Senior Ruby Engineer

You will be working as part of the Engineering team here at Simply Business, which will be paramount towards our customer journey as well as working on new initiative programmes. 

Our Tech Stack includes: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Kafka, Terraform, JavaScript, SCSS, React, and Webpack.

As one of our Senior Software Engineers you’ll:

• be hands-on in developing our products using best practices, appropriate tools and technologies

• work with cross functional collaborative teams, helping to clarify requirements at the onset of projects and suggesting different and relevant technical approaches

• champion Agile processes across the team

• highlight areas for continuous improvement and driving their prioritisation

• mentor junior members of the team where needed

• be proactive in suggesting new tools, technologies and ways of working

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Strong programming skills in any language. We look for strong Engineers and our philosophy is that a strong Engineer is not defined by the technologies they use; therefore Ruby experience is not essential. You’ll just need to be happy to cross-over to Ruby if you join us – and we will support you with that

• Strong desire to work collaboratively with business teams. We do not divide ‘business’ and ‘tech’ teams, we see both as one team as we are all working towards one shared goal

• Strong interpersonal skills to work well in our very open and friendly environment

• Proactive in suggesting new tools, processes and technologies – anything which will help us continually improve!

• The ability to communicate technical concepts to non technical members of the team

• Ability to own small sub projects from ideation to delivery into our customers hands.