[LRUG] [JOBS] FreeAgent recruiting interns, and permanent mid-level and senior roles

[James Bell]

Hi LRUGgers,

Hope you all had happy Hogmanays and an excellent winter break.

At FreeAgent we build web-based accounting software for small
businesses - to put it another way our mission is to put small
businesses in control of their finances. We've been a Rails shop since
we were founded 18 years ago, and have a continuously upgraded
majestic monolith (currently running on Rails 7.2). We're hosted in
AWS, and have recently removed the last vestiges of jQuery from our
codebase. Our frontend story is largely Hotwire: Stimulus controllers
and Turbo sending HTML for our page updates. We've got CSS generated
through SASS, and our HTML (the best programming language) is
generated through ERB templates.

FreeAgent has an office in sunny Edinburgh, where about 50% of our
engineers are based, with the other 50% working full time remote based
around the rest of the UK and Northern Ireland.

We're hiring for a few permanent engineering positions at the moment,
you can see all our jobs at: https://careers.freeagent.com.

Since you good people are likely to be wanting to work remotely:
* we're looking for two permanent mid-level to senior engineers for
two of our product teams.These roles are to work collaboratively with
cross-functional teams, crafting and refining features in Ruby for the
FreeAgent web-app. Depending on your experience, our salary for these
roles are between £39,000 - £74,000, with salary adjustments if you
live in Inner or Outer London. More details here:
https://careers.freeagent.com/en/postings/123db768-453f-49ce-8eaf-252c8afef7e9

* Also remotely: until the end of January, applications for our paid
summer engineering intern positions are open. If you or someone you
know have yet to get paid experience in the industry, these roles are
for you. We don't mind if you're self taught, come from a coding
bootcamp or are studying at university. More details here:
https://careers.freeagent.com/en/postings/518855cf-a59a-46c1-aa38-2826b1e23c8f.
We pay interns £450/a week for 13 weeks, including holidays.

We're not looking for any agency support for these jobs nor are we
looking for contractors at the moment.

If you have any questions about the roles, the company, our our tech
stack. I'm happy to answer them. Remember when replying to me to
remove the mailing list address from the to/cc fields. Don't reply all
unless you mean to!

Here's to the rest of your Januarys, and congratulations on making it
a quarter way through the century. May 2025 treat you all well.

James
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Senior Engineering Manager
FreeAgent