Slice is the leading technology and marketing platform made exclusively for local pizzerias, making it super easy to order delicious, authentic local pizza anywhere, anytime. We serve the $45 billion U.S. pizzeria market in two ways: by providing a pizza-centric mobile and web ordering experience for consumers, and by empowering local restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their business, while helping them compete with Big Pizza.
We are on the hunt for a Senior engineer to join us at Slice! You will develop internal and customer facing web applications with Ruby on Rails while helping us grow our product offering by making great engineering decisions, mentoring some new graduates and juniors, lead projects, teams and be involved in technical architectural decisions!
- Opportunities to cross train into Ruby
Essential
- 5+ years of experience building commercial software in a modern programming language.
- Professional experience using Ruby on Rails.
- Experience building web applications.
- Comfortable in Linux/Unix-like environments for development and production.
- History of using solid software development practices and tools such as automated testing, source control, and agile process.
- Fluent verbal and written English skills
- Experience mentoring and developing junior staff
Senior candidates with no ruby/rails experience will also be considered if they wish to cross-train into rails.
Desirable
- Passion for technology
- Experience of building a strong engineering team through grad fairs etc
- Experience or an interest in Javascript, such as Node.js or React.
- An understanding of building consumer-facing web software, including shopping experiences and or e-commerce.
- Love for pizza
Interested?
We operate like a startup, so being self-motivated, curious, and flexible is a good start for thinking about whether you should apply. If you prefer to come up with your own solutions to problems but are not afraid to ask for help, thats step 2. Maybe you enjoy making suggestions for how to improve our product and business, no matter the department. And lastly, this job will probably be a lot easier if you have a soulmate-level love for authentic pizza because you will see a lot of it!
Why Slice?
Join a community of engineers who combine creativity, curious minds and a commitment to excellence with the desire and commitment to grow and build on the engineering skill base and community here in Northern Ireland, therefore we do not hire remote engineers. Missing a few of the criteria but have worked in a pizza shop, or feel you can solve some of our interesting problems? Why not get in touch!
Benefits
- Strong Competitive Salary
- Strong Pension Contribution
- Health and Dental Care
- Income Protection and Death insurance
- £750 a year to use for any self learning/education
- Health and wellbeing benefits
- Flexible working/ WFH
- Generous time off allowance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay schemes
- Childcare vouchers
- Free weekly pizza and all week round healthy snacks and drinks
- Conference attendance budget
- 50% off gym membership
My Pizza Slice Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and we value Diversity. We appreciate the differences in style and perspective as we believe it adds value to the organisation, and we aim to recruit likeminded employees. We are also proud members of the Diversity Mark NI initiative as a Bronze Member.
How to Apply
A CV gives us a good idea of your background, we are interested in your latest work and projects. Education is great to see, but it's not overly important to us. If you have them, be sure to include links to any personal projects, blogs, contributions, or anything you want to add to your application.
This job comes with several perks and benefits
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