Software Engineer (Web)

The successful candidate will take responsibility for working as a software engineer – primarily focused on backend services and feature delivery – within an agile team to develop the company’s web-based applications in Ruby. 

Role Responsibilities –

Operational 

• Work within a cross-functional software team to develop software using Ruby and related technologies (generally Rails, with some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). 
• Take responsibility for the quality and speed of your own work. 
• Perform automated and manual testing on your own work. 
• Assist other members of the engineering team where required. 

Required skills/experience/qualifications:

Characteristics –  

• Experience of working in a distributed workforce in an agile development team.
• At least 2 years of commercial experience (or equivalent) in web application development spanning multiple projects.
• At least 2 years of experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience in using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• At least 2 years of experience of working with relational databases (ideally MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• At least 2 years of experience of using distributed source control management.
• At least 2 years of experience in writing automated tests.
• Understanding of programming, networking and information security principles.
• Enthusiasm for understanding technical ideas and explaining them clearly to other members of the team.
• A strong standard of spoken and written English.

Desirable 

• Experience in writing tests using RSpec and Cucumber.
• Experience with data analysis.

This role is on a Full Time Permanent Basis 

This is a remote working role. 

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