Remote Software Engineer (SDE II)

Summary

Join Carwow Group, a pioneering company that's revolutionizing car-changing, as a software developer to create simple solutions for complex problems. You'll work with a full-stack team in Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and Heroku, with opportunities for career progression and continuous learning.

Requirements

• Have around 2 years or more experience in software development
• Have a good grasp of Ruby, both plain and with frameworks (e.g. Ruby on Rails)
• Enjoy working within a TDD environment
• Like the idea of working on events based systems, for example Kafka
• Are comfortable using git or other source control system proficiently
• Have worked in a metrics-driven team and care about the outcomes of your work
• Are self-driven and take responsibility for product outcomes, doing whatever’s necessary to make things happen
• Enjoy working in distributed teams and working cross-functionally with Product managers, designers, user researchers and other developers
• Write code to be maintained – with good documentation, tests, and structure

Responsibilities

• Work with our team in a full-stack position
• Break down and build features with the team, review code, mentor engineers, ensure operational excellence, and share knowledge broadly across the engineering organisation
• Decide what features to build for customers, work closely with a Product Manager and a Tech Lead

Benefits

• Remote working with 4-5 trips to London each year
• Competitive salary to fund that dream holiday to Bali
• Matched pension contributions for a peaceful retirement
• Share options - when we thrive, so do you!
• Vitality Private Healthcare, for peace of mind, plus eyecare vouchers
• Life Assurance for (even more) peace of mind
• Monthly coaching sessions with Spill - our mental wellbeing partner
• Enhanced holiday package, plus Bank Holidays
• 28 days annual leave
• 1 day for your wedding
• 1 day off when you move house - because moving is hard enough without work!
• For your third year anniversary, get 30 days of annual leave per year
• For your tenth year anniversary, get 35 days of annual leave per year
• Option to buy 3 extra days of holiday per year
• Work from abroad for a month
• Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies
• Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for little ones
• The latest tech (Macbook or Surface) to power your gif-sending talents
• Up to £500/€550 home office allowance for that massage chair you’ve been talking about
• Generous learning and development budget to help you master your craft
• Regular social events: tech lunches, coffee with the exec sessions, lunch 8 learns, book clubs, social events/anything else you pester us for
• Refer a friend, get paid. Repeat for infinite money