Backend Engineer - Ruby on Rails & Go

ABOUT US
Indie Campers is the leading campervan provider, dedicated to making road trips accessible and unforgettable for everyone. Innovation, product-led growth, and an unwavering commitment to our customers are at the heart of everything we do. With more than one million nights rented and travellers from 169 countries, we provide a single and trustworthy digital experience for road trips in the United States, Europe and Oceania, with different campervan configuration options and even the chance to buy one of our vehicles.

Our ambitions are big, and so are the challenges we embrace. We are scaling our technology organisation to unlock the next wave of automation and AI-powered experiences that will delight customers and empower employees worldwide.

THE ROLE
Join the pioneers of our Mexico City tech pod to build revenue-critical services in the Indie Campers Platform and Websites related to pricing, availability, checkout, and partner integrations, owning them end-to-end from design to CI/CD and observability. You will use Ruby on Rails for product velocity and Go for high-throughput services, bringing pragmatic DevOps skills to keep systems healthy.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?

• Design and build REST/GraphQL APIs and event-driven services in Rails and Go (Postgres/Redis/Kafka or Pub/Sub).
• Own domain models, performance, scalability, and data correctness.
• Contribute to DevOps: Docker images, CI pipelines, IaC (Terraform), release strategy, SLOs/SLIs, error budgets.
• Instrument observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Sentry) and keep services healthy.
• Collaborate with Product, Frontend, Data, and Growth; write clear RFCs and ADRs.
• Champion testing culture (RSpec, go test), code reviews, and secure coding practices.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• 4+ years shipping backend services; production experience with Ruby on Rails and Go.
• Strong SQL/Postgres skills; caching, queues, and asynchronous processing.
• Comfortable with AWS/GCP, Docker, CI/CD, and basic Terraform.
• Experience with performance profiling and high-availability systems.
• Nice to have: payments (Stripe/Adyen), pricing engines, marketplace or inventory systems.
• English & Spanish proficiency; collaborative, product-minded, metrics-driven.

CORE VALUES AND OPERATING PRINCIPLES

• Customer First: Relentless in providing the best service at the best price to all customers.
• Ownership: Proactively take ownership and deliver on our goals.
• Committed: Work together, as a team, for the long-term.
• Learn, build and structure.
• Be precise and go deep.

Are you ready to Go Indie?