Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Purpose of Role:

The purpose of this role is to maintain the existing capabilities and implement new and enhanced capabilities for the Vehicle Hub software as a service platform through close collaboration with the Engineering and Product teams. This includes the development of the full software stack, collaboration with and support of other colleagues, and contributing to the ongoing operations and maintenance of the platform to keep it secure, stable and supported.

As a Senior Software Engineer the individual will take ownership of entire problem spaces and continually seek to push the Vehicle Hub platform forwards, aligned to our strategic product goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Development - This role will directly contribute to our platform growth ambitions. This role will work alongside the other engineers in expanding the feature-set of the platform.

· Enhance, refactor and maintain our existing software as a service platform.

· Determine a suitable approach for an identified problem space.

· Ensure the solution meets the acceptance criteria outlined for that problem space.

· Implement effective test coverage for the solution to ensure it behaves as expected.

· Conduct code reviews for pull requests.

· Be accountable for the solutions you implement.

· Manage development tasks from initial assignment through to release.

· Assist with the grooming of the backlog and the continual refinement of issues.

Support - As a member of the Engineering Team this role will provide ongoing support to our clients and the wider company to preserve the value of the platform.

· Build and maintain a personal knowledge base of the system’s functionality, data sources, data structures.

· Act as a technical expert to support colleagues.

· Answer technical queries posed by our other teams.

· Provide day-to-day support to the Vehicle Hub Engineering Team through collaboration and to help resolve development blocks.

· Identify enhancement opportunities in the system; whether because of technical debt, poor data quality, a poor or inconsistent user experience or through advancements in technology.

Platform - This role will contribute to the ongoing operations and maintenance of the Vehicle Hub platform to keep it secure, stable and supported.

· Update our software dependencies as required, including language and framework upgrades.

· Identify when our test coverage is lacking and enhance as appropriate.

· Maintain, update and build our application containers.

· Deploy to our non-production and production environments through our deployment process.

· Build and maintain a personal knowledge base of our infrastructure and associated technologies.

· Monitor our infrastructure to ensure it remains available and performant.

· Provide support to resolve infrastructure issues.

Essentials Skills and Qualifications:

· Highly competent developing with Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework (likely 7+ years' experience).

· Proficient with the RSpec automated test framework.

· Proficient at Javascript (native and jQuery).

· Proficient at HTML, CSS & JavaScript preprocessors (HAML/SASS/SCSS).

· Experience of maintaining and operating a production Ruby on Rails SaaS application.

· Experience of working in a busy, multi-functional and collaborative development team.

· Experience of working in an agile development environment.

· Experience of planning and prioritising a variable workload and delivering to deadlines.

· Experience with using source code management, such as Git and GitHub, as part of a collaborative workflow.

· Experience with Application Performance Monitoring tools such as AppSignal and New Relic to identify and investigate issues.

· Experience in implementing scalable REST APIs using Ruby on Rails.

· Working in technology in a changing industry means an ability to learn quickly and maintain up-to-date knowledge is critical.

· With the role being primarily remote we need strong communicators, both written and verbal, with the ability to summarise and clearly convey information and advice.

· Working within a broader business requires the ability to deal with people professionally and courteously, even when you are busy.

· Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

These will be a plus:

· Experience with DevOps, including infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform

· Experience with cloud-based infrastructure, from deployment and monitoring through to provisioning resources.

· Experience with CI/CD approaches.

· Experience with containerised applications, from the Dockerfile through to deployment and orchestration.

· Experience with implementing and maintaining GitHub Actions for process automation

· Experience with database administration for PostgreSQL, including through the Active Record ORM and associated migrations.

· Experience with Hotwire designed frameworks such as Stimulus.

· Experience with ETL data integration processes.

· Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

· Experience in the automotive industry.