Senior Software Engineer, Ruby

Ascent; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading compliance technology firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Ruby to help build innovative products that enhance regulatory compliance. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience with API-driven applications and a strong grasp of SQL. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop world-class applications and tools to manage complex data. In addition to competitive compensation, benefit options include comprehensive health insurance and flexible PTO.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K

Flexible PTO

Charitable matching gift program

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering API-driven Ruby on Rails applications.
• Strong understanding of SQL and experience with efficient queries.
• Commitment to thorough tests and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to end-to-end product solutions for regulatory data.
• Collaborate closely with Product organization for application development.
• Create tools that empower management of complex data.

Skills

API-driven Ruby on Rails applications

SQL queries and views

Testing and documentation

Empathy and communication

Scalable distributed applications

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Amazon Web Services

Graph Databases like Neo4j

Python programming

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Ruby

Reports To: Director of Engineering

Who You Are

The Senior Software Engineer will join our team of technologists that are committed to building excellent software solutions for customers. You will thrive at Ascent if you love building delightful products with wonderful people, enjoy learning and teaching others, and value autonomy.

Who We Are

Ascent is the industry's leading compliance automation solution. We’re propelling the world of regulatory compliance forward by offering greater efficiencies, cost savings, and accuracy. With extensive experience applying machine learning to regulatory data, we help customers in financial services automate their compliance programs, significantly reducing their risk while saving time and money. We prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion and believe strongly that a team with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives produces better results. We understand that having strong and empathetic professional support from management is critical for professional growth and cultivating happy teams. Together, we are solving a $64 billion global problem in regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

You will contribute to our end-to-end product solution, spanning systems that extract metadata from regulatory documents, orchestrate complex data transformations, model regulatory data in a graph database, and deliver that data to our customers via UIs and APIs.

You will:

• Collaborate closely with our Product organization to build world-class applications for our customers
• Use creativity and independent thinking to solve challenging problems around data scale and service-oriented design
• Work with our internal domain experts to create tools and automation that empower them to manage complex, ever-changing data
• Help us advance our engineering best practices as we build extensible softwareWork closely with teammates to help them level up as engineers

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years delivering API-driven Ruby on Rails applications
• Strong understanding of SQL and experience writing efficient queries and views
• Commitment to thorough tests and documentation for maintainable code-bases
• Empathy for and ability to listen to our internal customers and respond to their needs
• Experience with scalable distributed applications and service-oriented architectures
• Bonus points for experience with:
  • Python programming language
  • Web crawling and/or scraping
  • Graph Databases like Neo4j
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Amazon Web Services

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; premiums paid 95% for the individual
• Medical premiums paid at 95% for all covered dependents under our Choice tier
• Medical HSA/FSAs
• Life insurance
• 401K
• Disability benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Flexible PTO
• Charitable matching gift program
• The opportunity to work with smart people on challenging problems!