Senior Developer

Division/Business Unit: Systems

Reports To: Head of Systems

Office / Base: Edinburgh

Salary: £40 – 45K (Depending on Experience)

Job Purpose

Commsworld is looking for a full-stack senior developer to join its Systems team in Edinburgh. The successful candidate will continue the development and maintenance of a suite of Rails applications; building new features, applications and integrations in line with changes and improvements to business process and to accommodate new products and services for customers.

Key Responsibilities

As a minimum you may be called upon to undertake all or some of these activities as required:

Develop & implement new business applications
Develop & implement integrations between business systems
Develop & implement new business driven features in existing applications
Ongoing development support (e.g. bugfixes, upgrades, migrations and addressing vulnerabilities)

Knowledge / Skills / Background / Qualifications

3+ years of professional experience in software development
Several years experience with Ruby and Rails
JavaScript (we use Stimulus and some legacy jQuery)
Relational databases (we use MySQL and PostgreSQL)
Third party APIs (a variety of technologies including REST and SOAP)
Test Driven Development (we use rspec)
Familiarity with Linux terminal command line operations
Excellent communications skills (both written and verbal)
Good problem solving skills and capable of self-driven learning

Professional Profile

Commsworld is looking for candidates who are highly experienced in development of database driven Rails applications, interested in joining an innovative technical team in a growing dynamic service provider business. Candidates should be able to work autonomously, using their own initiative as well as within a team as required.