Software Engineer (Ruby)

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We’re revolutionising the way businesses provide electric vehicles to their employees! Our salary sacrifice scheme makes it simple and cost effective for companies to offer electric vehicles to their employees at a 20-50% discount. (All while helping them save on employer costs with zero net expense).

Our current tech team has fewer than 10 developers, including our CTO. We value autonomy and initiative, and we’re passionate about building scalable, high-quality web applications. We are looking for someone with 2+ years of experience in web application development, primarily in backend but comfortable working across the stack. You should be proactive, able to work independently, and capable of explaining technical concepts to non-technical colleagues. A focus on writing reliable code, testing, and ensuring minimal downtime is essential. Bonus points if you’ve worked on improving code quality and productivity through applied technical patterns.

Who you are

• 2+ years building web applications in a corporate or startup environment
• Primarily competent in backend development, but happy to work across the entire stack
• High level of autonomy, self-motivated, takes initiative
• Able to communicate technical concepts in a way that non-technical people can understand
• Confident implementing effective testing strategies for web application software
• Professional and responsible approach to application development e.g. no downtime deployments, knowing what could break and monitoring releases once they have gone out
• (Bonus) applied technical patterns / ways of working to improve code quality / productivity

What the job involves

• Evolving and adapting our web application using Ruby, Rails, React, Typescript. We have a small tech team (less than 10 developers including CTO) so there’s opportunity to have a big impact.
• Working closely with stakeholders to develop a deep understanding of the business.
• Helping to determine our technology roadmap / priorities alongside your other team members, key stakeholders and the leadership team.
• A focus on building out a highly automated, reliable platform for our customers, as well as our internal employees.
• Comfortable tackling ambiguous or poorly defined problems and proposing a suitable approach or solution.

About Us

Switching to an electric car is one of the most significant ways you can make a positive change towards net zero. We want to make it cheaper and easier than any other option. Salary sacrifice makes this possible, allowing employees to save 20-50% on any electric car by reducing your salary in exchange for an electric car as a benefit. This makes electric cars an affordable option for everyone.

Each person wants to make choices to achieve a net zero future. People are limited by information, access, price and complexity - this is slowing down progress globally. The pace of achieving net-zero is a huge problem because each tonne of carbon emissions contributes to climate change for centuries.

At The Electric Car Scheme, our goal is to make net zero the obvious choice.

You can offer a cost-neutral benefit that gives employees access to the most affordable way to switch to an electric car. Together we’re speeding up our ability to tackle climate change by empowering others to make sustainable choices.

The Electric Car Scheme is here to break down barriers. By empowering others to make sustainable choices, we can speed up your efforts to tackle climate change.

Benefits

• Hybrid working with 2 days in the office (Hayes, London)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays. Add 1 day holiday per year service + buy / sell up to 5 days each year.
• Flexible work policy with options to take into account family care.
• Best in class Family Friendly Leave and Pay. For example, our Maternity leave (in year 1) is 6 weeks full pay and 6 weeks half pay. This increases to 12 weeks full pay, 8 weeks half pay after year 1.
• Use our own scheme to lease a vehicle through salary sacrifice and save 40-70% to drive a brand new electric car.
• £100 home office budget.
• Pension.
• Equity options - own a part of the business!

Why Work With Us

• Personal growth - join us as an early employee to fast track your progression opportunities!
• Competitive salary, pension & incentives scheme to share in our success.
• Voted 4.9 on Glassdoor.
• Voted Top 100 Organisation to ‘Escape’ to in 2022 and in 2023 by Escape the City.
• Certified Company on Otta.
• Be part of our friendly, family-like culture, enjoy our benefits - we value our people, diversity and building a culture where we can thrive.
• We are the UK’s only B Corp Certified salary sacrifice provider.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development