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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.
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 your 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, analysing them, and proposing effective technical approaches and solutions.
- Have the opportunity to mentor more junior members as our team grows, sharing your 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.
- Hybrid working: Split your week between home and the office, with set in‑office days on Mondays and Wednesdays.
- Add 1 day holiday per year 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.
- £100 home office budget.
- Equity options – own a part of the business.
Company: The Electric Car Scheme
Location: London
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.
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 your 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, analysing them, and proposing effective technical approaches and solutions.
- Have the opportunity to mentor more junior members as our team grows, sharing your 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.
- Hybrid working: Split your week between home and the office, with set in‑office days on Mondays and Wednesdays.
- Add 1 day holiday per year 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.
- £100 home office budget.
- Equity options – own a part of the business.
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Posted: April 17th, 2026