We’re looking for a talented, experienced, software engineers to join our Engineering team and help us on our mission to democratise accounting for small businesses across the world!

FreeAgent is one of the leading online accounting platforms in the UK with 40,000 delighted customers and continued fast growth. You’ll be working with some of the smartest engineers around, collaborating on new features and taking a leading role in solving the technical challenges that come with building a hugely popular web application, in a scalable, performant, and elegant way.

Areas of experience that are valuable in this role

• Building and maintaining large, high-scale web apps in production environments

• Ruby on Rails

• Competence in Javascript and front-end frameworks, ideally React

• Solid experience with MySQL, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, ideally at scale

• Comfortable diagnosing performance issues deep down in the stack

• Well read, strong in CS and OO fundamentals

• BSc/Masters degree in CompSci or equivalent

• Leadership skills, line management experience (optional but desirable)

Work environment This is a full time position based in our lovely office in the West End of Edinburgh. We offer a relocation package and Edinburgh is a fantastic place to live. It hasa vibrant tech scene,the world’s largest arts festival, it has even beenvoted the best place in the UK to live for the past two years. What’s not to like?

We offer shiny Apple gear, paid international conference visits, regular company hack days, free snacks and drinks as well as a catered team lunch each Friday.

If you’re interested, drop us a line with some examples of your work (Github etc) and tell us why you want to join our team!

You can find out more about our team on ourEngineering Blog.