“DJ is phenomenal. They find amazing candidates, make hiring extraordinary devs easy. Think of it as having a top recruiter, HR, and payroll departments in dozens of countries.”
Get a curated shortlist of senior Sidekiq engineers who optimize your background jobs, crush latency, and harden reliability. We headhunt senior developers for you, whether you need them remotely, on-site, or relocated. Expect US time-zone overlap, deep vetting, and a money-back guarantee.
Andres
Recruitment Expert
Verified
Core Sidekiq: Queues, priorities, scheduled jobs, retries & back-off, dead-set handling, Idempotency strategies, Pro/Enterprise features, Graceful shutdown, concurrency tuning.
Security & Compliance: Code protection, least-privilege Redis access, PII/PCI handling, key rotation, audit trails.
Ruby/Rails Integration: ActiveJob vs native Sidekiq trade-offs, transactional outbox/publish, DB locks, Multi-tenancy, job serialization, encrypted arguments, safe deserialization.
Reliability & Observability:Distributed tracing & metrics, Structured logging & correlation ID, Backpressure & circuit breakers to protect DBs and third-party APIs.
Redis Mastery: Memory models & eviction policies, key cardinality, Lua scripts, pipelines, High availability , persistence , networking timeouts.
Performance & Cost: Throughput profiling, batch patterns, fan-out/fan-in, Caching, connection pools, job payload budgets.
Ihor
Senior Ruby/Sidekiq Engineer
9+ years building and scaling background job systems for fintech and high-traffic SaaS. Led migrations from Resque/Delayed::Job to Sidekiq in production environments.
Iryna
Ruby on Rails + Sidekiq
7+ years on marketplace and e-commerce platforms focused on reliability and scale. Deep hands-on with Sidekiq Pro/Enterprise features.
Luigi
Full-Stack Rails / Sidekiq
10+ years across product and platform teams; specializes in performance tuning and cost-efficient throughput at scale.
Testimonials
“DJ is phenomenal. They find amazing candidates, make hiring extraordinary devs easy. Think of it as having a top recruiter, HR, and payroll departments in dozens of countries.”
“DistantJob took the time to talk about the job description and explore what was important to us. They came back with a great candidate on the first try!”
“I can easily say that I’ve never worked with a more dedicated, patient, and productive developer. DistantJob made the remote engagement painless. Win-win!”
“We have 3 employees from DistantJob right now. Phenomenal. For the dollar value that we are spending, we are far ahead of what we would find locally or offshore.”
“Hiring through DistantJob (…) surpassed my expectations. I had no opinion before, neither for [remote work] or against, but this experience definitely put it on the radar for me.”
“DistantJob is great for helping you find technical folks especially when your local area doesn’t have the right pool of talent for the job.”
“The remote developers presented by DistantJob] delivered a caliber of quality, skill and technical expertise, beyond my best expectations, far exceeding our local team members.”
“Working with DistantJob made everything about recruiting a highly technical employee easier and cost-effective.”
As a leading remote IT recruitment agency, we care that our clients take part throughout the hiring process. Why? Because for us, hiring a qualified candidate is not only about the skills and abilities, but it’s also about how candidates match with your company’s culture.
As soon as you talk with us or fill our form, the first thing we do is analyze your company. We want to understand your culture and the type of people you value working with.
In 2 weeks, you’ll start reviewing people that match your requirements. We focus on providing you 3-5 top candidates instead of giving you an endless list.
Once you select the candidate, we handle all the contracts, NDA’s and payments from day 1.
We proactively source across global markets and triage applicants based on their expertise, salary band, U.S. time-zone overlap, English fluency, and long-term availability.
A recruiter assesses English proficiency, async communication, culture add, motivation, and availability. We verify work history and stability (no serial short stints).
Practical task (90–120 min): Fix duplicate execution on retry, implement unique locks, and add metrics/alerts. Ask for incident post-mortems and probe Redis knowledge.
Senior engineers run a live session to walk through design trade-offs, testing approach, and deployment basics.
We speak with past stakeholders and review code artifacts where possible. We confirm achievements, ownership level, and reliability in distributed teams.
We align on start date, hardware/security constraints, preferred collaboration tools, and, when needed, relocation logistics inside the US.
| Criteria | DistantJob (Remote, Full-Time) | US Contract Bench | Freelance Marketplaces |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to Hire | 2–4 weeks (headhunted seniors) | Days–2 weeks | 24–72 hrs |
| Continuity | High (embedded, long-term) | Medium (rotations) | Low |
| Cost (TCO) | Lower for senior talent | High hourly markup | Premium hourly for experts |
| Vetting Depth | Sidekiq-specific scenarios + refs | Variable | Platform filters only |
| US-Hours Overlap | Yes (LATAM/EU) | Often yes | Not guaranteed |
| Compliance/IP | Handled by DistantJob | Often client-managed | Varies |
You can find Sidekiq developers locally on Linkedin, on freelance platforms liek Upwork or Fiver, or via nearshore full-time placement with DistantJob. For reliability and long-term velocity, full-time embedded seniors usually win.
The skills a Sidekiq developer have are:
Core Sidekiq (retries, dead-set, unique jobs), idempotency, Redis HA/Cluster, observability, performance tuning, and Rails integration patterns (outbox, transactions).
No. We place full-time remote employees who work in your repos and rituals.
Most teams onboard a Happstack developer in 2–4 weeks.
Yes, the shortlists prioritize dependable overlap and strong async communication.
Yes: global contracts, NDA, payroll, benefits, and compliance are included.
You’re covered by our money-back and replacement guarantees.
Ready to hire the best developers, 40% faster than the industry average? Give us your email, and our account manager will get in touch ASAP!
When you partner with DistantJob for your next hire, you get the highest quality developers who will deliver expert work on time. We headhunt developers globally; that means you can expect candidates within two weeks or less and at a great value.
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