Principal Web Developer (Rails)

The role

You will act as the architect, reviewer, and quality guardian for a fleet of AI coding agents. You will define patterns, enforce standards, and review code changes to ensure quality before production.

What you will do

• Review code produced by AI agents for correctness, maintainability, security, and adherence to standards
• Define and evolve the application architecture, module boundaries, and system design principles
• Write architectural decision records, coding standards, and agent instructions
• Ensure agent-generated code meets customer needs based on feedback
• Jump into production to debug fast under pressure when things break

Required qualifications

• Very senior Rails developer with 10+ years of experience
• Experienced deploying, operating, and being on call for at least one medium-to-large Rails application in production
• Comfortable with DevOps and debugging production incidents
• Excited by the idea that AI writes the code and you shape the outcome

Nice to have

• Active contributor to the Rails community (conferences, gems, blog posts, open source)
• Experience with React, Tailwind, Stimulus, Turbo, or Hotwire
• A love of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• parental leave
• health insurance
• employee-friendly equity terms
• premium equipment
• practically unlimited token budget

About the company

Superconductor is building the autonomous software organization, a platform where agents find work in customer emails, bug reports, session replays, Slack threads, and X posts. The team of 7 is backed by $7M in funding and consists of former Gradescope co-founders and AI PhD students from UC Berkeley.