Position: Lead Ruby on Rails Engineer
Company: Make it in UA
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

We are a young team of entrepreneurs and want to find a like-minded individual passionate about bringing an amazing digital product into this world and growing personally along the way.

What you will do:
Make all architectural decisions alongside the technical founder
Establish a clear and effective development workflow including task allocation, coding standards, reviews, staging environments, deployment
You will work alongside two developers, designer and the technical founder to execute on our roadmap
Code the most vital parts of the service (background services - scrapers, e-mails, search, data structures)

Must haves:
Passion for UKHired. You don’t need to know about the industry but we will expect you to have done your research and be genuinely excited about taking this product to the next stage of its development.
5+ years of RoR experience, 2+ years in a managerial/architectural role
Ability to think strategically about the codebase and build long-lasting solutions to immediate problems.
RoR top gems (Devise, Pundit, Searchkick, Nokogiri), Sidekiq, ElasticSearch, Heroku

Nice to have:
Experience creating stable scraping infrastructure
CI/CD and RSpec expertise
StimulusJS and willingness to learn Hotwire

Who you are:
Senior RoR developer with bags of pure coding experience. You know a bad codebase when you see it and find beauty in shipping elegant engineering solutions.
Future CTO looking for their big break. Feel like your growth is being stifled in a 40 person engineering team?
Product-oriented. Let out your inner creative and come build with us.

About the Company
At UKHired we are in a fight against bureaucracy and information silos that haunt the UK immigration system. We build world-class software to simplify the job-searching experience for people who need a UK visa. Our site compiles an up to date list of all visa sponsoring jobs in the UK and gives users best-in-class tools to search for jobs based on their visa status. 

Having built an MVP and received great user feedback, we are now looking to supercharge the next stage of product development and business growth 🚀

You will form a brand new founders-led team executing on a clear and exciting roadmap. By the end of the contract you will have taken part in building an early stage startup in a fun, supportive environment and learnt a ton along the way. All we want to do is ship great products 😎 The kind of things we will build together:

SaaS - tiered product functionality, billing, login etc
Best-in-class search experience and background services
Website redesign