Jenrick Commercial Looking for Ruby Developer – Amazing Company with Culture to Match at London Full Time
Ruby Developer, Amazing Fintech Company with fantastic track record of growth, Up to £105,000 + Great Benefits, London with Hybrid or Full Remote working.
Overview of the Ruby Developer:
Are you someone who has a passion for Ruby and is looking to play an important role in an amazing team and to grow your skills?
In simple terms, we’re looking for an expert Ruby Developer to join our growing team based in London.
Do you enjoy working in a flexible, agile environment, with core values of transparency and continuous improvement with the desire to contribute, learn and grow, working on a platform that will improve people’s lives?
About the role:
This business focuses on developing the best application for their customers and don’t cut costs – quality is essential to everything they do, working software that always works! Alongside a phenomenal team this business uses many contemporary tools such as AWS, GitHub, Circle CI, New Relic, to name a few. Their approach to code is simple, keep it clean and ensure it has good test coverage. They don’t ship code just to hit a deadline.
The Ruby Developer will work collaboratively with experienced developers who will review your code and you will review their code, everyone is treated equal in this company. This approach has helped them maintain at least 96% test coverage of their application (meaning they can focus on features rather than bug fixing)
What the Ruby Developer will do:
Develop new user facing features.
Engineer a better code base with your team.
Be part of an 8-10 person agile engineering team, part of a wider Engineering organisation
Work on tickets assigned to you, this includes writing code and specs (tests) and checking that new code passes other test coverage – plan to spend at least 50%, preferably 70% of your time writing code
Help evolve development standards and practices
Take architectural ownership of various critical components and systems
Review Pull Requests from other developers.
Work in a collaborative, agile team environment that is continuously improvement
Help mentor and coach members of the team
Lead a team of highly talented and collaborative engineers
Overall responsible for the technical quality of what the team is producing!
The Team:
This team is dynamic, exciting and diverse. They we look for people who are happy to operate in an ambiguous environment, people who bring ideas to the table but above all, people who deliver software. The business is moving forward at pace and they are upbeat and passionate about making things successful!
They also believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce, is the most awesome workforce. Over 80% of their Engineering team volunteered their time to be coaches as the recent Rails Girls event – a free workshop aimed at making technology more approachable for women.
They are excited by new ideas, different ways of thinking, diverse backgrounds and approaches. They run hackathons where in 24 hours anyone can build and present new ways of thinking to the senior management team! Test new technologies, try new ideas – the business is excited to get your ideas out to the world! Whats in your DNA?
Significant commercial experience with Ruby, working in a Ruby on rails environment (as a guide multiple projects over, with 5+ years of experience)
Deep understanding of object-orientated programming
Desire to work with Domain Driven Design
Love to work using TDD
Enjoy helping other Engineers improve and become better Engineers and humans
Understanding of relational database (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Understanding of web design patterns
Previous experience working in a company scaling up is useful, but not essential
Previous experience in leading a team is useful, but not essential
Most importantly, a desire to learn, grow, working with an amazing team and deliver software
