Ruby Developer

Duration: 6 Months

Rate: £500 - £600 per day

Location: Remote and Bath, Somerset occasionally when required (hybrid)

IR35 Status: Inside

Start: ASAP

 

A Ruby Developer is required for our higher education client who are embarking on a strategic project to complete a comprehensive review of their website and CMS architecture.

You will help to make key improvements to their CMS and associated infrastructure.

You will be working in a small but highly productive development team, providing project-based Digital development and consultancy in the client's bespoke, Ruby-based technical environment (including Typecase and Typecase for Courses).

This role has a strong focus on back-end development but will also include some front-end work.

Key pieces of development to be delivered include:

• ‘Lensification’: transition of selected content types from Typecase’s original ‘Origins’ design system to the current ‘Lens’ design system.
• Creation of new content types in Typecase, as required, including for virtual events.
• Delivery of a new, high-impact home page.
• Development of new templates for SSO functionality.
• General development work to support the Development roadmap.

 

Essential Skills & Experience include:

As the Ruby Developer you will possess the following:

Demonstrable experience of using Ruby on Rails or similar in production web applications (Specifically: Rails 5+, Ruby 2.5+).

Demonstrable experience of test frameworks (e.g. RSpec, Minitest, Selenium, Capybara).

HTML

CSS

SQL

Git

Continuous integration and deployment

 To possess extensive, high-level experience of Ruby-based digital development, with demonstrable portfolio of work.

In-depth technical experience of development on systems directly equivalent to the Clients digital infrastructure, including the Typecase and Typecase for Courses Ruby-based content management systems.

Ability to get up to speed with complex systems and infrastructure quickly and efficiently.

Proven ability to take the lead on digital development tasks with experience of working in Agile development teams

Experience of working with Jira or similar project management software.

Experience of conducting Discoveries and researching and documenting development approaches, contributing to the team knowledge base and assisting in the planning of development work.

Develop code in line with the team's coding processes and standards.

Ensure that technical excellence, appropriate testing, coding best practice, and version control are incorporated into the development process for every project.

Use appropriate patterns and frameworks in product design and implementation.

Document code and platforms to allow other team members to quickly understand and work with them.

 

 Desirable would be any:

Web server configuration (e.g. Apache, Nginx)

JavaScript

SasS

Web accessibility

 

 If this role is of interest, please email your CV to: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk