Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Web Application Developer with 5+ years of experience in building and maintaining scalable, high-quality applications to join our growing tech team. As a senior member, you’ll play a key role in driving technical decisions, mentoring teammates, and ensuring best practices across the development lifecycle.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop, evolve, and maintain our core web application using Ruby, Rails, React, and TypeScript.
- Collaborate closely with product managers and other stakeholders to deeply understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
- Contribute actively to our technology roadmap and priorities, working alongside team members, key stakeholders, and leadership.
- Build a highly automated and reliable platform that serves both our external customers and internal teams.
- Take on ambiguous or loosely defined problems, analyse them, and propose effective technical approaches and solutions.
- Mentor more junior members as the team grows, sharing knowledge and fostering a collaborative environment.
- Drive technical discussions and decisions within the team, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and align with long‑term strategic goals.
- Champion best practices in areas like system design, performance, security, and operational excellence.
About You
- 5+ years of professional experience building web applications using Ruby, Rails, React, and TypeScript.
- Strong backend development skills with a willingness to contribute across the full stack.
- Proactive and self‑driven, able to take ownership of tasks from conception to deployment.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, understandable language for non‑technical colleagues.
- Experience with various testing methodologies (e.g., unit, integration, end‑to‑end) and a commitment to writing well‑tested code.
- A commitment to robust and reliable software delivery, including familiarity with practices like no‑downtime deployments, proactive monitoring, and identifying potential risks.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives from concept to completion, often involving multiple team members or complex integrations.
- Well versed in production operations, incident response, and performance optimisation. You proactively identify and mitigate risks to ensure system stability and scalability.
Benefits
- Hybrid working: split your week between home and the office, with set in‑office days on Mondays and Wednesdays.
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Add 1 day holiday per year of service + buy / sell up to 5 days each year.
- Flexible work policy with options to take into account family care.
- Best‑in‑class family friendly leave and pay.
- Use our own scheme to lease a vehicle through salary sacrifice and save 40‑70% to drive a brand new electric car.
- £500 per annum personal development budget.
- £100 home office budget.
- Bupa healthcare.
- Equity options – own a part of the business.
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