Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Keyloop UK Ltd; Reading; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive technology firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer to enhance their Vehicle Hub platform. You will work collaboratively with product teams to develop and maintain a robust software service. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in Ruby on Rails and a solid understanding of agile development practices. This role offers significant opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Ruby on Rails development.
• Proficient with the RSpec automated test framework.
• Experience in an agile development environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to platform growth by expanding feature sets.
• Maintain and improve the software as a service platform.
• Provide ongoing support and enhance platform efficiency.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

RSpec

JavaScript (native and jQuery)

HTML, CSS & preprocessors (HAML/SASS/SCSS)

Production SaaS application maintenance

Agile development

Git and GitHub

REST APIs

Application Performance Monitoring tools

Strong communication skills

Tools

Docker

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Job description

Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer role at Keyloop.

Keyloop bridges the gap between dealers, manufacturers, technology suppliers and car buyers. We empower car dealers and manufacturers to fully embrace digital transformation by creating innovative technology that makes selling cars better for our customers, and buying and owning cars better for theirs. We use cutting-edge technology to link our clients’ systems, departments and sites. We provide an open technology platform that’s shaping the industry for the future. We use data to help clients become more efficient, increase profitability and give more customers an amazing experience.

Purpose of Role

The purpose of this role is to maintain the existing capabilities and implement new and enhanced capabilities for the Vehicle Hub software as a service platform through close collaboration with the Engineering and Product teams. This includes the development of the full software stack, collaboration with and support of other colleagues, and contributing to the ongoing operations and maintenance of the platform to keep it secure, stable and supported. As a Senior Software Engineer the individual will take ownership of entire problem spaces and continually seek to push the Vehicle Hub platform forwards, aligned to our strategic product goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Development - This role will directly contribute to our platform growth ambitions. This role will work alongside the other engineers in expanding the feature-set of the platform
• Enhance, refactor and maintain our existing software as a service platform
• Determine a suitable approach for an identified problem space
• Ensure the solution meets the acceptance criteria outlined for that problem space
• Implement effective test coverage for the solution to ensure it behaves as expected
• Conduct code reviews for pull requests
• Be accountable for the solutions you implement
• Manage development tasks from initial assignment through to release
• Assist with the grooming of the backlog and the continual refinement of issues
• Support - Provide ongoing support to our clients and the wider company to preserve the value of the platform
• Build and maintain a personal knowledge base of the system’s functionality, data sources, data structures
• Act as a technical expert to support colleagues
• Answer technical queries posed by our other teams
• Provide day-to-day support to the Vehicle Hub Engineering Team through collaboration and to help resolve development blocks
• Identify enhancement opportunities in the system
• Platform - Contribute to the ongoing operations and maintenance of the Vehicle Hub platform to keep it secure, stable and supported
• Update our software dependencies as required, including language and framework upgrades
• Identify when our test coverage is lacking and enhance as appropriate
• Maintain, update and build our application containers
• Deploy to non-production and production environments through the deployment process
• Monitor our infrastructure to ensure it remains available and performant
• Provide support to resolve infrastructure issues

Essentials Skills and Qualifications

• Highly competent developing with Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework (likely 7+ years' experience)
• Proficient with the RSpec automated test framework
• Proficient at Javascript (native and jQuery)
• Proficient at HTML, CSS & JavaScript preprocessors (HAML/SASS/SCSS)
• Experience of maintaining and operating a production Ruby on Rails SaaS application
• Experience of working in a busy, multi-functional and collaborative development team
• Experience of working in an agile development environment
• Experience of planning and prioritising a variable workload and delivering to deadlines
• Experience with using source code management, such as Git and GitHub, as part of a collaborative workflow
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring tools such as AppSignal and New Relic
• Experience in implementing scalable REST APIs using Ruby on Rails
• Ability to learn quickly and maintain up-to-date knowledge in a changing technology landscape
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to summarise and clearly convey information
• Professional and courteous interaction with colleagues
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

These will be a plus

• Experience with DevOps, including infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure, deployment and provisioning
• Experience with CI/CD approaches
• Experience with containerised applications, including Docker and orchestration
• Experience with GitHub Actions for automation
• Experience with PostgreSQL database administration via Active Record and migrations
• Experience with Hotwire frameworks such as Stimulus
• Experience with ETL data integration processes
• Experience within SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Experience in the automotive industry

Why join us?

We’re on a journey to become market leaders in our space. Collaborate and learn from industry experts from around the globe. Work with game-changing products and services. We provide training and support to try new things and explore different paths. Join Keyloop and progress your career, your way.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to fostering an inclusive work environment. We value diversity and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, but final hiring decisions are made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.