Location: Remote · Collaboration: Freelance, via Monterail Tech Network · Start: ASAP
The projectSome 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 roleThis 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 platforms.
- A DevEx champion. You have natural empathy for other developers and genuinely care about the developer experience of the tools you build.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. You thrive when the brief is vague. You identify problems, propose solutions, and ship with minimal hand-holding.
- An 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 yours.
- A proactive communicator. You give realistic estimates, meet your commitments, and speak up early if a timeline is at risk.
- Fluent 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 ships.
- Design and UX intuition. You notice when a flow feels wrong and you're not afraid to say so.
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 platforms
- Experience with products grown through product-led growth (PLG)
- Background in real-time, messaging, or infrastructure-adjacent products
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.
Skills Required
- Expert in Ruby on Rails
- Expert in TypeScript
- Experience building complex dashboards, billing UIs, and documentation platforms
- Deep knowledge of the platform (Pub/Sub, Chat, LiveSync) and use of the product
- Strong developer empathy and focus on developer experience (DevEx)
- Ability to take loosely defined features from concept to shipped product with minimal guidance
- Produce high-quality, well-tested code; provide realistic estimates and proactive communication
- Take ownership of features in production and monitor for quality issues
- Freelancer/contractor engagement
What We Do
Monterail is a full-service software development company with 130+ experts on board delivering meaningful software for the fintech, proptech, wellness, and eCommerce sectors. For over 13 years now, we use Ruby on Rails and Flutter to build beautiful web and mobile applications. We have delivered 390+ successful projects for over 235 clients from different parts of the world. In 2016 & 2017 we were recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Central Europe as well as listed in the Financial Times 1000 rank two times in a row, in 2018 and 2019.
