Senior Ruby Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer

Posted 24 March 2026

LOCATION

Remote

TYPE

Full-time

LEVEL

Mid-Senior level

SALARY

£100,000 / year

SKILLS

Ruby on Rails SQL Redis RSpec Git Object Oriented Design RESTful APIs

FULL DESCRIPTION

About [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]

We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer.

We’ve grown to a community of 5,000,000 authors, and transformed the way people write and publish their book. Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!

Responsibilities

Architect and develop highly scalable web applications;
Work closely with our designers and engineers to design, build, and ship new features from scratch;
Evaluate and improve the performance, durability, and security of applications in production;
Take ownership for your tasks and see features through from start to finish;
Build RESTful APIs.

Requirements

5+ years with Ruby on Rails at production level
Experience with SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis) databases
Unit tests (RSpec) and QA testing tools and techniques
Git advanced knowledge
Strong emphasis with Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
Perfectly fluent in English, great communication skills
Experience working remotely

Benefits

Work from home;
Paid paternal and maternal leave;
Annual team retreat