Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Build and architect customer-facing platforms across PHP/Laravel and React, with real ownership of technical decisions.
Careers at Ryerson
Build things that actually go into production
We are a senior-weighted team, which means less hand-holding and more ownership. If you want to be the person who decides how something gets built — and then builds it — you will like working here.
Life here
No bench, no filler projects, no mystery roadmap
Everyone here works on real client problems with real constraints. You will see the business context behind the ticket, talk to the people who use what you build, and have a say in the architecture rather than inheriting it.
We hire for judgement over keyword matches. If your background is adjacent rather than exact but you can reason clearly about trade-offs, apply anyway and tell us how you think.
- Four-stage hiring process, finished inside two weeks
- Paid, scoped technical exercise — never free work
- Salary band shared in the first conversation
- Written feedback whether or not you get an offer
Benefits
What we offer
Nothing exotic — just the things that make a technical career sustainable.
Remote-friendly by default
Work from our San Jose office, from home, or from a mix of both — with core overlap hours rather than fixed desks.
Health & wellbeing
Medical, dental and vision coverage, plus a monthly wellbeing allowance you can actually spend on what helps.
Learning budget
An annual budget for certifications, courses and conferences, with dedicated time set aside to use it.
Paid time off that is taken
Generous PTO, paid holidays and a culture where managers notice if your balance is not going down.
Mentorship and progression
Defined engineering and design career tracks with quarterly reviews against published expectations.
Meaningful project variety
Healthcare, fintech, logistics and retail work — rarely the same problem twice in a year.
Open roles
Current openings
Apply with a CV and a short note on the kind of problems you want to be working on.
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Own infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and observability across AWS and Azure client estates.
Machine Learning Engineer
Take applied AI projects from baseline metric to production model, including MLOps and drift monitoring.
Senior Product Designer (UI/UX)
Lead research and interface design for data-dense enterprise products, embedded with engineering.
QA Automation Engineer
Design automated test strategy across web and mobile, and keep release pipelines trustworthy.
Technical Project Manager
Run multiple concurrent client engagements, protect scope and keep communication clear on both sides.
Nothing that fits?
We keep speculative applications on file for twelve months and genuinely do go back to them. Send your CV with a note about what you would like to work on.
Hiring process
What applying looks like
01
Intro call
30 minutes with the hiring manager. Role, band, team and your questions — no whiteboard.
02
Technical chat
A conversation about work you have actually done, and how you reasoned through it.
03
Paid exercise
A small, scoped task that resembles the real job. Paid at your day rate.
04
Offer
Decision and written feedback within three working days of the final stage.