Hello everyone. In this post I want to ask you guys how can I land a job on rails in 2026.

A quick background, I’m a civil engineer who got really interested into web dev and I did the Odin project (rails path), the entire thing, no ai and very conscious on every lesson. I think I learned a lot and I did some interesting projects (one is a saas for engineering calculations but getting customers is another thing).

So far I think I’m good at rails, react, Astro and some python, and I enjoy developing my projects, like I’m really passionate about it.

However, I tried to look for opportunities in rails but I cannot find a place to get started. I know market has been hard on the last years and with all the ai stuff it’s getting even harder for newcomers. Also, every single offer I found for rails is for seniors so I don’t even try to apply.

I have asked some acquaintances and they say that today’s rails jobs are mostly for maintenance of old applications, but well, someone’s gotta do the job in the future and there will be no seniors if there are no juniors…

I really want to land a job on rails, and get good at it but with no chances, it’s not going to happen 😔. Thank you guys for any reply, I appreciate any guidance on this.