Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

Evolving and adapting our web application using Ruby, Rails, React, and TypeScript. We have a small tech team (less than 10 developers, including CTO) so there’s an opportunity to have a big impact.

• Working closely with stakeholders to develop a deep understanding of the business.
• Helping to determine our technology roadmap/priorities alongside your other team members, key stakeholders, and the leadership team, with a focus on building out a highly automated, reliable platform for our customers, as well as our internal employees.
• Comfortable tackling ambiguous or poorly defined problems and proposing a suitable approach or solution

Who are you?

• 2+ years building web applications in a corporate or startup environment
• Primarily competent in backend development, but happy to work across the entire stack
• High level of autonomy, self-motivated, takes initiative
• Able to communicate technical concepts in a way that non-technical people can understand
• Confident in implementing effective testing strategies for web application software
• Professional and responsible approach to application development, e.g., no downtime deployments, knowing what could break, and monitoring releases once they have gone out
• (Bonus) Applied technical patterns/ways of working to improve code quality/productivity

About us:

Switching to an electric car is one of the most significant ways you can make a positive change towards net zero. We want to make it cheaper and easier than any other option. Salary sacrifice makes this possible, allowing employees to save 20-50% on any electric car by reducing their salary in exchange for an electric car as a benefit. This makes electric cars an affordable option for everyone.

Each person wants to make choices to achieve a net-zero future. People are limited by information, access, price, and complexity - this is slowing down progress globally. The pace of achieving net-zero is a huge problem because each tonne of carbon emissions contributes to climate change for centuries.

Our goal is to make net zero the obvious choice.
We offer a cost-neutral benefit that gives employees access to the most affordable way to switch to an electric car. Together, we’re speeding up our ability to tackle climate change by empowering others to make sustainable choices. Our scheme is here to break down barriers. By empowering others to make sustainable choices, we can speed up our efforts to tackle climate change.

Benefits:

• Hybrid working with 2 days in the office (Hayes, London)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays - 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, for example, our Maternity leave (in year 1) is 6 weeks full pay and 6 weeks half pay. This increases to 12 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay after year 1.
• Use our scheme to lease a vehicle through salary sacrifice and save 40-70% to drive a brand new electric car
• £500 pa. personal development budget
• £100 home office budget
• Bupa healthcare
• Pension

Equity options - own a part of the business!

Why Work With Us

• Personal growth - join us as an early employee to fast-track your progression opportunities!
• Competitive salary, pension & incentives scheme to share in our success

Be part of our friendly, family-like culture, enjoy our benefits - we value our people, diversity, and building a culture where we can thrive
We are the UK’s only B Corp Certified salary sacrifice provider

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free On-site parking

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Position: Ruby on Rails - Software Engineer - Job Type: Full-Time - Pay: £50,000 to £70,000 per year - Location: Hybrid remote in Hayes UB3