Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Our Future Healthis an ambitious collaboration between the public charity and private sectors designed tohelp people live healthier lives for longer through better prevention earlierdetectionand improved treatment of diseases. We will speed up the discovery of new methods of early disease detection and the evaluation of new diagnostic tools to helpidentifyand treat diseases earlywhen outcomes are usually better. With over 2.5M volunteers across the UKwerenow the worlds biggest health researchprogrammeof its kind and our volunteer group is also more diverse than other similar health researchprogrammes.

Technology and data are central to our systems power web sites clinics across the UKsecureanalyticsand researchsystemspipelines thatprocesshighly sensitivehealthand geneticdata and we are continuing to grow our engineering capability to support this ambition.

We are hiring a Software Engineer to join our Researcher Acquisition squad. This is a cross-functional squad focused on our community of world class health researchers. Working closely with our access governance & data teams we support researchers on their journey in learning about Our Future Health joining the program and gaining access to the right data to run good quality studies in our trusted research environment.

Our core tech-stack includes Ruby on Rails PostgresSQL Terraform (IaC) running in Azure (Kubernetes and Azure AppService). Additionally we will be integrating some of our services with our SaaS services so experience with 3rd party APIs Webhooks or some level of event driven back end processing would be a great bonus.

Our engineers are full-stack handling frontend backend and infrastructure in a total ownership model - squads build and run it.

If you are passionate about your work develop consistently high-quality code and are adept at identifying preventing and troubleshooting problems we would love to hear from you.

This role will be fully hybrid with the expectation we get together in our Holborn London office at least once per month.

We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria so if you have most of the belowwedlike to hear from you:

Technical Skills

• Knowledge and experience of building cloud-hosted applications using Ruby on Rails in a start up- public service- or charitable setting
• Experience with background job processing frameworks (e.g. Sidekiq) and asynchronous workflows
• Additional experience with 3rd party API integration Webhooks and event driven backend services would be a nice to have
• Prior experience with Azure (ideally) AWS or GCP
• Comfortable working with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes is a plus
• Knowledge of good data modelling and design patterns; in-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) and familiarity other types of data store (blob document graph)
• Good experience in using modern agile development practices like code review TDD CI/CD and pairing using tools like Git and GitHub
• Experience of operationally managing software components once live including; observability logging metrics error reporting debugging and live incident management
• Experience of working with sensitive personal data.

Competencies

• Experience working in cross-functional teams consisting productUXand non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders and audiences outside your own team
• Experience working in small growingorganisationswith a high degree of ambiguity where flexibility is valued
• Understanding of software quality principles and practices
• Comfortable in mentoring and coaching less experienced engineers
• Comfortable in taking part in - and sometimes facilitating technical discussions

• Competitive base salary from 63000
• Generous Pension Scheme We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%
• 30 Days Holiday pro rata Bank Holidays Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you
• Enhanced Parental Leave Supporting you during lifes biggest moments
• Cycle to Work Scheme Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice
• Home & Tech Savings Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice
• EV Scheme Save up to 40% on a brand new electric vehicle all-inclusive package through salary sacrifice
• 1000 Employee Referral Bonus Know someone amazing Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support Access to Mental Health First Aiders plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee AssistanceProgrammefor you and your family
• A Great Place to Work We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn and offer flexible and remote working arrangements

Join us -letsprevent disease together.

We recommend you apply as soon as possible as occasionally due to high volumes ofapplicationswe need to close our postings early.

At Our Future Health werecognisethe importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates regardless of their background haveequitableaccess to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as havinga disability neurodiversity or long-term health conditions to let us know if theyrequireany reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.

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