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Hire Ruby developers who keep long-lived code easy to change
Services, gems, background jobs and the tooling that has run quietly for years. A dedicated Ruby developer from Latin America who works your hours, adds tests before changing anything and leaves the code clearer than they found it.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire a Ruby developer?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
Dedicated to your codebase
One Ruby developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.
Same hours as your team
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.
Searched against your stack
Ruby version, frameworks, gems and where the code runs come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
TECH STACK
The Ruby stack we screen for
Language and tooling
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Modern Ruby versions
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Bundler and gem management
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RuboCop
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Writing and publishing internal gems
Frameworks beyond Rails
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Sinatra
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Hanami
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Rack applications
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Command line tools and scripts
Background work and data
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Sidekiq and Redis
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PostgreSQL with Sequel or ActiveRecord
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Scheduled jobs
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API clients and integrations
Quality
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RSpec and Minitest
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Test coverage on legacy code
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Profiling memory and speed
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Docker and CI pipelines
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
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| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top skills to look for in a Ruby developer
Ruby is expressive, which makes it easy to write code only its author understands. These are the skills that keep a Ruby codebase readable and safe to change.
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Plain, readable Ruby
Uses the language's expressiveness for clarity, not for clever one-liners the next developer has to decode.
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Metaprogramming with restraint
Knows how method_missing and define_method work, and uses them only when they make the code simpler to follow.
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Tests before changes
Writes RSpec or Minitest coverage around old behavior before refactoring it, so nothing breaks silently.
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Gems and dependencies
Keeps the Gemfile lean, upgrades on a schedule and reads what a gem does before adding it.
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Background jobs
Designs jobs that can run twice without harm, with retries, timeouts and monitoring on the queue.
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Performance and memory
Profiles before optimizing, and finds the allocation or the query that slows a process instead of guessing.
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Upgrades
Moves code and gems across Ruby versions in small steps, fixing deprecation warnings before they become errors.
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AI output, reviewed
Uses coding assistants for boilerplate and tests, and reviews every line before it reaches production.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire Ruby developers
Most Ruby job posts really mean Rails, but a lot of Ruby lives outside it: services, gems, jobs and tooling that run for years. This guide covers how to define the role, what to test, the red flags and when a dedicated Ruby developer is the wrong hire.
What does a Ruby developer do?
Writes and maintains Ruby code: services and APIs, background job systems, internal gems shared across applications, integrations and the command line tools your team relies on.
Day to day that means shipping changes, reviewing code, keeping Ruby and its gems current and making old code safe to change by adding tests around it.
Ruby or Ruby on Rails: which do you need?
If your product is a Rails application, hire a Rails developer. The framework has its own conventions, and experience running a Rails app in production matters more than general Ruby knowledge.
Hire for Ruby when the work lives outside Rails, or spans several codebases: a Sinatra or Hanami service, a set of internal gems, job workers or tooling. Say which in the brief.
Code that has run for years
Ruby code that runs quietly for years becomes hard to change once its author leaves. It often has thin tests, pinned old gems and a style nobody else on the team writes.
Ask the candidate how they would take over code like that. A strong answer starts with running it, adding tests around what it does today and upgrading in small steps.
Gems, versions and upgrades
Deferred upgrades add up. An old Ruby version pins old gems, and old gems block security fixes.
Ask how they have moved a codebase to a newer Ruby version, how they handled gems that were no longer maintained and how they kept the change small enough to review.
What to test in a Ruby developer interview
Give a small task close to your real work: a class that calls an external API, handles a failure and has tests. Read how they name things, structure the code and test the failure path.
Then show them a piece of clever Ruby with a hidden bug and ask them to explain and simplify it. You will hear whether they value clarity over cleverness.
Red flags in Ruby developer candidates
Cleverness over clarity. Dense one-liners and heavy metaprogramming in an interview task become code nobody else on your team can change.
Refactoring without tests. A candidate who rewrites old code before covering its behavior will break things nobody knew it did.
A gem for everything. Adding dependencies for small tasks, without checking maintenance, grows your upgrade problem.
Jobs that cannot run twice. Background jobs that double-charge or double-send on a retry are a sign they have not run queues in production.
Generated code they cannot explain. Ask them to walk through code they wrote with an AI assistant. If they cannot say why it works, nobody has reviewed it.
When should you not hire a dedicated Ruby developer?
When the Ruby code is a few stable scripts that rarely change. A full-time developer will not have enough to do, and a short engagement to add tests and document them may be enough.
It is also the wrong hire when nobody on your side can review code or set priorities. A single developer with no technical lead and no product owner tends to build what is interesting instead of what the business needs.
How much does it cost to hire a Ruby developer?
It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire a Ruby developer in Latin America?
Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.
The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send the Ruby version, frameworks and gems you run, where the code runs, the kind of work and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
What is the difference between a Ruby developer and a Ruby on Rails developer?
Can a Ruby developer take over an old codebase?
Can you also find Rails developers?
How fast can a Ruby developer start?
What is the $299 for?
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Who is the legal employer?
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
What happens if the person does not work out?
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.