COMPANY AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Our business partner is a market-leading, fast-growing, profitable, software-as-a-service (SaaS) business in the property market, and they are looking to grow significantly over the next two to three years. They build estate agency websites and develop software to help Estate Agents to perform better online.
The company`s services are used by more than 500 UK Estate and Lettings Agents, from small independent offices to national corporate chains.
They are a lovely team of people with a great company culture – ambitious, hard-working, and collaborative yet respectful of work-life balance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Developing new features and expanding existing functionality;
- Fixing back-end bugs;
- Adding test coverage to legacy applications;
- Devising technical strategy and best practices with senior staff in the development team;
- Improving continuous integration/delivery pipelines;
- Contributing to team-building during stand-ups and retros;
- Furthering knowledge and understanding of relevant technologies;
- Improving legacy code using tools like Rubocop.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with backend development;
- Proficiency with Ruby / Ruby on Rails;
- Experience with test-driven/behavior-driven development, particularly RSpec;
- Proficiency with both document and relational database systems (particularly MySQL, PostgreSQL);
- Proven ability to write readable code and efficient, scalable software.
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience with static code analysis tools such as Rubocop, and Brakeman would be a plus.
SOFT SKILLS:
- Excellent communication and leadership skills;
- Ability to proactively find solutions to a problem;
- Proactive and initiative-driven mindset;
- Ability to analyze and make decisions independently;
- Creativity and innovative thinking in finding solutions;
- Attention to detail.
ENGLISH LEVEL:
Upper-Intermediate/Advanced. The candidate should be able to communicate and deliver his ideas.
WORK SCHEDULE AND TIMEZONE:
Flexible 8hr/day Mon – Fri EEST Time Zone. Minimum 4 hours overlap with the UK time.
