Discourse Integration Specialist
We're seeking an experienced Ruby developer to deliver a fast, clean, and production-ready integration between Discourse and an existing Community application. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of SSO flows [OIDC, OAuth2] and secure token handling.
This is a high-impact engagement supporting an active squad. You'll work closely with backend, frontend, security, IT, and data engineering partners to unblock engineers, validate designs, and land the integration safely behind feature flags.
You'll be responsible for delivering the P1 Discourse to a Community application integration within two sprints. This includes implementing SSO using Okta and OIDC, creating and testing group and role mapping between the Community roles and Discourse groups, building backend Ruby adapters for moderation, taxonomy, and role syncing, gated behind feature flags.
Additionally, you'll implement shared header and navigation elements for a consistent cross-platform experience, create and validate webhook pipelines from Discourse into Snowflake for analytics, develop a clear cutover and rollback plan, including checklists and validation steps, write or review technical designs, threat models, and operational readiness docs, pair with frontend and backend engineers to land adapters, UI integration, and test coverage, coordinate closely with Security and IT on Okta configuration, secrets, and access policies, work with Data Engineering to finalize webhook schemas, retries, and observability, support sprint ceremonies, demos, and unblock teammates on integration or Ruby-related work, and ensure all deliverables are tested, documented, and ready for production.
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, strong hands-on experience customizing and extending Discourse, deep understanding of SSO flows [OIDC, OAuth2, Okta] and secure token handling, proven experience delivering integrations behind feature flags or staged rollouts, comfortable writing technical designs, threat models, and operational runbooks, solid experience with APIs, background jobs, webhooks, and data syncing, excellent communication and collaboration skills in distributed teams, and advanced English.
Nice to Have: experience with Snowflake or similar analytics platforms, familiarity with frontend integration of shared headers or cross-app navigation, prior work in enterprise environments that require coordination across IT, Security, and Data teams, experience building rollback strategies and production cutover plans, and hands-on experience with DevOps or infrastructure supporting Ruby services.
This is a critical, high-visibility integration that will significantly impact how users navigate between Discourse and the Community platform. You'll collaborate with a focused, friendly, and fast-moving team, and you'll own a deliverable that immediately impacts thousands of users.
If you enjoy solving complex integration puzzles, delivering reliable Ruby code, and helping cross-functional teams move faster, this project is an excellent fit.