Description
Lead Ruby Developer/Software Engineer - Digital Innovation Studio - 6 months - Central London - £ p/d
Futureheads are working with the digital innovation arm of a global strategy consultancy who focus on helping high profile clients conceive and build new digital businesses.
They apply a lean, agile, start-up mentality and work with companies to build out impactful new digital models, services, and products from scratch. They build businesses from end to end, conducting research, innovation sprints, proposition development and rapid prototyping, before pitching business strategies and engineering all necessary digital technology platforms to bring the services to life.
Having secured the responsibility of making these digital businesses happen, they then facilitate the launch of every aspect that a successful digital business needs to scale.
They are currently looking for a Lead Ruby Developer to help deliver a new greenfield project for an enterprise company. As a senior technologist, you will be actively involved in managing stakeholders, whilst designing and developing complex new platforms across web and mobile.
To be considered for this position, you should be able to demonstrate the following behaviours and experience:
- Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails
- Good knowledge of JavaScript
- Exposure to modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular)
- Strong appreciation of new technologies including open source and cloud - AWS, Docker, Microservices etc
- Champion of Agile practises including Lean, TDD and BDD
- Agnostic about technology and tools - use the right tool for the right job
- Experience working across web and mobile based applications
- The ability to help own large programs of work with a complex global client
- Strong communication skills and previous experience working in a complex client-facing environment
- Excellent problem solver
All candidates must be available to start on either the 3rd, 10th or 24th April.