Graduate / Junior Ruby Developer

Company
Forward Technology
Location
Camden, London (NW1), United Kingdom
Salary
£25k (DOE) + Excellent Benefits

About Forward Technology

Established in 2004 this privately funded organisation owns a portfolio of award winning internet businesses focussed on consumer engagement and innovation. As a member of the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and Deloitte Technology Fast 50 this dynamic organisation has stunning offices, employs over 300 people and has revenues exceeding £100million.

Job summary

Joining as a Graduate Developer / Junior Developer / Graduate Web Developer you will build your career alongside a talented development team working specifically on a high profile price comparison and switching site. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to put your development skills to the test whilst working on a public facing website, internal tools as well as other projects. It isn’t every day a Graduate opportunity arises where your code will impact so many users.

Skills & Requirements

A Graduate Developer / Junior Developer / Graduate Web Developer (Open Source) is needed to join a comparison price website that helps businesses get the best deals available. This is a unique opportunity to work for a major internet business that offers great benefits and an amazing creative environment. Read on...

Joining as a Graduate Developer / Junior Developer / Graduate Web Developer you will build your career alongside a talented development team working specifically on a high profile price comparison and switching site. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to put your development skills to the test whilst working on a public facing website, internal tools as well as other projects. It isn’t every day a Graduate opportunity arises where your code will impact so many users.

To qualify... We are seeking degree educated (or the equivalent commercial experience) Graduate Developers / Junior Developers with CVs that can demonstrate the following:

• A degree education: Maths, Computer Science or similar (although self-taught developers will also be considered). • A passion/enthusiasm for development and the open source community (you should ideally have a github account and have made contributions to open source projects). • You must have a logical and programmatic mind and be able to pick up new technologies and languages by Googling it and having a play, not just by sitting in a classroom.

Technologies and skills they currently work with include... OOP, Ruby on Rails, HTML5, JavaScript, MongoDB, MySQL, Amazon Web Service, REST, C#/WPF, Linux (Servers, Windows (Users/Development), OS X (Development) and HTTP. It would be great if you could demonstrate experience in this.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong work ethic looking to work in a beautiful office furnished with best-in-class facilities including; free lunch, breakfast and tea, free massages, pool table, foosball table, top spec laptops, Aeron chairs, Wii and fully stocked bar. Get in touch...

Guru are an employment business renowned for delivering careers networking to the IT sector. In this instance Guru are managing the selection process for this particular Graduate Developer / Junior Developer (Ruby) campaign on the behalf of our client. We offer a transparent service to both clients and candidates which means that if you pass our initial filtering criteria (based on your CV suitability against our client’s requirements) we will email you with the client’s details and also pass your complete application to the client for consideration. By applying to this role you are granting consent for us to work in this way. One final note, your application will only be used in conjunction with this specific role.

How to apply

Please send through a copy of your CV to [email protected] quoting job reference number and where you have seen the role advertised.

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