Updated August 3, 2026

27 open positions

Rails Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 27+ rails jobs at companies offering best places to work and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Fin, Braze, and Gusto.

27

Jobs

4

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Staff Backend Engineer

1mo

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k

Senior Manager, AI Engineering

1mo

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$240k – $280k

Senior Full Stack Engineer, AI Scheduling

2mo

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$187k – $272k

Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack

1mo

RemoteUSA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$185k – $225k

Senior Software Engineer, Core Systems & Integrations

20d

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$156k – $224k

Technical Support Engineer

2d

HybridSydney, Australia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Software Engineer, HR Experiences

6d

HybridNew York, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$199k – $247k

Senior ML Ops Engineer

4d

OnsiteNew York City, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$210k – $300k

Forward Deployed Engineer

4d

OnsiteNew York City, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k – $270k

Staff Software Engineer, Core Products

1mo

HybridNew York, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$197k – $247k

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Async

2mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$220k – $250k

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

3mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$185k – $218k

Senior Developer Experience Engineer

2mo

HybridMexico City +2 more

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$168k – $212k

Staff Software Engineer

17d

HybridAustin, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$169k – $232k

Technical Support Engineer

24d

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Software Engineer, Network

2mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$130k – $220k

Software Engineer, Traffic

2mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$130k – $220k

Software Engineer, Edge

2mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$130k – $220k

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Scaling & Performance

2mo

HybridNew York, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$180k – $245k

Technical Support Engineer

2mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$81k – $98k

Engineering Manager, Email

2mo

HybridNew York City, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$160k – $283k

Engineering Manager, Email

2mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$160k – $283k

Engineering Manager, Email

2mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$160k – $283k

Principal Software Engineer - Pay Group Engineering

3mo

HybridDenver +2 more

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$215k – $295k

Senior Product Engineer, AI

2mo

HybridDublin or London

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Engineering Manager, Email

2mo

HybridAustin, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$160k – $283k

Engineering Manager, Email

2mo

HybridToronto, Canada

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$191k – $338k

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Rails on this page include Fin, Braze, and Gusto. Rails roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Rails is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Rails roles span the full seniority range — we list 31 open roles requiring Rails across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Rails hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Rails roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Rails candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Rails on current listings.