Team Lead Ruby / Frontend Developer

Overview

In this hands-on Lead Frontend role, you will guide a small, fast-growing frontend team while shaping the web platform that powers a tech-driven investment firm. You’ll design architecture, drive development strategy, and collaborate with the Java API to deliver high-quality, scalable applications. The role blends maintenance with greenfield work in a dynamic, open culture that values thoughtful decision-making and technical excellence. This is a chance to influence critical user-facing products at pace in a flat organisation.

Responsibilities

• Development strategy and architecture
• Design and develop new applications with the existing team
• Help implement a REST API
• Ensure test coverage and quality
• Stabilise and integrate web platform with Java backend and AWS stack

Key requirements

• Degree level or equivalent
• Experience designing and building complex sites
• Ideally Ruby, but not required
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Team lead experience or mentoring ability
• jQuery
• Git version control
• Linux knowledge
• Mobile applications experience beneficial
• Hadoop experience (not required)

• Mentoring and leadership
• Collaboration in cross-functional teams
• Strong problem-solving mindset
• Ruby
• JavaScript
• HTML5

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