitive.

Hiring across engineering in Austin, TX (onsite) for individual contributor and management roles at all levels. Work on a large-scale Ruby on Rails monolith serving thousands of concurrent users, plus frontend and supporting services using React, TypeScript and Node.js. Responsibilities include performance, scalability, developer experience, streaming data infrastructure, mobile platform devops, and security.

Head of Engineering & Infrastructure: $182k - $272k USD. Senior DevOps Engineer: $115k - $180k USD. Benefits: paid time off (2 weeks vacation, 5 statutory holidays, 2 weeks at Christmas, 4-day summer workweeks), annual company retreat, anniversary gift ($200/year), monthly music subscription reimbursement, fully paid maternity & paternity leave.

Hiring for two roles: Head of Engineering & Infrastructure (full ownership of engineering and infrastructure teams, ensure performance and reliability for 12M+ members) and Senior DevOps Engineer (implement infrastructure upgrades, DB tuning, Kubernetes/Helm orchestration, monitoring, security, maintain Rails monolith, CI/CD, participate in on-call rotation and automate DevOps tasks).

$150K-$260K annual total comp (multiple tiers); Tier 3: $150-$180K total annual comp (5-10 years); Tier 4: $215-$260K total annual comp (11-20 years).

People-first boutique tech agency creating on-demand teams and software solutions. Leadership team is ex-Fortune 100 and still codes. Remote-first, but some onsite work may be involved. Founder/CEO emphasizes an ownership mindset and reviews every hire personally. Roles include back-end, front-end, and full-stack software engineers (Tier 3 and Tier 4). Tier 3 typically requires 5-10 years experience; Tier 4 requires 11-20 years experience. Clients increasingly demand senior/staff engineers with modern agentic approaches; candidates should explain model strengths/limitations. Applicants should apply via the provided Google Form.

$180-$250k

At TriumphPay, we are building the transportation payments network for the future. With our payments and audit products, we touch over $50 billion in unique brokered freight transactions across the United States. Our customers use our products to solve real world problems and operate in our software all day every day. This is both exciting and also an incredible responsibility. We are looking for experienced full-stack engineers to join our team of 50+ engineers. You will work closely in a team of 3-5 people on a specific project. Inside this team, you will manage your own backlog and schedule. We rotate teams and work areas quarterly to give you a breadth of experience. We are a fully remote engineering organization that believes strongly in work life balance and strong boundaries. We care about our environment because we know that we do our best work when we are happy and feel valued.

Base Salary + Equity. Base range: $160,000 - $240,000

We are Academia.edu. Our mission is to accelerate and democratize the world's research because scientific discovery is based on it, and scientific discovery benefits everyone. With over 180M free registered users and nearly half of the world’s academics using our platform every month, we are in a unique position to disrupt the $25B academic publishing industry. Our users range from researchers, academics, industry professionals and college students, with over 300,000 paying premium subscribers, contributing to a doubling in revenue over the last four years. Our Stack: - Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq - PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch - React + Typescript - RSpec, Chromatic, Jest, Storybook - CircleCI, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform - AWS ecosystem (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, many others) - You don’t need to know any or all of these, but must be willing to learn! What you’ll work on You'll be designing and building systems to make our user base more productive on our platform. Here are some things that we are currently working on: - A fast and scalable peer review system that identifies and distributes high-quality academic works - Services that help academic authors understand the impact of their scholarship via text parsing and computation of bibliometrics - Algorithmic approaches to identification of academic content and disambiguation of authorships in order to make every paper ever written available for free - A paper recommendation engine that helps users discover the most relevant research - Search Engine Optimizations to improve the discoverability of our corpus of 50M+ PDFs

$170k-225k + equity

At Pocketflows, we’re on a mission to help Main Street SMBs grow. We build marketing and communication APIs that embed inside the vertical SaaS platforms that businesses like salons, fitness studios, and restaurants already use to run their operations. As a founding engineer, you'll be launching new marketing products in addition to our existing email, SMS, and review platform. Our values blend ambition with kindness and empathy.