We're looking for a senior Ruby engineer based in the UK to join the team at Contact.
What is Contact?
We're a platform that allows models to find work easily, and be booked directly without being represented by a traditional modelling agency. We currently represent about 400 models globally, and large brands including Nike, Vogue and Ellesse all book talent through our platform.
What will I be working on?
Contact's engineering "footprint" spans across three main codebases:
- The web product (built with TypeScript and React), which allows folks to book models, manage the lifecycle of any work they offer said models and lets agencies manage their talent on the Contact platform
- A native application (built with TypeScript and React Native) that allows models to accept / reject work, and manage any jobs they've been booked on
- An API (built with Ruby on Rails) that handles all the business logic that's necessary for Contact to function, serving up a GraphQL-based API and some basic admin tooling
In this role, you'll be primarily working on our API and web products, working with product managers, designers and other engineers to define and build new features and epics.
In your first week, you'll ship code to production — pairing with another engineer on a relatively small feature to get you familiar with how we work and the product.
In your first six months, we'll expect you to develop substantial knowledge of our codebases, and be able to work independently on basic functionality, helping less experienced engineers build out complex features.
After a year, we'll expect you know our product and codebases inside out, and be comfortable guiding a team of engineers working on large, cross-cutting features. At this point, we'd hope to be able to promote you to the next step on our engineering progression framework, which is Staff Software Engineer.
Contact is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team of people from a variety of different backgrounds. We strongly encourage anyone to apply, even if your skill set doesn't quite match the requirements below. We're particularly interested in hearing from people from typically underrepresented groups in the tech industry.
Requirements
- Significant experience working on complex Ruby on Rails applications, ideally at scale
- Significant knowledge of automated testing (Rspec or similar)
- Strong understanding of the security considerations of web applications
- Strong knowledge of relational database design (PostgreSQL or similar)
- Familiarity with GraphQL
- Familiarity with typical engineering team practices (sprints, planning, retrospectives, etc)
- Basic knowledge of React and TypeScript
- Experience mentoring and advising more junior engineers
- Desire to learn and grow, either as an individual contributor or manager
- A strong sense of pragmatism, and the willingness to question things that don't look right
Salary
This role is banded between £60,000 and £75,000, depending on experience.
Benefits
- Fully remote working; we don't mind where you're based, as long as you have the right to work in the UK, and we'll pay for space in a co-working space if you need it
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- Ownership in the business via EMI stock options
- £1,000 annual training budget
- Modern laptop (MacBook Pro / Air or ThinkPad) plus budget for additional hardware you need (monitors, keyboard, mouse, etc)
- Regular team events / off-sites