Ruby Developer

New Route Recruitment Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Roof terrace

Showers

Bike storage

Free snacks and drinks

Programme of social events

Job summary

New Route Recruitment Limited in London is building a marketplace to help families find high quality, flexible childcare. As an engineer on the team, you’ll design and build tech to solve complex matching problems, giving families and nannies a solution that just works and speeding up nanny recruitment and training processes.

The stack includes Ruby on Rails for the backend, PostgreSQL and Redis, with ES6 frontend tooling and Tachyons.

Qualifications

• Experience with web application development.
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL.
• Ability to write readable, well-tested code.
• Willingness to pair program when appropriate and participate in code reviews.
• Comfort with a fast-moving startup culture and learning on the go.

Responsibilities

• Design and build tech to solve complex matching problems for families and nannies.
• Contribute to recruitment and training processes to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate with product and operations to deliver value quickly.
• Review and ship code via GitHub with CI checks.

Skills

Web development

SQL

Code quality

Pair programming

Code reviews

Tools

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

Redis

ES6

Tachyons

GitHub

CircleCI

Heroku

AWS

Job description

We are on a mission to improve childcare in London, making it easier and more affordable for families to access flexible and high quality childcare. We are backed by fantastic investors, including top VCs who’ve backed companies like Wonderbly, Thread and Appear. We won ‘Best Technology’ at the Business Women Awards 2017, and are currently shortlisted for several awards including Startups ‘Tech Business of the Year’.

About the Role

We’re building a marketplace that enables families to find and share high quality nannies. As an engineer on our team, you’ll be designing and building tech to make complex matching problems a breeze, to give families and nannies a solution that just works, and to supercharge our nanny recruitment and training processes.

Tech and Tooling

• You’ll be working in Ruby for most of the backend, with Rails, PostgreSQL and Redis making up most our core product.
• You’ll be using modern frontend tooling, with ES6 and Tachyons.
• When it comes to shipping code, you’ll be sending pull requests and doing code reviews in GitHub, and checking that CircleCI is happy before anything goes live.
• You’ll mostly be deploying to Heroku, with some heavy lifting on AWS.

That said, our priority is making sure we’re using the right tools for the job and we’re open to adding to or changing up our tech and tooling as appropriate.

About Our Product

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. 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. As an engineer on the team, you’ll work closely with product and operations to find and build creative solutions for business problems and make sure we’re delivering the most value to our customers.

About You

• You maybe a Junior, Mid Level or Senior developer, who thrives in small, fast-moving engineering teams.
• Familiarity with web application development
• Familiarity with relational databases and SQL
• You take pride in writing readable, well-designed and well-tested software
• You’re keen to pair program when appropriate, and generally enjoy a culture of code review
• You’re humble, you lap up feedback, and you want to learn
• You roll with it. You understand that start-ups are unpredictable environments, and are comfortable with a degree of chaos
• You own it. You take responsibility for your work from start to finish

Not essential, but nice to have:

• Experience with Ruby on Rails
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field

We work from an amazing private office space in central London. The office has a roof terrace, showers, bike storage, free snacks and drinks, and a programme of social events

• roof terrace
• showers
• bike storage
• free snacks and drinks
• programme of social events

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