How we work

At SH:24 we like to keep our stack relatively straight-forward: we build our software primarily in Ruby, most of which is within Ruby on Rails. We have a mixture of full stack Ruby on Rails applications and REST APIs serving React components and in the near future we will look to principally build out our front-end in React using the NextJS framework. Additionally, all our applications run on AWS, with a deep stack of EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, Elasticache, all managed using Terraform. Every project is run through CircleCI and we deploy to most of them several times a day.

We’re big followers of Agile and have daily stand-ups, as well as weekly estimating sessions, refinement sessions, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies. We use shortcut.com as a kanban/project management tool. We also love pairing and you can expect to work closely with your team!

What We’re Looking For

• You’re an expert software engineer (ideally in Ruby or JavaScript but we’re more than happy to talk talk to people with experience in other languages).
• You’re able to lead planning and architecture decisions throughout our service and communicate those decisions to other members of the team.
• Experience working on a delivery team shipping a product to users as well as owning entire features from inception through to delivery.
• You can look at a system and produce strategies and recommendations about how to refactor for greater sustainability.
• You have a great knowledge of databases and how they relate to ORMs. You’ll have solid experience at operating relational databases at scale.
• You have a working knowledge of AWS and containerisation basics: Virtual servers, networking, Docker and Kubernetes.
• We’re big testers here. We’d hope you are too, as well as following good design principles for creating code. You might not know what every letter of SOLID means (although it wouldn’t hurt!) but you should be interested to learn and have a good understanding of what it means to create great code.
• You love to mentor and guide other developers and up-skill those who are more junior than yourself.

Finally, and most importantly, you will love to learn, share knowledge and help others. The team at SH:24 is great because we provide the support to each other for everyone to perform well.

If this sounds like something you’d love to be doing then please send us an application and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. If you don’t feel like you match what we’re looking for exactly then please don’t let that put you off applying.

What You’ll Get From Us

• Competitive salary between £85,000 to £110,000
• A £250 budget to help you get set up for working from home
• 25 days annual holiday (in addition to the days between Christmas and New Year)
• Excellent pension contributions and life insurance.
• Regular company socials