Product Engineer - Full Stack Ruby on Rails

Salary: £50,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in Product Engineering or Software Development
• Experience with modern, established tools such as React, React Native, and Ruby on Rails
• Strong foundations in system architecture, data modelling, security, and performance principles
• Experience working on complex, business-critical systems
• Analytical thinking, including debugging and performance optimisation
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
• Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Confidence presenting, demoing, and engaging with stakeholders regularly
• Curiosity about business operations and what drives value and outcomes
• A product mindset, focused on solving the right problems before building solutions
• Good judgment on when to act autonomously and when to escalate
• Awareness of team and business priorities, and how your work contributes to them

Responsibilities

• Act as the named technology partner for assigned business domains, building trusted stakeholder relationships and providing contextual support
• Attend domain stakeholder team meetings or stand-ups, in person where possible
• Lead assigned workstreams end-to-end: understand the problem, plan the work, and deliver the outcome
• Write technical plans defining how work will be implemented
• Build and maintain the software systems
• Demo work in progress to stakeholders before shipping and take ownership of what is shipped
• Proactively explore solutions to problems by asking the right questions of stakeholders, data, and strategy
• Help stakeholders articulate needs and support the intake process
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation and ensure the domain roadmap is accurate

Technologies

• Support
• Rails
• React
• React Native
• Ruby
• Security
• Fullstack

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We are Rocksteady Music School, the UKs largest rock and pop school, teaching fun and inclusive in-school band lessons to primary-age children. Our mission is to amplify childrens self-belief and remove barriers to music education, and were growing fast across thousands of schools in the UK. Our central office teams in Liphook and Birmingham support our band leaders in reaching as many children as possible. This is a full-time permanent role with 35 hours per week, working 4 days remote and 1 day in-office in Liphook, Hampshire, and we offer benefits including 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, long service pay, free onsite parking, personal development opportunities, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and a comprehensive benefits package. We protect our supportive, small-company culture, value collaboration and problem-solving, and always put children first.

last updated 27 week of 2026