Only applicants who reside and have the right to work in the UK will be considered.
Job Title: Senior Ruby Developer Business Area: Product and Technology Reporting to: Head of Engineering Location: UK, high degree of homeworking Role: As a Senior Ruby Developer joining our team, you will play a key role in designing and building both existing and new applications.
The role requires that you are comfortable assuming responsibility and autonomy to deliver production-ready code on-time.
You will be responsible for improving scalability and functionality of existing systems by identifying areas for improvement and performance bottlenecks.
Additionally, you will actively investigate and promote new technologies and practices and show a willingness to voice opinion and learn.
Person Specification: Experience / Attributes - Able to excel in a fast-moving environment; business and technical requirements can and do change rapidly in our industry - Able to troubleshoot complex problems efficiently; we often have to investigate complex issues in a live environment where both speed and safety are paramount.
- Possess excellent communication skills and be able to articulate technical issues clearly and accurately to non-technical members of the team.
- Able to work effectively with vague and/or incomplete requirements, making pragmatic decisions and assumptions where appropriate.
- Comfortable working across front-end (10-20%) and back end (80-90%) technology stacks to develop business logic and database layers.
- Enjoy a highly collaborative working approach using an agile based methodology - Be comfortable with remote working (we are 100% remote) but still being part of a team.
Willing and able to occasionally travel for meetings and team collaboration – typically into Central London.
Technical Skills Essential - Extensive Ruby on Rails experience - Extensive testing experience and writing testable code - Experience in application design / application architecture - Strong relational database experience (we use Postgres) - JavaScript Advantageous - Docker (used in all environments including development) - AWS experience - ReactJS - Redis Kindly note, we are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies, and speculative CVs will not be considered.
We can also consider candidates who reside and have the right to work in the UK.