Ruby Developer, Ruby On Rails Engineer,

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Job description

Ruby On Rails Developer, RoR

Home based
100% Remote
£550/day Inside IR35
6 months Initial
Government Contract

Senior Ruby Developer, RoR, Rubyist, PostgreSQL, Ruby On Rails

PostgreSQL is also required

Day-to-day you will be responsible for working with that team to design, create and improve new and existing products, platforms and transactions across government.

The main responsibilities of the post are:

-Building web and mobile products to serve a variety of citizens' needs.
-Implementing APIs for internal and external use.
-Building up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a Continuous Deployment environment.
-Being involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices they can adopt and sharing your experiences.
-Sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team, both developers and non-developers
-Taking part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms, including occasional support outside of office hours 
-Experience building Server Side web applications and detailed knowledge of at least one programming language (we use a range of languages including ruby, python and Scala)
-An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
-Experience working on technical projects within a team
-Working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X
-Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as subversion or git
-Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques Desirable
-Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
-System administration and configuration management skills
-Experience presenting work at user groups and conferences
-Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites
-Understanding of the use of Responsive Web Design
-Experience of working with JavaScript libraries to produce data visualizations
-Experience of designing and maintaining public HTTP APIs

A software developer designs, runs and improves software that meets user needs. In this role, you will:
be responsible for writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach
create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse

Availability and capacity management. You can define, analyse, plan, forecast, measure, maintain and improve all aspects of the availability of services, including power. You control and manage service availability to meet the needs of the business in a cost-effective manner. This includes managing the capability, functionality and sustainability of service components (for example, hardware, software, network resources and software/infrastructure as a service).

Information security. You maintain the security, confidentiality and integrity of information systems through compliance with relevant legislation and regulations. You design, implement and operate controls and management strategies to allow this.
Modern standards approach. You use a modern standards approach throughout automation and testing.

Programming and build (software engineering). You can use agreed security standards and specifications to design, create, test and document new or amended software.

Prototyping. You can apply technical knowledge and experience to create or design workable prototypes, both programs and physical outputs. You understand parameters, restrictions and synergies.

Service support. You can maintain and support services.

User focus. You understand users and can identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You can translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs and engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users. You put users first. You can manage competing priorities.

People Source Consulting Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. People Source specialise in technology recruitment across niche markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project and Programme Management, SAP, Digital and Consumer Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Management Consultancy, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Public Sector, Healthcare, Finance and Oil & Gas.