Intermediate Ruby on Rails Developer

You'll probably have:

• 35 years of professional software development experience
• Strong commercial experience with Ruby on Rails
• Excellent understanding of Ruby and Rails conventions
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with PostgreSQL
• Experience using Sidekiq or similar background processing frameworks
• Confidence writing automated tests
• Experience using Git and modern software development workflows
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

AI Proficiency (Essential):

• Using AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor
• Using AI to accelerate feature development while maintaining high engineering quality
• Writing effective prompts that produce reliable engineering outputs
• Critically reviewing, validating, and improving AI-generated code rather than accepting it blindly
• Using AI for debugging, refactoring, testing, documentation and technical research
• Understanding the strengths and limitations of large language models
• Continuously experimenting with new AI tools to improve developer productivity

Backend:

• Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Sidekiq
• REST and GraphQL APIs
• OpenTelemetry
• Sentry
• New Relic
• Datadog

Frontend:

• Hotwire (Turbo and Stimulus)
• JavaScript
• TypeScript

Infrastructure:

• AWS
• Docker
• GitHub Actions
• CircleCI

AI Developer Tooling:

• GitHub Copilot
• Cursor
• Claude
• ChatGPT
• MCP-compatible development tools
• AI-powered code review and debugging tools
• LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini or similar)

Bonus points:

• AI-powered application development
• LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or similar)
• AI agents and workflow automation
• MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• Prompt engineering
• AI evaluation and testing techniques
• High-volume transactional applications
• Payment platforms
• GraphQL
• Performance optimisation and SQL tuning