Senior Ruby Engineer

The Engineering Department at Stuart is home to over 150 engineers based across Europe. Many are based in our Barcelona office but most work remotely from Spain, France, the UK and Poland.

Backend Engineers build the core of Stuart products. They operate as part of cross-functional teams and they help define, improve, build, and deliver features collaboratively with their teammates. Stuart’s backend code is composed of a Rails API providing both REST and GraphQL endpoints and a number of supporting services written in Ruby, Scala, Python and Elixir.

We have a helpful and collaborative team culture where engineers support each others’ efforts via regular pairing, internal demos, taking online classes together, mentoring, and running internal conferences. Engineers are also encouraged to contribute to culture and growth on the team through initiatives like hosting talks, defining team processes, and taking part in hiring 💪

What will I be doing? 🤔

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand the problems the business is solving, and align on the best solution.
• Create well designed and tested changes to our codebases which fit with the principles of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.
• Help review changes other engineers have made.
• Invest time in producing good metrics, logging, and observability to ensure features achieve their goals and work optimally.
• Work with their manager through one-on-ones to grow their career.

What do we need from you? 😎

• Industry experience working on backend systems – building, maintaining and operating backend systems with high availability and scale requirements.
• Competency with Ruby (and Rails).
• Experience working with distributed systems and service oriented architecture.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Fluent in English (we do offer English classes to help non-native speakers improve their skills).

The stuff you wanna know 😉

• Family-friendly work-life balance – work from home and flexible hours 🏡
• Option to work remotely anywhere in the U.K. 🇬🇧
• Meal Vouchers (£11 daily).
• Unlimited access to Udemy for all your learning and development needs.
• Stuart Academy with regular workshops, Stu-Classes, and Stu-Talks.
• Stuart is putting Mental Health Awareness first! Wellness Allowance (£40 monthly) to use in any gym or sport class.
• Private healthcare provided by AXA.
• Pension taken care of through a partnership with Royal London.
• Work in an international, dynamic and passionate environment with a company culture focused on learning and development.

You’ve read all this way but you’re missing a skill or two? No problem, it’s our job to up-skill you to take your career to the next level. What we’re trying to say is, don’t be afraid to apply if you don’t tick all the boxes.