At Ruby50, we  are currently working with a number of companies in and around the London area to find developers with good experience of ruby/rails.

For those of you who don’t know, we’re a specialist recruitment agency set up by a team of developers at our sister company, Dynamic50. We have been around since 2008 and have worked with most of the top ruby employers in London to find extra resource, or build teams from scratch.

If you would like to keep in touch, drop an email to jobs@ruby50.com ;-)

We currently have the following jobs available, with roles ranging from 6 months of commercial experience, to very senior hands-on coders.

Reporting to the Global Creative Director, in this job you will work closely with designers, developers, UX specialist and product managers to deliver high quality user interfaces across multiple platforms.

With extensive experience in developing cross-browser, production ready UIs, you will provide thought leadership by keeping up-to-date with latest technologies, trends and standards.

This organisation embraces agile methodologies and you will work on UI stories within product orientated agile teams, while pairing with designers and developers to ensure a comprehensive and efficient approach to development.

This is a fantastic opportunity to have a meaningful impact at a forward-thinking organisation with worldwide reach.

Required Skills:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript (JQuery, Prototype)
• Strong understanding of semantic mark-up and web standards
• Experience of agile methodologies

Desired Skills:

• Ruby (on frameworks such as rails)
• TDD
• Git/SVN
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration
• Experience developing mobile UIs

Successful applicants will have a strong grasp of  Rails or Sinatra, along with good experience of JS tool-kits such as ExtJS, JQuery and PrototypeJS.

Working on extracting, reporting and displaying information from large, complex datasets, this is an excellent opportunity for somebody to work in a fascinating environment in the field of bioinformatics.

Required skills:

• Ruby (on rails/sinatra)
• Javascript

Desired skills:

• API integration (REST, SOAP)
• Search experience
• Experience of working with big data

The job is based in central London and we are looking for somebody who has at least 18 months commercial experience with rails, and some knowledge of server administration.

You will have the opportunity to work on the full stack, and be encouraged to contribute suggestions of how to improve the app.

Day-to day activities will involve maintenance of the app, implementation of new features, and refactoring inefficient parts of the codebase.

Required experience:

• Ruby on Rails
• JavaScript
• HTML & CSS
• Git
• Linux server administration (Redhat, Passenger)
• Computer Science related degree

Desired experience:

• TDD/BDD
• Integration with third-party APIs
• Optimisation of apps to scale

Salary: £33,000 per annum

Please contact jobs@ruby50.com to apply

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK

Ruby50 are currently looking for 2 experienced testing / Quality Analyst developers to work for a subsidiary of BBC Worldwide.

A large part of your job will be gathering business requirements and objectives and translating them into solutions that can be tested. Your responsibilities will include writing testing plans, cases and scripts for manual or automated execution

You will collaborate with a number of people across the team, ranging from developers and designers to product mangers. As such, you will be able to translate complex technical concepts into easy to understand, business language.

As this organisation has some very high traffic sites, it is important that production code is thoroughly tested before deployment. Applicants will be expected to have a good understanding of agile development life-cycle, while evaluating test performance and making continuous improvements to the automated, ruby-based test platform.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a developer with great analytical skills to join a world-renowned organisation who is putting together a new London-based team.

Required Skills:

• Ruby
• TDD/BDD tools (Rspec, Cucumber, Selenium, You decide…)
• Experience of testing across a range of platforms (web, APIs, mobile)
• Experience of testing within an agile development environment

Desired Skills:

• JavaScript & AJAX
• Java

Salary: up to £53k per annum

Please contact jobs@ruby50.com to apply

Applicants must have the right to reside and work in the UK

Working in a subsidiary of BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s commercial arm, this job will involve development of both high traffic consumer sites and in-house tools to manage and deliver digital content across multiple platforms.

This organisation believes that software is crafted and improved over time, rather than simply delivered. As such, you will be expected to stay on edge and bring new tools and methods into the job and wider organisations.

You will be expected to provide technical solutions to problems and engage in new feature development, while also maintaining existing applications.

A passion for BDD/TDD is a must and you will also be expected to engage in system, user and load, and regression testing. Knowledge is shared within the organisation through a mixture of pair programming and in-house presentations, enabling you to broaden your skills while passing your knowledge to others.

This is a fantastic opportunity to get involved with an exciting, organisation that will allow you to explore ideas while improving your professional development.

Required Skills:

• 5 years + years software development experience
• 2+ years commercial Rails
• BDD (Rspec & Cucumber)
• Git
• Experience of deployment (Rake, Capistrano)
• Good communications skills

Desired Skills

• HTML/CSS
• JavaScript & AJAX
• Selenium
• Java

Salary: £43,000 – £53,000 depending on skills and experience

Please contact jobs@ruby50.com to apply

Applicants must have the right to reside and work in the UK

Based in central London and working with the in-house development team, you will have responsibility for building a mobile delivery platform.

This is a great opportunity for somebody who wants to get stuck in at the early stages of a startup with big ideas in the area of app delivery.

Required Skills:

• Solid Rails
• BDD tools
• JavaScript

Desired Skills:

• MongoDB
• CSS

Salary: up to £50,000

Applicants must have the right to reside and work in the UK

Please contact jobs@ruby50.com to apply.

Working with the in-house team based in central London, this job will start at the end of May and last for roughly 6 – 8 weeks. The project will primarily involve building a CMS and skills required include jQuery, RSpec and Cucumber.

Required Skills:

• Ruby on Rails
• BDD (RSpec, Cucumber)
• Javascript (jQuery)

Desired Skills:

• MongoDB

Rate: up to £300 p/d

Applicants must have the right to reside and work in the UK

Please contact jobs@ruby50.com to apply.

You should have solid commercial experience in rails and be able to turn up and get on with the job without too much guidance. However, it is important that you ask questions about things that you are unsure.

The app is heavily tested with RSpec and Cucumber, so you should have a good understanding of these tools, along with good fundamentals of Mongo.

This is a great opportunity to work on an enterprise application that handles carbon calculation. The contract will be for an initial 2 months, but may be extended thereafter.

Required skills:

• Good Rails
• MongoDB
• RSpec
• Cucumber

Rate: £300 – £350 per day depending on skills and experience.

This job is based on-site in London, applicants must have the right to reside and work in the UK.

Please contact jobs@ruby50.com to apply.

Based on-site in central London, you will be working for an exciting music start-up who have been around for a few years.

The contract will last for 2 months and will involve slicing up and integrating .psds.

Required Skills:

• Haml.
• Sass
• JavaScript
• Rails
• Git

Rate: £280 – £350 per day depending on skills and experience.

This job is based on-site in London, applicants must have the right to reside and work in the UK.

Please contact jobs@ruby50.com to apply.