Full Stack Engineer Ruby on Rails

MarkIT Placements; City; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in London is seeking an experienced Full Stack Engineer with a strong background in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and have a knack for building innovative software solutions. Responsibilities include enhancing product features and using technologies like PostgreSQL, Redis, and modern front-end frameworks. Competitive salary with generous share options and perks in a vibrant workspace near Old St, London.

Benefits

Gym and showers

Bike storage

Free snacks and drinks

Social events

Qualifications

• Experience in small, fast-moving engineering teams.
• Humble, open to feedback, able to handle chaos.

Responsibilities

• Continuously improve product and build key features.
• Run short development cycles to test assumptions.
• Collaborate with the business to maximize customer value.

Skills

Ruby development expertise

Experience with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis

Front-end development using ES6, React and Tachyons

GitHub code review experience and familiarity with CircleCI

Experience deploying to Heroku and AWS

Comfortable working in a startup environment

Eager to learn and teach

Education

Computer science related degree

Job description

My client, based in London, is looking for a Full Stack Engineer (RoR) For full details, please apply!

About the role

We’re continuously improving our product, building key features that will move the needle in a big way. Instead of an endless product roadmap, we run short development cycles to test assumptions and make smart decisions quickly. This isn’t a sprint and there’s no project managers, we work closely with the rest of the business to make sure we deliver the most value to our customers.

Our stack uses Ruby for most of the backend, with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis making up the majority of our core product. We use modern front end tooling, with ES6, React and Tachyons.

When it comes to shipping code, we love GitHub code reviews and making CircleCI happy before anything gets into production. We mostly deploy to Heroku, with some heavy lifting on AWS. We favour feature flags over staging environments and deploy to production as often as we need to; deployment cycles shouldn’t get in the way of delivering value.

About you

We’re looking for an experienced Ruby developer who thrives in small, fast-moving engineering teams.

Essential skills

• Ruby development expertise
• Experience with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis
• Front‑end development using ES6, React and Tachyons
• GitHub code review experience and familiarity with CircleCI
• Experience deploying to Heroku and AWS
• Comfortable working in a startup environment with rapid iteration
• Humble, open to feedback, eager to learn and teach, able to handle a degree of chaos

Nice to have

• Test‑driven development practices
• Experience with relational databases at scale and schema design for query performance
• Computer science related degree

Competitive salary dependent on experience plus generous share options. We work from a beautiful co‑working space near Old St in central London. The office has a gym and showers, bike storage, free snacks and drinks, and a programme of social events.