Ruby on Rails Developer (junior)

at  Breathe

RUBY ON RAILS DEVELOPER (JUNIOR)

Located in vibrant Horsham, Breathe isn’t your typical SaaS business. Private equity owned, well-funded, with 14,500 customers and an average 6 years’ LTV (a rarity in the SaaS industry), Breathe is the number 1 HR Software for SMEs in the UK. But there is more to it – our work culture is award winning, with talented people that are committed to driving impact, while having fun together. We’re proud of our track record of success, but we’re even more excited about what the future holds for us.
We are looking for a Ruby on Rails Developer to join our growing R&D team.

WHY IS THIS ROLE IMPORTANT?

Working within the R & D team, you’ll be responsible for building, updating and maintaining all Breathe products and ensuring our products remain secure and available, using their knowledge of Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and CSS. You’ll ensure the Breathe technical infrastructure is designed and built in a way that is secure, modern, and cost effective by gaining and understanding of Amazon Web Services.
You’ll be excited to grow your knowledge and expertise at every opportunity, collaborate whenever advantageous, and strive to continually improve the processes and procedures they are involved with.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Building, updating and maintaining the Breathe family of products, at all times ensuring security of client data is their number one concern
• Continually searching for opportunities to improve the user experience of all Breathe products and suggest changes that benefit our customers’ experience and sense of value
• Adhere to all coding standards, testing requirements, processes and procedures within the technical team, and contribute to the continual improvement of these standards
• Collaborate within the technical team, and throughout the larger Breathe team, to ensure that tickets are fully understood from the perspective of the customer and the issue fully understood before work begins
• Assist in reviewing colleagues’ code in a manner that not only ensures the security of the products, but also raises the coding quality and assists with the personal growth of teammates
• Maintain an awareness of developing technologies and keep up to date with technology news and trends. To take ownership of their personal growth
• Support on ad-hoc team projects and initiatives that will help improve the R&D Team function
• Maintain awareness of and be compliant with information security protocols in relation to your job role and handling of any data

WHAT WE VALUE FOR THIS ROLE:

• Proven commercial experience working with Ruby and Rails
• Experience in working with JavaScript and good understanding of CSS
• Ability to quickly assess and absorb new technologies
• Ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical people
• Ability to question vaguely described tickets and tease out requirements
• Maintain a calm and methodical approach to problems
• Possess an analytical mind, with an ability to zoom in on micro-details whilst seeing the bigger picture
• Project management skills allowing complex tasks to be broken into manageable chunks
• Understanding of React (nice to have but not essential)