Senior Ruby Developer - Contract (3 Month FTC)

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We love a challenge and are quick to adapt

Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization, from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats. 

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Where we are now

Immersive Labs was founded in 2017, from a cargo container in Bristol, UK we’ve grown to over 300 employees globally, announced funding of more than £150 million and been voted a Best place to work for the last 3 years running! We are trusted by the world’s largest organizations including KPMG, Sophos and the NHS to measure, map to risk, and optimize the human cyber abilities of their entire workforce.

https://careers.immersivelabs.com/our-story/

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.

Senior Back-End Developer - Ruby (3 Month FTC)

Due to a project we are undertaking within our Engineering division, we seek an experienced and enthusiastic Back End Developer with knowledge of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RESTful APIs and object-oriented design to join us on a fixed term basis of 3 months.

You will focus primarily on the performance and scalability of our platform as we look to continue to onboard more enterprise level customers, so experience of working on large enterprise platforms is highly desirable for this engagement.

This is an exciting opportunity to be responsible for developing a truly ground breaking product - you will be a key part of a project around driving performance within our platform and laying the groundwork for some exciting developments we are planning to implement.

Your main responsibilities:

You'll get to immerse yourself in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS. We want to give you a place where you'll learn from us and we'll learn from you through getting involved in the following:

• Formulate technical solutions from product requirements in collaboration with others to create a first class platform

• Design, build and maintain an efficient, reusable and reliable codebase 

• Maintaining good test coverage over all aspects of the codebase by performing unit tests and integration tests

• Identify bottlenecks and bugs in back-end code, and devise solutions to these problems to minimise customer impact

• Translate technical language/concepts for non-technical individuals written and orally 

• Be actively involved in all team ceremonies, 2-week sprints and retrospectives, working closely with product managers and other disciplines

• Work closely with the front end developers; our front end applications are developed in JavaScript, React, HTML5, and CSS3

You should apply if you have:

• Demonstrable and up-to-date knowledge with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, APIs (GraphQL or REST), and object-oriented design. 

• Experience with AWS or Kubernetes

• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system and create database schemas that represent and support business processes

• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable applications

• Proficient understanding of Git and familiarity with CI setups

If you would like to read more about what you can expect from our recruitment process, you can visit our dedicated interview process page.

Find out more at https://careers.immersivelabs.com

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