Ruby Software Engineer

At Smart, our mission is to transform retirement, savings and financial wellbeing, across all generations, around the world.

The Role

• Work within a smaller 6 to 8 person agile engineering team, part of a wider engineering community.
• Develop new features for our Keystone Platform, break down problems to smaller deliverables.
• Contribute towards tech designs and work in collaboration with the tech community, including architects and principal engineers.
• Engineer a better code base with your team.
• Work on tickets assigned to you, this includes writing code and specs (tests) and checking that new code passes other test coverage.
• Review Pull Requests from other developers and pair with other engineers, complete testing and quality checks.
• Directly Report to your Tech Lead who will help mentor you and guide your career.
• Take responsibility for the quality, security and performance of their work.
• Give feedback to others in their team and strive for continuous improvement.
• Be awesome at what you do best, code!

Requirements

The skills, experience, and aptitudes we are looking for are listed below but please don’t be discouraged from applying if you don’t meet every single one of these criteria – having a ‘can do’ attitude is sometimes more important than being able to tick every box:

• Understanding of object-orientated programming;
• Good commercial experience with Ruby, working in a Ruby on Rails environment;
• Desire to work with Domain Driven Design;
• Love to work using TDD;
• Knowledge of relational database (MySQL, PostgreSQL);
• Understanding of web design patterns;
• Previous experience working in a company scaling up is useful, but not essential;
• Most importantly, a desire to learn, grow, work with an amazing team and deliver software.

Who We Are

We work in partnerships with governments and financial institutions in the UK and internationally. Our cloud-native digital platform is revolutionising how people around the world think about, and save for, their retirement.

At heart, we’re a financial technology business. What we do is all about innovation, and using the power of digital change to put the customer first. Our Engineers will tell you that working at Smart gives you the opportunity to play your part in developing world-class technological solutions, working with – and learning from – like-minded people.

You’ll also find that, across our business, our colleagues love Smart’s culture, and how what we do means better financial outcomes for savers. That feels worthwhile, and it means that what we do, collectively, goes way beyond the nine to five of a typical working day.

Don’t just take our word for it – you can see what our colleagues say about working at Smart on the Linkedin Life and Glassdoor.

Benefits

• 26 days’ of paid holiday per year + Polish bank holidays;
• 2250 PLN annual training budget to spend on your professional development
• Health insurance (including dental care) via TU Inter
• MultiSport Plus Gym Card
• Online English lessons during working hours
• 30 days sick leaver per year (B2B contractor)
• 1 week paternity leave per year (B2B contractor)
• Death in service insurance cover (employees only)
• Fully-paid five-week sabbatical after five years of employment (employees only)
• In the Krakow office wellbeing, such as manicures, massages and barbers.
• Smart employees also enjoy a 50% discount on orders from our sister company Arena Flowers, Britain’s most ethical florist. They offer unique hand-tied bouquets, luxury flowers, letterbox flowers, plants and gifts to spend on friends and loved ones or even for yourself.

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