
Software Architect, Back-End
Owner of TED’s back-end architecture and systems powering media, identity, and related services. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining large-scale Ruby on Rails and MySQL systems, ensuring 24/7 service reliability, implementing engineering best practices (TDD, CI/CD, observability), API authoring (GraphQL preferred), collaborating with product and engineering teams, mentoring engineers, and adopting AI-enabled workflows. Requires 10+ years Rails and MySQL experience and 12+ years overall software development experience.