Senior Ruby Web Developer

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DescriptionCookpad is a tech company building a community platform that enables people to share recipe ideas and cooking tips. Its a global platform used by on average around 100 million people every month across the world. Over 6 million recipes havebeen created by people in more than 70 countries. How we gotstarted.Cookpad is dedicated to shaping the future of home cooking and food as a pillar for a sustainable future. Our mission is to make everyday cooking fun. We believe we can build a better worldthrough encouraging even more people to cook. Everyday, home cooking has a profound impact on ourselves and the world around us: it makes us healthier and connects us with our friends and family. Through solving the problems related to everyday cooking, wehelp people live happier and healthier lives in an environment that is more sustainable. Thats how we want to impact the world.Take a look at thisarticleto learn more about Cookpad and ourMediumblog to see what it is like to work at Cookpad. You can alsofind our engineering blog atsourcediving.comto read about some of the interesting engineering challenges we work on.Cookpad is one of Japans best known tech companies, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and was already highly successful before launchingglobally in 2013. With strong backing we have spent the last few years building the global platform and we are now in our commercialisation phase of the business.As a Cookpad Engineer, you will join a very high performing global team to help deliver our productto end users throughout the world.RequirementsIs this role for youThis role will either be based onsite in Bristol or we can consider remote for senior candidates based within 1-2 hours of GMT.You will be an advocate of Ruby on Rails, love writing tests,and have thorough knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL. You should also be at home refactoring and debugging large applications with a distributed team, and with tens of millions of users per month, you will also be adept at working at scale and withperformance always in mind.* Rapidly develop user-facing features, predominantly using Ruby and leveraging the Rails Framework* Support our backend platform that serves web clients and provides REST API endpoints for mobile client apps* Write clean, maintainable,and well-tested code* Contribute in all phases of development* Investigate and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies* Review PRs from other team members to maintain quality and share knowledge* Experience working professionally with Rubyon Rails* Experienced in performance, debugging, and refactoring* Comfortable with the full stack to deliver features from idea to production* Inquisitive, motivated, and comfortable working with a distributed, multinational team* Desire to rapidly contributeto Cookpad services and improve the experience for millions of users.BenefitsWhy join CookpadPeople join us because they share our vision to improve peoples lives. As a company Cookpad invests heavily in learning and development -we hire smart people whothrive in small, highly collaborative and energised teams, and who look at what we do and want to be part of it.Valuing our team means we offer competitive salaries, an employee referral scheme and very generous benefits, including 7% employer pension contribution,workplace nursery scheme, income protection and life insurance, and an employee referral scheme. We are central to transport hubs and bike routes which helps with flexible working and all-important downtime with family and friends.In our usual working environmentbreakfast is provided every day, we have a fully stocked and fully equipped team kitchen where we can cook together and there are weekly pilates/ yoga classes.In this interim period due to the current global pandemic we are working to keep as many of our perksas possible available to our staff. This includes moving the pilates/ yoga classes online as well as company socials and attendance of meetups.Equal OpportunityThe Cookpad team is made up of an incredible, diverse range of people. We are proud to be an equalopportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protectedstatus.Your PrivacyWhen applying for a job with Cookpad, we will collect personal data about you. We use that personal data for recruitment and hiring related activities, including analysis of those activities. Such processing is legally permissible underArt. 6(1)(f) of the General EU Data Protection Regulation and UK GDPR as necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment.You can read more about how we use your personaldata in our privacy policy, as well as your data protection rights. If you are an applicant from Europe, you can read our privacy policyhere. If you are an applicant from a country other than Europe, you can read our privacy policyhere.-* Pension* Life Insurance*Health Insurance* Income Protection* Bonus* Choice of Equipment* Fully Stocked Kitchen* Zoom Call* Tech Test* Zoom with Team Members* OfferRuby on Rails, Ruby, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, SQLRuby on Rails, Ruby, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, SQL, REST, APIs