Senior Ruby on Rails Developer – Part-Time Contractor

Role Overview

• Maintaining and improving our Ruby on Rails application
• Designing and maintaining APIs used by our games
• Supporting authentication, login and SSO systems
• Improving test coverage, CI/CD and deployment processes
• Refactoring legacy systems and reducing technical debt
• Supporting production systems and investigating operational issues
• Contributing to data and analytics pipelines where needed

Requirements

• Strong experience with Ruby on Rails (production apps, not just side projects)
• Excellent, cross-discipline communicator, and able to work autonomously using strong Agile development practises
• Full-stack capability (backend + light frontend work, CSS, JS, databases)
• Confident working with production infrastructure (AWS, servers, environments, deployments), in high-traffic environments, including configuring and maintaining application environments
• API design and maintenance experience
• Experience working with CI/CD and automated testing
• Ability to refactor legacy systems safely
• Strong understanding of secure authentication systems
• Uses modern tooling pragmatically to speed up processes
• Data engineering
• ETL

Tech Stack

• AWS
• ETL
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails

Benefits

• flexible working style
• family friendly
• professional indemnity insurance required