Description
Senior Ruby Developer
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Contract Senior Software Developer/Ruby on Rails Developer to join a growing business in developing a number of exciting, commercially available products in an environment promoting internal progression and product innovation.
You will be joining an established development team who believe in product innovation and utilising new technologies to benefit their product development. The programming responsibility will initially focus on Ruby, Ruby on Rails; however experience with other languages will be beneficial as the company and products continue to evolve.
The development team is currently going through a period of consistent growth, and this is expected to continue with big plans over the following months.
The company are proud of their culture and actively encourage input from all levels within the development team. So suggestions to improve development processes, product features, beneficial advances in new technology etc, will be encouraged. The company want to offer all employees contract or permanent the opportunity to make a difference so if you currently work in a big team and feel overlooked, or want to grow your technical skill set, this is a great opportunity.
Key experience required;
- Commercial development with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, 5years +
- Experience with Linux and Windows platforms
- Experience of Greenfield projects working the full development life cycle
- Agile/SCRUM best practice, including TDD, BDD
- Database experience with MySQL, MongoDB or similar
- Excellent communicator, happy liaising with all levels of the business
- A Software Engineering background is an advantage, a 'generalist' with a passion for Ruby development
- JavaScript; NodeJS or similar experience is an advantage
The best candidates should have most of the following skills
- Ruby on Rails
- MySQL
- JavaScript (ES5)
- Angular 1
- Elastic Search
- Open Stack
- RSpec
- Puppet
- HTML/CSS
While no particular industry experience is necessary the following would be of interest:
- Video capture/processing/playback
- Private/hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Salesforce.com or similar CRM
- SAP Business One or similar system
- Federated auth
- Market Research
Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Please note that any references to salary or pay rates in this advertisement and in the salary refinement section are indicative only and should only be used as a guide.