Who we’re looking for
Zivio is a rapidly growing and highly ambitious Procure-tech startup. We are looking for a Mid-Level Ruby Engineer who will be responsible for working on our award-winning Rails application. You’ll be spending most of your time coding and working in close liaison with our small team of developers to design and develop new features for our clients and support our existing client needs.
We operate in a highly agile environment with multiple product releases each week so this position gives you the chance to hit the ground running and start making an impact from day one. You will also have the opportunity to build on your skills by learning about and working with the many languages and technologies we use.
We're a start-up so life is always busy and never boring, and we need someone with drive and initiative to provide a meaningful contribution to the team as we scale up our business and continue to develop the product for our customers in the UK and overseas.
Responsibilities
- Develop features and improvements to the Zivio product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Analyze and interpret highly complex data to arrive at actionable recommendations
- Collaborate with Technology Leadership and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
- Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
- Confidently ship small to medium sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
- Participate in Customer Support to solve customer issues in a timely manner and assist teammates in troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails, working on production code
- University degree in Computer Science or related subject or certified developer training course.
- Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
- Happy to work remotely as part of a small team
- Communicates clearly, in a friendly way
- Knack for writing clean, readable code
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Based in the UK within 2 hours travel time of Brighton. We get together monthly as a company and attending these meetings is mandatory.
Nice to haves
- Experience with AWS services, particularly S3 & ECS
- Experience with Git and continuous integration tools
- Experience with Heroku
Tech Stack
- Ruby on Rails 8
- Ruby 3.4+
- Stimulus/Javascript
- OpenAI/Claude LLMs
- Docker
- Terraform
- AWS
- Heroku
- Elasticsearch
Day to day activities
- Carry out development tasks as part of 6-week development cycle
- Plan and architect solutions to medium to large scale product enhancements
- Answer support queries from clients and internal colleagues
- Perform code reviews of your peer’s work
- Participate in design discussions for new features and system improvements
Salary & Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Company pension scheme.
- Vibrant and friendly team culture with regular socials.
- 35 days holiday per year inclusive of bank holidays.
- Family-friendly work environment.
- £750 annual Learning and Development budget.
- Latest laptop provided.
- Paid tickets and time off to attend the Brighton Ruby conference every year
- Support for going green with Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice and Cycle to Work schemes.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all applications. If you need any adjustments to support your application, please let us know.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From £50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Application question(s):
- Are you located within 2 hours travel of Brighton? It is mandatory to attend once a month whole company events in Brighton.
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Brighton BN1 1YR
