Ruby on Rails job market in Israel — still alive?
Hi everyone! I'm making aliyah soon and trying to understand the Ruby / Rails situation in Israel. A couple of questions for people in the local scene:
- Is Rails still widely used here, or is it a shrinking niche?
- How realistic is it to land a senior Ruby offer as a new oleh?
A bit about me: ~10 years in software overall, ~5 of them focused on infrastructure. I'm a senior RoR dev, but my real edge is on the platform side — I've built FinOps/billing systems (ETL pipelines, cost/consumption reporting), ITSM/incident tooling, and AI integrations,I. Day to day I also work with Kubernetes, Sidekiq, Postgres/Redis, and etc. Before all that I did embedded and quantum-hardware firmware, so I'm comfortable pretty low in the stack too. I like Rust and use it for my pet projects.
So I'm aiming at Ruby roles with an infra/platform flavor, ideally around fintech or payments where that billing background pays off.
Two things I'd love pointers on:
Companies that actually fit this profile (Ruby + real infrastructure).
Meetups, Slack/Telegram groups, or communities worth joining — especially anything Ruby Israel or olim-in-tech related.
Any tips on the olim job hunt in general would be gold too. Thanks!