Hybrid Senior Software Developer, Ruby on Rails

at about source GmbH

• Job title: Senior Software Developer, Ruby on Rails
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Django, Laravel, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Leipzig, Germany

About the role

• Software Developer specializing in Ruby on Rails for a digital agency focused on societal impact. Engaging in agile processes and development of scalable software tools for campaigns.

Responsibilities

• You develop campaign and software tools for Campact, ensuring long-term, secure and scalable solutions.
• You implement requirements for Campact while keeping the software architecture in mind.
• You work in agile processes and contribute your individual skills to your Scrum team.
• You work creatively when developing applications and selecting appropriate technical options; you take into account other teams' development activities and optimize application development, maintenance and performance by using design patterns and reusing proven solutions.
• You are responsible for the implementation work when integrating software components, including code produced by you and your team.
• You ensure compliance with relevant standards.
• You ensure that implementations meet Campact's requirements and the requirements of the software development process.
• You investigate vulnerabilities at their root and resolve them directly. Together with your team you decide on the best course of action—whether repair, replacement or a bold rewrite—to keep our system stable and sustainably improve the software for everyone.

Requirements

• You have several years of experience in software development, especially web applications.
• You have planned, implemented and maintained web projects within teams and have experience with SCRUM or Kanban.
• You are able to understand, document and optimize complex structures.
• Ideally, you have already worked with Ruby on Rails, Django, Laravel or similar frameworks.
• You communicate clearly and respectfully in German (minimum language level C1).
• You enjoy what you do—and keep up to date with new developments in our areas of work.
• Security and data protection are important to you, and you take the OWASP Top Ten web application security risks into account when developing.

Benefits

• The opportunity to apply your skills to important social change.
• A high degree of personal responsibility and scope for shaping your work.
• Friendly, motivated colleagues who care about their work—and their free time.
• An annual multi-day team retreat where we address shared questions.
• As an employee-led organization, we follow a transparent and fair salary model that also applies to you.
• Active support for professional training and further education.
• Mobile working and home office with a subsidy for equipment.
• Flexible and family-friendly working hours.
• Commuting allowance and subsidy for a JobRad (company bicycle program).
• Employer contribution to company pension scheme.
• Possibility of workation, special leave and sabbatical according to company regulations.
• 30 days of vacation per year (based on a 5-day work week).