Lead Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails) - Portify｜Meet.jobs

About Portify

Over 90% of new jobs are 'contingent work'. Think gig-economy, zero-hour contracts, and hourly pay often across multiple employers. Workers often choose this work to maximise their flexibility.

Portify offers a simple suite of products that help these workers maximise take home pay, to make sure this freedom comes with financial security. Our vision is to build a world where everyone can pursue their dreams without economic concerns.

Since our founding in May 2017, Portify has raised over £6m and helped tens of thousands of workers with the thing that matters to them most: money.

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer (think "Senior+") to work directly alongside the CTO and help our product scale to one million users and beyond.

What will the role involve?

• Hands on mentorship, nurturing and growing the existing engineering team.

• Defining best practice around software development and quality assurance.

• Getting stuck in and writing code that will go to production.

• Use your experience and draw from others as we navigate the challenges that come with scaling.

Our Stack

Back end: Ruby on Rails / Heroku / Redis / Sidekiq
Front end: React Native / Expo / Redux

What are we looking for?

• Experience with a startup during their 'scale-up' phase. We are entering this period and your learnings of growing teams as well as tacking the inevitable technical challenges that come with a growing user base will be valuable.

• Strong Ruby on Rails skills and knowledge.

• Adaptability, the ability to keep cool, and great teaching skills.

Salary and Equity

Salary: £60,000 - £90,000
Equity: 0.0% - 0.2%

Visas

We can sponsor visas for this role

What can we offer you?

• Mentoring and growth. We will make sure that you are always learning and have the resources and mentorship needed to fine-tune your craft and propel your career

• A mission to help 160 million Modern Workers access fair financial products

• Working at a tight knit, but growing company that has received awards for our positive impact on economic inclusion by institutions such as the Royal Society of Arts and Nesta. In addition, your colleagues have cut their teeth at companies like Amazon, Alibaba, Goldman Sachs, Mckinsey, received PhDs from Cambridge and started companies, including one acquired by Airbnb. We’re also backed by top tier VCs including Redalpine, Kindred Capital, and Entrepreneur First

Our Culture

1. We hire people we believe in, who are exceptionally smart, driven, and independent

2. We decide where we need to get to together, and support you however we can so you can get us there

3. We expect you to relish this responsibility, and work hard to maintain and build upon that trust

We treat each other respectfully, we aim for quality and success in everything we do, we value intelligence and dedication, and we have a laugh along the way.

Benefits

• Learning & Development budget

• Private healthcare insurance

• ClassPass membership

• Matched carbon off-setting

• Top quality equipment provided by Portify

• Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme

• 25 days holiday + 3 days office closure between Christmas and New Year