Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

• AWS
• CI/CD
• GCP
• Ruby on Rails

Competitive

WE REQUIRE

We’re looking for passionate mid-level Ruby on Rails Software Engineers who have a good understanding of the Rails framework and surrounding ecosystem, and have experience of developing products or platforms in production environments. The successful candidate will be helping us develop a number of our client’s software products and platforms.

You will be perfect for this role if you are keen to become an integral part of a product team, interact with clients and stakeholders, and work alongside a friendly, mixed-discipline team of designers, engineers, product managers etc, to architect scalable, performant and effective software products.

This role is perfect for you if the team is as important as the tech, you’re a genuinely bright and curious who recognises the craft of software engineering, and you like having an exposure to a range of different tech stacks in addition to your core RoR skillset.

YOUR OBJECTIVES

• Work as part of an agile team to deliver product-focused functionality in large-scale RoR SaaS products
• Make tactical decisions, in line with the long term vision of the clients and the business
• Collaborate, plan and implement cloud architecture and services
• Review code and strive to improve code quality
• Stay up to date with new technologies and solutions
• Mentor and upskill junior engineers

WHO ARE WE?

Yozu is a rapidly expanding team of over 40 technology experts that help businesses around the world to leverage the power of tech within their business. From consumer mobile apps through to enterprise-scale web services, we work closely with our clients to deliver products and platforms that help to transform their business, and we love developing innovative and intuitive solutions to complex problems.

Systems we actively develop and manage process millions of requests per day, handle £100s of millions in financial transactions per month, and are used by 10s of thousands of businesses around the world.

We take a mature approach to agile software development; we automate where possible, we’re agile where and when it matters, we work collaboratively with our clients, and we ship often and early.

Technologies, tools and platforms we utilise include: Rails 7, C#, Java, Springboot, ReactJS and React Native, CI/CD, JIRA, Google Cloud, AWS, Lambda, and so on!

IN RETURN

You will benefit from exposure to a broad range of projects and tech stacks, and will have the opportunity to see your work used in live production environments for some of the most forward-thinking and ambitious companies across multiple sectors in the UK and abroad.

You’ll improve on your existing skills as you benefit from working with other like-minded individuals who are keen to share their wealth of industry experience and knowledge with you.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• T-shaped engineer with commercial experience of the RoR framework
  • Or equivalent experience of frameworks like Django or Phoenix and are willing to learn a new tech stack
• Ideally a polyglot with experience of many languages and frameworks
• A passionate approach to work with a desire to push boundaries
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where we focus on delivering value while learning, growing, and experimenting
• Experience designing, building and maintaining large software systems
• Good understanding of CI/CD principles
• Ability to explain technical issues in a clear way to key stakeholders
• Good understanding of OO principles, software design patterns and anti-patterns
• Commercial experience with a major cloud provider such as AWS or GCP
• Good working knowledge of relational databases
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Enthusiastic and motivated personality
• Natural aptitude for all things tech
• Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to debug and diagnose in a sensible and methodical manner

BENEFITS

• Remote-first working, with optional access to award-winning office space
• 30 days holiday per year inc. bank holidays
  • An additional day per year worked up to a maximum of 38
• Private healthcare insurance
  • Access to private GP appointments, private referrals, physio, etc
• 5 paid sick days per year
• Employee share scheme
• Hardware allowance
• Proactive career progression
• Monthly social budget
• Free streaming subscription
• Regular paid team get togethers and catered lunches
• Monthly all hands (attend in person or remotely) and monthly optional in-person social
• Mental wellbeing support
• Paid training and conference opportunities
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
  • And a baby bonus
• Recruitment referral scheme
• Company-wide commission scheme