Senior Software Engineer - Platform Operations

Butternut Box; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pet food company in the UK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their platform operations team. The ideal candidate will have significant backend development experience, especially in Ruby on Rails, and a passion for contributing to innovative solutions that improve the lives of customers and their dogs. This role offers flexible working conditions and a variety of exciting perks.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

5 paid 'paws' days per year

£500 personal development budget

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working hours

Private Medical Insurance

Discounted gym access

Lots of office dogs

Qualifications

• Experience in a senior backend engineering position with Ruby on Rails.
• Ability to work across the stack, though more backend-focused.
• Willingness to collaborate and learn through pair programming and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and development within the team.
• Deliver quality, maintainable code across the stack.
• Champion best practices in code, architecture & processes.

Skills

Significant commercial experience in backend engineering

Experience with Ruby on Rails

Interest in coaching others

Passion for startups

Obsessed with dogs

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Heroku

AWS

Terraform

Github Actions

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Operations

UK & Ireland

#LI-Hybrid

📣A bit about the role.

As part of a Platform Engineering team, you will work closely with engineers, product managers, designers and stakeholders to help solve our customers' problems and directly impact their (and their dog's) daily lives. As a Senior Engineer in this team, you'll be the driving force in a number of key app and web development projects that play a huge part in the growth of Butternut.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Contribute to the architecture and development direction of the team to ensure quality code is written and excellent products are built.
• Work across the stack to deliver quality, maintainable code. This role is more backend weighted but you will be expected to work across the stack at times.
• Collaborate and learn with other team members via pair programming, mentoring, code reviews, and technical talks.
• Learn about and champion best practices in code, architecture & processes.

You'll get to use a lot of exciting technology here at Butternut including:

• Ruby on Rails
• Heroku
• AWS
• Terraform
• Github Actions for CI/CD
• Work closely with PM's, designers and other engineers to build features and products to delight our customers and make their dogs' lives better.
• Work across the stack which includes React Native (mobile), React and Ruby on Rails.
• Ensure the systems we build are modular, scalable and reliable.

👋 A bit about you.

• Significant commercial experience in a similar senior backend engineering position, on a Ruby on Rails or equivalent app.
• An interest in developing your skills and coaching others around you.
• A true motivation to ship customer-facing products that have a direct impact on commercials.
• Passion for startups.
• Obsessed with dogs!

🐶A bit about us.

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions. #LI-Hybrid

As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co‑founders (Kev & Dave) hand‑delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us.

🙌 A bit about what we offer.

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
• 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing
• £500 personal learning & development budget
• Butternut Box employee discount
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Co‑working office space.
• Flexible working hours and work from home options
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through My Gym Discounts
• Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more….)

❗️A few things to note:

• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmentalperformance.
• We're not afraid of putting extra weight on candidates from underrepresented groups. We want strong, diverse teams built from different backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We're ready for the ongoing work that goes into building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.