Software Developer / Ruby on Rails

International Business Solutions Consult; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy is seeking a Software Developer specializing in Ruby on Rails. The role involves significant development upgrades with a mix of remote work and occasional office-based collaboration in Portsmouth. You will work in a Technical Delivery team, developing new features and ensuring system improvements. Candidates should have strong technical skills, teamwork capabilities, and effective communication skills to meet internal client needs. Contract duration is 12 months and salary is dependent on experience.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar role.
• Ability to deep dive into the code.
• Strong communication skills to refine requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the Technical Delivery team.
• Architect and implement new features.
• Provide test coverage judgements.

Skills

Strong technical capabilities

Fault finding and rectification

Team collaboration

Strong communication skills

Creative problem-solving

Tools

Ubuntu

Ansible

Apache

Nginx

Postfix

Postgresql

Job description

Software Developer/ Ruby on Rails / Remote Work

Reporting to: Development Team Lead

Location: Office based in Portsmouth, Remote Work (3-4 days onsite a month)

Role breakdown

We have a clear programme of significant development upgrades over the next 12 months. You will work both paired and solo to deliver these upgrades according to an agreed schedule.

System analysis and recommendations:

As part of your role, you should make time to take a step back and review how the system is built and hosted and how well it is performing against the desired outputs required from it. Recommendations for improvements are always welcome.

Responsibilities

• Working as part of the Technical Delivery team
• Being immersed in the code base and how the system is used to ensure a full understanding of the entire infrastructure and functionality
• Our system has good test coverage, though not 100%. You (as a team) will use your judgement to decide when you should provide test coverage and when it is ok not to
• To continuously improve the application through regular and effective support and maintenance
• Architect and implement (working both paired and solo) new features on the application. Some of these projects could last a few days, others will last several months
• Applying your development skills to a variety of different technologies – some of which may be new to you, some of which may be new to other team members
• To ensure that processes for developing, testing and deploying new functionality are consistently followed

Technical requirements

The server environment is: Ubuntu / Ansible / Apache / Nginx / Postfix (email) / Postgresql

What sort of person are we looking for?

• Strong technical capabilities with proven experience in a similar role.
• An ability to deep dive into the code to fault find and rectify
• An ability to work alone as well as part of a team
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with internal clients to refine requirements
• A creativity for using technology to solve challenges in a people business
• A desire to provide ever increasing value from the system that you are working on

Package

Salary: dependent on experience

Contract: 12 Months