Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

About Sage

Sage is the global market leader for technology that helps small and medium businesses perform at their best. Sage is trusted by millions of customers worldwide to deliver the best cloud technology and support with our partners to manage finances, operations, and people. We believe in doing everything we can to help people be the best they can be, so the combined efforts of 13,000 Sage colleagues working with businesses and communities make a real difference to the world.

Position

A career at Sage Barcelona puts you in one of the most beautiful cities on the planet, developing some of the world’s most transformative integrated business systems. Wherever you’re working right now, that probably sounds like a dream opportunity. Well, how about making it more than just a dream?

We’re offering an attractive relocation support package for the people with Ruby on Rails or .Net experience. The package includes help with accommodation, flights, legal fees and supporting your tax status as a Spanish resident. If you want to start a new life in a city that has everything, working in a friendly team as part of a global, growing business, read on to find out more.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deliver, maintain and implement high quality technical solutions
• Take technical ownership of functions/features or services as defined by the development team
• Participate in all phases of the project lifecycle 
• Maintain relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable
• Continuously strive to make improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services 
• Seek out and act upon feedback
• Offer mentoring and coaching to junior members of the development team
• Ensure all tasks are completed to the required quality standards
• Keep up to date with relevant technology areas

Your qualification

You’re an inquisitive technologist, interested in how things work and how you can make them better. You enjoy reading code and fully understanding the environment in which it runs, from the network stack to the back-end storage layers and everything in between. You’re interested in building tools that help your fellow developers work better and release faster. You’ve developed using a variety of technologies, with experience of a Ruby, Java or Python a keen interest in learning new programming languages and tools. You will have worked with AWS, Docker, NoSQL and SQL datastores, CI/CD systems and will have done some system administration in your past. It is paramount that you have had experience with Ruby, Java or Python.

The Software Engineer position will be responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining products and/or systems to enable Sage’s business plans and long-term objectives, including the delivery of software at scale and pace. The Software Engineer will assume ownership in the design, development and delivery of high-quality products and/or systems and services that improve the performance, scalability, reliability and testability of our cloud-based suite of software products.

What we offer

Some of the amazing benefits

• Help with the emigration paperwork to work in Spain for European citizens
• Spanish tax briefing fully paid
• Six weeks’ temporary accommodation fully paid
• Flights to Barcelona fully paid
• GM Case System Licence fully paid
• Flexible working available
• 'Save & Share' stock options
• 5 days off to do charity work Global hackathons
• Technical fellowship programme