About the job
Ruby Developer
About Us
At New Route Recruitment Limited, we are dedicated to transforming the childcare landscape in London. Our mission is to provide families with easier and more affordable access to flexible and high-quality childcare solutions. With the backing of renowned investors, including prominent VCs who have supported successful companies like Wonderbly, Thread, and Appear, we are proud to have been awarded ‘Best Technology’ at the Business Women Awards in 2017 and are currently shortlisted for several prestigious awards, including Startups ‘Tech Business of the Year’.
Role Overview
Join our innovative team as we develop a marketplace that connects families with exceptional nannies. As a Ruby Developer, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing technology that simplifies complex matching processes, ensuring that both families and nannies receive seamless solutions. Your contributions will also enhance our recruitment and training initiatives for nannies.
Technical Environment
In this position, you will primarily work with Ruby on the backend, utilizing frameworks and technologies such as Rails, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Our frontend development employs modern tools, including ES6 and Tachyons. You will engage with GitHub for pull requests and code reviews, ensuring that our CI/CD pipeline with CircleCI is well-maintained before deployment. Most of our deployments occur on Heroku, with some operations on AWS. We prioritize using the most suitable tools for our tasks and are open to adapting our tech stack as necessary.
Product Development
Our product is continuously evolving as we build impactful features that drive significant improvements. Instead of following a lengthy product roadmap, we adopt short development cycles to validate assumptions and make informed decisions quickly. We prefer using feature flags over staging environments, deploying code to production frequently to optimize value delivery. As part of our engineering team, you will collaborate closely with product and operations teams to identify and develop innovative solutions for business challenges, ensuring maximum value for our customers.
Candidate Profile
We welcome applications from Junior, Mid-Level, or Senior developers who thrive in dynamic, fast-paced engineering environments.
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