Are you an experienced Rails developer, passionate about transformational educational products?
- Mission-driven Ed-Tech sector leader
- Full-time permanent position with immediate start
- A supportive work environment that values communication and your opinions
- Sydney Head office or hybrid or remote
An exciting opportunity now exists to join one of the fastest growing and most innovative companies in the dynamic education technology sector – Studiosity.
Now reaching over 1.8 million students across the UK, UAE, Canada, Australia, NZ, USA and beyond – Studiosity is the premium partner of choice amongst educational institutions within a global market spending over $7bn per annum on learning support services.
With a prestigious client base that includes some of the world’s most well-known education institutions, Studiosity is ideally positioned to continue a period of stellar growth.
What you will do
Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will be an experienced Ruby on Rails Engineer in our Product team and drive the development and ongoing alignment of market leading, generative AI powered education technology solutions, in pursuit of our mission of increasing life chances for students, everywhere.
Key role requirements
- Help us build new features into our asynchronous writing feedback service and real-time classroom. We work with thousands of students every day with our software stack consisting of Ruby on Rails, React, ES6, along with EventMachine, NodeJS and web sockets.
- You will add automated tests to our 20k+ test suite written with RSpec, Capybara, Selenium and Jasmine to be run through our CICD system.
- Work with our team of mobile app developers to ensure our service is accessible to a broad range of students and their devices.
About you
To succeed in this position you will be an experienced full stack web engineer with expertise in Rails, React and/or other JS frameworks. We are specifically looking for candidates who can demonstrate good team work skills, have good English communication skills, and are passionate about learning and growth.
You will possess 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a minimum of 1+ years experience with Ruby on Rails development.
Relevant tertiary qualifications or industry certifications are highly desirable, you will be driven by the opportunity to create transformational products in the education sector.
You are looking to continue to develop and hone your skills, but also share your experience and leadership with others. You understand the core concepts around secure coding and factor that as a part of your work. You are eager to develop the right solution with automated tests to ensure it is also a reliable solution.
Why Studiosity?
We might be biased, but we think Studiosity is an amazing place to work. In addition to our noble purpose of increasing life chances for students, we benefit from a low ego, non-corporate and lifestyle-friendly work ethic and culture. These are complemented by an exceptional passion and drive for lifelong learning in which everyone stays results-driven and proud of the work we deliver every day.
Studiosity is based in St Leonards (Sydney) but we also have developers around Australia so an office based, hybrid or remote work environment is on offer. We use the latest collaborative tools such as Slack, Google Meet, Confluence and Jira.
To express your interest please forward a thoughtful cover letter accompanied by your current resume. Thanks for your consideration and we look forward to hearing from you.
