Full Stack Ruby Engineer

VitalHub aspire to accelerate the delivery of digital transformation at scale, supporting healthcare organisations internationally to improve how they capture and analyse data. This helps enhance patient flow and enables better coordination of care across planned and unplanned services, mental health, workforce, and compliance. From patient-facing apps and in-hospital flow management to national system control centres supporting the provision of healthcare services across US, UK, Canada, Middle East & Australia, our solutions exist to deliver an eco-system of joined-up technical infrastructure and centralised data integration.

The Opportunity:

The Full Stack Engineer is a technical, hands-on development role within the Patient Engagement Platform (PEP) engineering team, which is part of the wider UK Engineering Department. You will join a small, highly experienced team of senior engineers both UK-based and offshore. We maintain a clean, well-tested codebase and we strive to maintain a good reputation for delivering robust, production-ready code on time and to-spec. We actively collaborate with colleagues across Product, Delivery, Cloud, QA and Business Analysis teams. We operate at meaningful scale with a complex application processing tens of millions of jobs daily, serving over 3 million registered patients on our platform.

Your Responsibilities:

• Play a meaningful role in the designing and building of both existing and new applications.
• Be comfortable assuming responsibility and autonomy to deliver production-ready code on-time.
• Be able to excel in a fast-moving environment; business and technical requirements can and do change rapidly in our industry.
• Be able to troubleshoot problems efficiently; we often investigate complex issues in a live environment where both speed and safety are paramount.
• Possess excellent communication skills and be able to articulate technical issues clearly and accurately to non-technical members of the team.
• Participate in agile ceremonies (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives).
• Collaborate with DevOps teams for smooth deployments and CI/CD pipelines.

What do we offer?

• Remote & flexible working
• 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Support to grow through professional learning & development courses
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Inclusive approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Events - networking and social
• PDP - progression & internal career opportunities
• Death in Service
• Regular training workshops

Do you have experience in Vue.js?, * Demonstrable Ruby on Rails experience writing maintainable, testable code.

• Experience in the design of application architecture e.g. models, services, database schemas, etc.
• Demonstrable relational database experience (we use Postgres) including the ability to write efficient SQL queries and optimise performance.
• JavaScript experience (knowledge of React and/or Vue.js)

Nice to Haves:

• Docker (used in all environments including Development).
• AWS experience (we use RDS, ECS, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda to name a few)
• HL7 / FHIR
• Integration patterns