Ruby Developer

On behalf of The Ministry of Justice, we are looking for a Ruby Developer (Inside IR35) for a 3 month contract based remotely.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government's ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.

The postholder(s) will be expected to support our portfolio of Ruby applications and/or add new functionality should the need arise. In addition, there is an expectation to continually improve the technical elements of the application to ensure they stay up to date.

Our tech stack

We use a range of technologies and we're looking for people who have experience of building web applications or Back End systems in an object-oriented language.

We use Ruby, WordPress/PHP and C# to write our application code, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, Sentry for application monitoring, Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services (read about our Cloud Platform), AWS for most of our infrastructure, GOV.UK Design System for our web interfaces and use MacBook Pros.

We're looking for candidates who have skills, knowledge and experience in the following:
. Expert knowledge of Ruby and Ruby on Rails
. PostGress/SQL Server
. Securely designing, building and maintaining APIs, services and systems
. Working on pre-existing codebases
. Improving the resilience and stability of software
. Applying practices to enable continuous delivery

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, MOJ guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Ministry of Justice guarantees to interview veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".