Remote Senior Ruby on Rails Developer 

A great opportunity for a talented Ruby on Rails developer to join us at an exciting time in our transformation programme, adding innovation and passion to the ranks of our IT team.

We are a strong and agile Digital Service Design Agency, starting as a market pioneer and grown into a successful international group.

With an instantly recognisable brand and growing from strength to strength, now is an exciting time to join us on the next stage in our journey.

What you’ll be doing:

• Contribute to creating a culture of writing excellent software
• Take wireframes/mockups and user stories and build systems that meet the requirements
• Working with key stakeholders to understand development objectives, designs and development requirements.
• Act as a key point of contact for business stakeholders wishing to scope change.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience leading development teams
• 5-8 or more years of experience with Ruby
• An expert in HTML, CSS & JS.
• SQL (MySql/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• A good working knowledge MySql.
• Able to take initiative.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experience working in an Agency or with a Government contract.

This is a fantastic opportunity if you are looking for remote and flexible work to add autonomy to your work/ life balance, if you would like to get more information please apply or email me at

As an industry leading, nationwide Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design recruitment agency, we are continually receiving new assignments to work on, so keep a close eye on our website, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages for a full list of current permanent and interim opportunities as well as marketplace news and fun stuff.
Forward Role is operating as an employment agency.

Remote Senior Ruby on Rails Developer 

A great opportunity for a talented Ruby on Rails developer to join us at an exciting time in our transformation programme, adding innovation and passion to the ranks of our IT team.

We are a strong and agile Digital Service Design Agency, starting as a market pioneer and grown into a successful international group.

With an instantly recognisable brand and growing from strength to strength, now is an exciting time to join us on the next stage in our journey.

What you’ll be doing:

• Contribute to creating a culture of writing excellent software
• Take wireframes/mockups and user stories and build systems that meet the requirements
• Working with key stakeholders to understand development objectives, designs and development requirements.
• Act as a key point of contact for business stakeholders wishing to scope change.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience leading development teams
• 5-8 or more years of experience with Ruby
• An expert in HTML, CSS & JS.
• SQL (MySql/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• A good working knowledge MySql.
• Able to take initiative.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experience working in an Agency or with a Government contract.

This is a fantastic opportunity if you are looking for remote and flexible work to add autonomy to your work/ life balance, if you would like to get more information please apply or email me at

As an industry leading, nationwide Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design recruitment agency, we are continually receiving new assignments to work on, so keep a close eye on our website, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages for a full list of current permanent and interim opportunities as well as marketplace news and fun stuff.
Forward Role is operating as an employment agency.

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to UK’s national security?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• How does 2-3 days per week remote working sound

NEED TO BE A BRITISH CITIZEN OR HAVE ILR TO PASS AN NPPV LEVEL 3 SECURITY CLEARANCE.

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript. This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.

Essential Skills -

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySql, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for -

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000 (negotiable)
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

• Fancy joining a market dominator who provides specialist solutions to UK’s national security?

• Like the idea of upgrading a platform that supports every police station in the UK to microservices & the cloud?

• How does 2-3 days per week remote working sound

NEED TO BE A BRITISH CITIZEN OR HAVE ILR TO PASS AN NPPV LEVEL 3 SECURITY CLEARANCE.

THE COMPANY: My client are the market leaders in providing specialist solutions around the governance, audit, asset tracking and competence of specialist police training and operations. Their platform supports 43 home office police forces and 3 national law enforcement agencies and provides learning management, asset management and reporting capabilities for the police forces.

Their platform consists of 3 main areas:

• A web application (Management Interface) built in Angular 7 and Javascript. This allows end-user to manage training needs and provides a central database for asset management.

• A desktop (Armoury Interface) based on the Electron framework, Node.js and Javascript which is used for access to the armoury for asset usage.

• A back-end RESTful API platform written in Java, Spring Boot and Hibernate at the core providing endpoints for the consuming applications. Utilises the spring cloud suite to provide resiliency, scalability, service discovery and distributed config.

THE ROLE: I’m looking for solid Java developers to join a growing product and engineering team to work on the next evolution of their versatile platform. You’ll have the opportunity to work on the platform services, but also to learn and work on the frontend Angular side of things when required.

Essential Skills -

• Excellent knowledge of the Core Java language - data structures, concurrency, multithreading
• Good understanding of the Spring framework (Spring Boot essential, spring cloud a bonus)
• Experience using Hibernate ORM
• Practical experience of TDD techniques
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines (construction and maintenance), techniques and tools
• Good understanding of SQL and relational databases (Oracle, MySql, MS SQL, postgreSQL)
• Experience building RESTful API’s for consumption by web/desktop applications

Bonus points for -

• Experience in service based, event driven and event sourced architectures
• Experience with synchronous and asynchronous communication using messaging/stream processors like RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Experience with web-application technology (we use Angular)
• Experience with containerisation using Docker & Kubernetes
• Good understanding of servlet containers (we use Tomcat)
• Good understanding of Linux and operating systems.

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

WHAT’S ON OFFER?

• A competitive salary of up to £65,000 (negotiable)
• Remote working on a weekly basis & flexi-hours
• Personal learning and development budget
• Option for subsidised private healthchoice
• An impressive 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (Option to flex this by five days)

DevOps Engineer

NodeJS / Java / OpenSource Dev Ops Engineer is required to join Fintech organisation within their infrastructure team. You will be responsible for the maintenance and support of their hosting environments, in addition to the building and deployment of their market-leading stochastic modelling solutions to the financial services industry from internal test systems to the production deployment.

Required Knowledge & Experience
We are looking for someone with 5+ years’ experience in a DevOps type role.

• Excellent working knowledge of Linux (Debian) administration

• Production Kubernetes experience

• Extensive knowledge of building, deploying and running Node.JS applications in a cloud environment

• Docker

• Mongo database

• Advanced SQL Admin skills, MySql preferred, with experience of Galera cluster a plus.

• A good understanding of Java is advantageous

• Jenkins

• AWS

• OpenNebula

• Git, SVN

• Knowledge of ITIL v4

Desirable experience :

• Artifactory

• Maven, Ant

• An appreciation of financial services, pensions and investments a plus

For further details please contact Katie Collins.

DevOps Engineer

NodeJS / Java / OpenSource Dev Ops Engineer is required to join Fintech organisation within their infrastructure team. You will be responsible for the maintenance and support of their hosting environments, in addition to the building and deployment of their market-leading stochastic modelling solutions to the financial services industry from internal test systems to the production deployment.

Required Knowledge & Experience
We are looking for someone with 5+ years’ experience in a DevOps type role.

• Excellent working knowledge of Linux (Debian) administration

• Production Kubernetes experience

• Extensive knowledge of building, deploying and running Node.JS applications in a cloud environment

• Docker

• Mongo database

• Advanced SQL Admin skills, MySql preferred, with experience of Galera cluster a plus.

• A good understanding of Java is advantageous

• Jenkins

• AWS

• OpenNebula

• Git, SVN

• Knowledge of ITIL v4

Desirable experience :

• Artifactory

• Maven, Ant

• An appreciation of financial services, pensions and investments a plus

For further details please contact Katie Collins.