As a Software Engineer II at Stora, you will join a team of Rubyists to enhance and expand a Rails-based self-storage software platform. You'll own features from idea to deployment, work across diverse domains like billing, CRM, APIs, and integrations, and contribute to a clean, maintainable codebase in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain features, owning them from initial discussions through to deployment.
- Work closely with the product team and other stakeholders to shape and refine new features.
- Dedicate time to app maintenance – we aim for at least 20% – improving stability, performance, and developer experience.
- Write and maintain tests so we can confidently deploy to production multiple times per day.
- Monitor, investigate, and resolve issues to keep the system stable and performant as we scale.
- Collaborate with and learn from experienced engineers to continuously grow your skills.
What We're Looking For
- Built and shipped production Rails applications.
- Know your way around the Rails ecosystem including writing clean, maintainable code and debugging in a live environment.
- Familiarity with ActiveRecord, background jobs, and the request/response cycle.
- Comfortable leveraging modern LLM-powered tools to speed up development, troubleshoot, and explore solutions while knowing when to rely on your own expertise.
- A testing mindset, with experience writing automated tests in Minitest or RSpec.
- Comfortable debugging and troubleshooting production issues.
- Able to work independently on well-defined projects while collaborating closely with a small, fast-moving team.
- Clear communicator who can explain technical challenges and trade-offs effectively.
Technical Stack
- Rails 8
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Sidekiq
- Turbo 8
- React
- ViewComponents
- Sass
- BEM methodology
- Minitest
- Capybara
- Playwright
- Stripe Connect
- Stripe Billing
- GitHub Actions
- Heroku
Team & Environment
- Small team of passionate Rubyists
- Fast-moving team of passionate Rubyists
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary – starting from £50k+
- Remote Work – Fully remote within the UK or EU only.
- Office Access – Use of office in Belfast for those who live locally.
- Health & wellness – Private health insurance for you and your family.
- Retirement – Company pension plan.
- Leave – 35 days paid annual leave
- Professional growth - L&D support
- Share options
- WFH budget
- Company-wide social events.
Work Mode
- Fully remote within the UK or EU only. Candidates must be based in either the United Kingdom or the European Union.
Stora is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religious belief or political opinion, or sexual orientation. All recruitment and employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and business need. We actively promote equality of opportunity and fair participation in line with our responsibilities under Northern Ireland equality legislation. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
