Ruby On Rails Developer

We’re looking for an experienced Ruby on Rails developer to join our growing developer team based in Paddington, London.

We don’t cut costs when it comes to developing the best ecommerce experience for our customers. Alongside our great team we use a number of contemporary tools such as AWS, GitHub, CircleCi, New Relic, to name a few. Our approach to code is simple, keep it clean and ensure it has good test coverage. We don’t ship code just to hit a deadline. At Arena Flowers you will work alongside experienced developers who will review your code and you will review their code. Everyone is treated equally when it comes to a PR. As a developer at Arena Flowers you'll experience a varied, challenging and fun environment.

We are constantly innovating, developing new products for the future to support the needs of our customers and clients.

The Job

Arena Flowers require the very best talent to improve our industry-leading ecommerce business. Our ecommerce platform is already sleek, easy to use and fast. But we know that it can always be better, and we need your help to achieve this. If you are motivated, eager to learn, have a keen eye for detail, and ideally experience with large codebases, then we want to talk to you.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing new user-facing, backoffice and API features.
• Working with the team to engineer a better code base.
• Continuous improvement of coding processes and devops.

Below are the key skills that we are looking for:

• Strong understanding of Ruby, and Ruby on Rails.
• Understanding of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, with some real-world experience.
• Web technologies: HTTP, Javascript (ideally React), CSS, HTML.
• Other skills: Git, Redis, AWS.