Position: Junior Ruby Engineer
Company: N-iX
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 1y
English level: upper

You’re a team player, who works collaboratively to achieve the shared goals. You are unafraid to challenge aspects outside your direct remit and passionately champion ‘the right thing’. You will believe in continuous delivery, continuous integration, instrumentation and telemetry and the benefits that they bring. You have experience working with teams at different levels of maturity getting the benefits from these methods while understanding that context is everything.
 
You’ll feel comfortable working in a collaborative atmospehere, at ease debating delivery priorities with our Architecture team and Product Managers. You are experienced in software engineering, but don’t over engineer or build for a re-use that never happens.
 
You understand that real change happens by continual improvement of our practices and principles.
 
As a key member of a small, fast-moving company, you will be empowered to use your creativity to have impact, getting involved at all levels of the product life cycle. We're constantly evolving our product, building key features and setting the direction that will affect the business for years to come. You would be a central part of moving our software stack forward at every level, working in and nurture a team of capable and friendly developers who love building great software.

**Client:**
UK-based rapidly growing online grocer with a focus on food sourced from local farmers, fishermen and other producers. The company now provides farm-to-table foods and fresh fish for consumers in the London area, along with ethically-sourced baby & kids, household and deli products.

**Requirements:**
• A thirst for knowledge and mastery continuously improving your skills and keeping abreast of the latest technologies and techniques
• A great understanding of Kanban, Scrum, XP, Lean and other methods
• Extensive knowledge and experience of software engineering practices such as Continuous Delivery, BDD, Pair Programming, instrumentation and telemetry
• Experience in web and server-side development using Ruby and its ecosystem
• Contributions to open source projects is a plus
• A willingness to experiment with, and drive the adoption of new technology and approaches that might help us
• A willingness to take responsibility (currently everyone deploys to production, everyone fixes urgent bugs)
• An ability to teach, and learn from others and to work collaboratively.
• An ability to work with non-technical staff to understand and refine complex requirements
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English

**We offer:**
• Flexible working hours
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Best hardware
• A masseur and a corporate doctor
• Healthcare & sport benefits
• An inspiring and comfy office

**Professional growth:**
• Challenging tasks and innovative projects
• Meetups and events for professional development
• An individual development plan
• Mentorship program

**Fun:**
• Corporate events and outstanding parties
• Exciting team buildings
• Memorable anniversary presents
• A fun zone where you can play video games, foosball, ping pong, and more