Posted 3 months ago
Software Developer/ Ruby on Rails / Remote Work
AI Summary
A software developer maintains and enhances a Ruby on Rails application, working both solo and paired to deliver scheduled upgrades, analyse systems, and implement new features.
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Software Developer/ Ruby on Rails / Remote Work
Software Developer/ Ruby/ Ruby on rails/ Ruby-on-rails/ Back End/ Ansible/ Javascript
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 environment is currently: Rails 5 / Cucumber / Rspec / Postgres / HTML / Javascript / API (Grape) / Bootstrap 3 + 4 /
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
Software Developer/ Ruby/ Ruby on rails/ Ruby-on-rails/ Ansible/ Back End Developer/ Javascript
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