Ruby Developer

Funding Circle is the world’s leading marketplace exclusively focused on small businesses — more than $2bn has been lent to 15,000 businesses in the UK, USA, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. Today, businesses can borrow directly from a wide range of investors, including more than 47,000 people, the UK Government, local councils, a university and a number of financial organizations.

The Engineering team is seeking a creative and experienced Ruby Engineer to bring simplicity to the forefront of our distributed systems while taking on the banking industry. Our small but mighty team is mission-driven, already making revenue, and offering a great service at the same time. We are looking to grow our team with passionate engineers who love experimenting with new languages and technologies while helping foster a collaborative, inclusive, and professional work environment.

• Build and expand our highly-available microservice architecture.
• Apply innovative technology to scale in terms of software
• performance, maintainability, and business processes.
• Process high throughput transactions with confidence.
• Build infrastructure to collect 'big data' for risk modeling and
• real time analytics.
• We use the right tool for the job, so we are always reevaluating our
• stack. Our current go-to technologies are Clojure, Ruby, and
• PostgreSQL. We run on AWS which includes the usual supporting cast and
• crew making up a modern web platform. We practice continuous
• integration, have a container-based deployment workflow, and largely
• practice XP. We have daily stand-ups, weekly retrospectives, and
• practice pair-programming.

• At least 1 year of professional experience working with Ruby (or
• really strong personal project).
• 4+ years of overall software engineering experience in any language
• (Ruby, Python, Java, etc).
• Strong interest in functional programming. Comfortable in Unix/Linux
• environment and familiarity with Docker, Mesos, or experience with
• distributed systems, Cassandra, or any other skills that will help us
• scale are a plus.

Bonus Points for:

• Interest in working with Clojure
• Github or other open source code we can check out
• Database experience
• Distributed systems experience
• Experience with microservice and/or event-driven architecture
• Operating at scale with low-latency systems