Lead Developer (Ruby/Rails)  | Fin-tech | London x 2 days per week | £95,000

Our client is a fantastic quickly expanding fintech that provides businesses with the opportunity to supercharge their growth by offering a fair, fast and easy way to apply for investment.

Among others, we are looking for a Lead Developer with expert Ruby/Rails skills, this is an opportunity to really drive a product forward. Right now you are at the bottom of the mountain and you’ll get to influence and plan the journey to the top.

The techy bits

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails,
• PostgreSQL,
• Heroku,
• AWS & GCP,
• Kafka
• Good design using best practices
• Auto-deploy to production on merging, many times a day

We are seeking ambitious people to join us in championing our smart, tailored, data-driven funding solution and become an integral part of our early-stage plans.

As a Lead Developer within our small but brilliant agile tech team, you will:

• Be integral in helping us to build a new way of lending
• Create a product able to handle millions of pounds and thousands of transactions a minute!
• Take full ownership of features from start to finish
• Getting stuck in with all stages from design and build, to test and release.
• Be a product-focused problem solver, passionate, proactive, and well-experienced with setting the standards for writing stunningly clean code in Ruby.

Day top day role responsibilities include:

• Writing fully tested code, in clean, scalable solutions
• Owning features from start to finish; design, build, test and release to production
• Prototyping ideas to quickly assess the viability
• Communicating progress or any issues or roadblocks back to the team Iterating based on feedback
• Proactively fixing errors and consistently improving the codebase
• Working closely with the product team to ship ideas
• Tracking tasks via Jira

Our dream candidate will be a Ruby/Rails expert, an excellent communicator who enjoys problem-solving and big picture thinking!

If this sounds like you and you like the idea of joining a young business where getting your hands dirty, contributing to the overall development of the business and having a huge impact then you should get in touch today!

Hello@grittt.com | 01491 765400 | twitter.com/TheRubyRec