JOB DESCRIPTION 

Technical System Ownership

• Creates and maintains a technical vision and roadmap for their areas of influence that serve as a framework for technical decision making
• Engages with delivery teams to help shape and critique their technical designs
• Guides the technical evolution while focusing on business outcomes
• Operates production systems , taking responsibility for availability, performance, security and incident management
• Monitoring and analytics
• Preparation of and maintenance of Technical Documentation

People Management and Team Leadership

• Provides leadership, direction, coaching, mentoring and support
• Ensures a safe working environment for all employees and ensures all operational, health and safety issues are proactively managed
• Assists in the recruitment and management of technical staff

REQUIREMENTS

Matching belows technical requirements:

• Ruby on Rails – ideally 6+ years experience. Needs an understanding of the framework and a strong command of Ruby programming, Rails conventions, and best practices.
• Plenty of experience with server-side rendered web apps, knowledge of client-side rendered apps is useful but not essential
• Git
• PostgreSQL (or another relational DB i.e. MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server)
• Web frontend experience (HTMl, CSS, JS, accessibility, responsive UIs)
• AWS – mainly S3 and general understanding of cloud infrastructure, but experience with Lambda & Cloudfront would be nice to have
• CI/CD deployments

Great to have:

• Cloudflare ü Docker
• Datadog (or a similar service)
• Algolia (or a similar service)

Nice to have: Heroku, BuildKite (experience with CI is pretty much essential but it doesn’t matter which specific tech), Emacs, Vim, Imgix, Sumologic, Airtable, Browserstack, Flywheel, Pingdom

• Proven effective in working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment, ideally using Agile processes
• Highly self-motivated and directed RECRUITMENT INFORMATION
• Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment requiring adaptability
• Displays integrity and ethical behaviour; interacts fairly, honestly and professionally in all business dealings

* Please send your application via email: [email protected]