Ruby on Rails Developer

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment

Job Ref:

BIT005548/Sam

Date posted:

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Location:

Cape Town, South Africa

SUMMARY:

Join a missionâdriven tech company building powerful registration, tracking, and recovery platforms working across back-end, front-end, and DevOps!

POSITION INFO:
Our client is looking for a Full Stack Ruby Developer who enjoys owning the full development lifecycle. You’ll build features, optimise systems, improve deployments, and contribute to both their web and mobile products.

You’ll work closely with the CTO and product team, shaping their technology as they continue to scale. If you have experience with Ruby on Rails and AWS, plus an interest in React Native, you’ll thrive here.

Responsibilities:

Build and maintain clean, reliable, scalable code in Ruby on Rails
Manage and improve AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, Ubuntu, Nginx, Redis, and Aurora Postgres)
Enhance deployment workflows and operational systems following DevOps principles
Contribute to the mobile app using React Native (an advantage, not a must)
Diagnose performance issues, bottlenecks, and bugs — and implement effective solutions
Collaborate with product and design teams to ship new features

Requirements:

Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer
Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails and key libraries (Devise, Omniauth, and RSpec)
Solid AWS experience across common services
Front-end experience (HTML, JavaScript, and CSS) and frameworks (React/React Native)
Understanding of scalable application architecture
Ability to implement automated testing and unit tests

Apply now!

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I also specialise in recruiting in the following:

Software Developers/Engineers/Architects
Data Analytics Specialists
PM/BA/Scrum Masters
DevOps and Infrastructure Experts

If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions.

For more information contact:
Samkelisiwe Makhanye
Recruitment Consultant

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