Remote Regular/Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer
@ NordHR

Our new Client has been in Education Technology since 2002, building systems to keep children and young people safe and make them successful. They do this by working closely with educators around the world. They’re now expanding a remote engineering team, currently based in the UK, to work with the best talent from around Europe.

Role The successful candidate will take responsibility for working as a software engineer - primarily focused on backend services and data - within an agile team to develop the company’s web-based applications in Ruby.

The web platform is built exclusively in Ruby on Rails with interlinking native device clients, communicating through standard web protocols. They focus on student wellbeing, classroom management, and network and device administration.

This role is to work alongside our existing Ruby team as part of a new data strategy team: you’ll focus on working with third-party APIs to import data from lots of different systems into our data lake, and then analysing it to find the best ways to improve children’s wellbeing on a global scale.

Responsibilities Operational:

• Work within a cross-functional software team to develop software using Ruby and related technologies (generally Rails, with some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
• Take responsibility for the quality and speed of your own work.
• Perform automated and manual testing on your own work.
• Assist other members of the engineering team where required.

What is expected

Essentials

At least 3 years of commercial experience (or equivalent) with:

• Web application development spanning multiple projects.
• Ruby on Rails.
• Working with relational databases (ideally MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• Using distributed source control management.
• Writing automated tests.
• Experience in using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience of working in a distributed workforce in an agile development team.
• Understanding of programming, networking and information security principles.
• Enthusiasm for understanding technical ideas and explaining them clearly to other members of the team.
• A strong standard of spoken and written English.

Desirable

• Experience in writing tests using RSpec and Cucumber.
• Experience with data analysis.

What is offered:

• Possibility to become a part of professional team and building a fantastic application.
• Remote possibility with an option to travelling.
• Attractive salary based of experience (B2B- 12- 18 000 PLN net)

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