Full Stack Developer (Ruby, React)

Full Stack Software engineer

London Permanent

£60000.00 – £70000.00 per annum

This is a great opportunity to join one of the world’s leading marketplace for retail space, working with everyone from industry leading brands to exciting start-ups. You will be a key part of revolutionising their platform and bringing new features to life. You will be building an amazing user experience for clients globally as well as all the internal tools to help the rest of the team make it look easy. It is a great time to join and be part of their increasingly diverse team that focuses on finding creative solutions and, ultimately, empowering the global community.

What you will be doing:

• Helping architect and building solutions to business critical problems
• Participating in interesting projects such as Building tools and recommendation engines to help match brands to their perfect short-term retail space
• Creating a first-class communications platform for the concierge team to keep their brands happy as well as in-app chat between brands and landlords
• Providing continuous improvements in the way they collect and provide data for all teams to use when making decisions
• Improving the deployment pipeline to reduce the time taken to get code and configuration changes into production
• Providing necessary data and functionality to the frontend components, whether directly or through well-designed APIs
• Experimenting with new tools and technologies to produce cutting-edge solutions to business problems
• Be a part of a self-organising, OKR driven agile team using Kanban to ship new

productsTechnical skills/business skills required:

• Frontend development; especially React and modern Javascript (ES6)
• You’re passionate about writing good code and high-quality automated tests; we have no dedicated QA team, so it’s important for you to be able to test thoroughly
• Knowledge of good database design and query optimisation
• Strong skills in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Experience of AWS (or similar) services, such as EC2, RDS and RedShift; you’ll be exposed to these in this role, even if you have no previous Ops experience
• Algolia Search, Sendbird Chat, Datadog, Sidekiq, state machines, data warehousing and ETL processes
• Experience of managing applications on cloud environments (Kubernetes on EKS)
• Experience with different CI/CD tools and technologies

If this opportunity is of interest, please get in touch!

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