Quick overview
Job description
Our client - Central Government - is seeking an experienced Ruby on Rails Developer on an interim basis to support the build and delivery of tooling for a new archiving team within a major government publishing service.
Key skills/experience:
- Strong commercial experience in Back End development using Ruby on Rails, building robust, performant applications and taking responsibility for code quality.
- Excellent understanding of software design principles, automated testing, TDD, continuous integration, pair programming, code review and version control, with GitHub experience.
- Experience working in AWS environments and deploying code regularly through automated pipelines, with awareness of cloud web technologies such as HTTP, databases, CDNs, search and containers (Docker or Kubernetes).
- Ability to understand user need, work through ideas on paper and propose solutions with a multi-disciplinary agile team, rather than waiting for a specification.
- Understanding of common web security risks (OWASP Top 10) and their mitigations, plus the ability to deliver well-documented changes for hand-over to a permanent team.
This is a 6-month contract, inside IR35, offering predominantly remote working with flexibility to attend the London office for occasional team meetings.
If your experience matches the criteria above, please get in touch.
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