Ruby on Rails Developer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 25 March 2026
LOCATION
Reading
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

Ruby on Rails RSpec JavaScript HTML CSS Git REST APIs PostgreSQL

FULL DESCRIPTION

[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] bridges the gap between dealers, manufacturers, technology suppliers and car buyers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Development - This role will directly contribute to our platform growth ambitions. This role will work alongside the other engineers in expanding the feature-set of the platform.
  • Enhance, refactor and maintain our existing software as a service platform.
  • Determine a suitable approach for an identified problem space.
  • Ensure the solution meets the acceptance criteria outlined for that problem space.
  • Implement effective test coverage for the solution to ensure it behaves as expected.
  • Conduct code reviews for pull requests.
  • Be accountable for the solutions you implement.
  • Manage development tasks from initial assignment through to release.
  • Assist with the grooming of the backlog and the continual refinement of issues.
  • Support - As a member of the Engineering Team this role will provide ongoing support to our clients and the wider company to preserve the value of the platform.
  • Build and maintain a personal knowledge base of the system’s functionality, data sources, data structures.
  • Act as a technical expert to support colleagues.
  • Answer technical queries posed by our other teams.
  • Provide day-to-day support to the Vehicle Hub Engineering Team through collaboration and to help resolve development blocks.
  • Identify enhancement opportunities in the system; whether because of technical debt, poor data quality, a poor or inconsistent user experience or through advancements in technology.
  • Platform - This role will contribute to the ongoing operations and maintenance of the Vehicle Hub platform to keep it secure, stable and supported.
  • Update our software dependencies as required, including language and framework upgrades.
  • dentify when our test coverage is lacking and enhance as appropriate.
  • Maintain, update and build our application containers.
  • Deploy to our non-production and production environments through our deployment process.
  • Build and maintain a personal knowledge base of our infrastructure and associated technologies.
  • Monitor our infrastructure to ensure it remains available and performant.
  • Provide support to resolve infrastructure issues.

Essentials Skills and Qualifications:

  • Competent developing with Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework (likely 4+ years' experience).
  • Proficient with the RSpec automated test framework.
  • Proficient at Javascript (native and jQuery).
  • Proficient at HTML, CSS & JavaScript preprocessors (HAML/SASS/SCSS).
  • Experience of maintaining and operating a production Ruby on Rails SaaS application.
  • Experience of working in a busy, multi-functional and collaborative development team.
  • Experience of working in an agile development environment.
  • Experience of planning and prioritising a variable workload and delivering to deadlines.
  • Experience with using source code management, such as Git and GitHub, as part of a collaborative workflow.
  • Experience in implementing scalable REST APIs using Ruby on Rails.
  • Working in technology in a changing industry means an ability to learn quickly and maintain up-to-date knowledge is critical.
  • With the role being primarily remote we need strong communicators, both written and verbal, with the ability to summarise and clearly convey information and advice.
  • Working within a broader business requires the ability to deal with people professionally and courteously, even when you are busy.
  • Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

These will be a plus:

  • Experience with Application Performance Monitoring tools such as AppSignal and New Relic to identify and investigate issues.
  • Experience with DevOps, including infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
  • Experience with cloud-based infrastructure, from deployment and monitoring through to provisioning resources.
  • Experience with CI/CD approaches.
  • Experience with containerised applications, from the Dockerfile through to deployment and orchestration.
  • Experience with implementing and maintaining GitHub Actions for process automation
  • Experience with database administration for PostgreSQL, including through the Active Record ORM and associated migrations.
  • Experience with Hotwire designed frameworks such as Stimulus.
  • Experience with ETL data integration processes.
  • Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
  • Experience in the automotive industry.
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