Senior Ruby Backend Software Engineer

Karnov Group offers a key role in developing and building our content products effectively and with confidence.

As our new backend developer, you will join our Development division, consisting of four dedicated agile development teams. Our applications are mainly written utilising Ruby in the backend with a React frontend, most are hosted using Docker on the Google Cloud platform. Projects are undertaken by small agile teams in collaboration with the Authors and Products Division securing that our customers have relevant and updated content at hand 24/7. There’s a healthy mix of new greenfield work, as well as improvement of our legacy applications.

The role
You will be joining our Content Development team responsible for developing and maintaining our backend systems and processes such as cms systems, editorial production line systems, content harvesting, processing and enrichment systems collaborating with your peers performing code reviews and pair programming. Writing high quality code with good test coverage. Implementation across portfolio as well as being a team player with an agile mind-set defines you in your daily work. You are passionate about software development, content structure and metadata and strive for the best way forward to optimize and refine processes and methodologies.

Your skills
We expect you are proficient in Ruby and that you write tidy and solid code. We ensure code readability among projects through automatic code linting. Testing is built into the work you do. Pair coding is something we encourage. Experience and knowledge of JavaScript, xslt, xml is considered as a merit. Experience of working with content aimed for professional use is considered as a merit.

This is what you bring
To be successful in the role, you will bring an engineer’s approach to problem- and solution solving methodologies. Experience in processing media neutral content for professionals to be published through various end points is perceived as an advantage. It is a prerequisite that you are a solid practitioner of Test-Driven-Development, as well as you are a proficient and thoughtful programmer with excellent skills. Lastly, great skills within communication and collaboration is an advantage as Karnov Group advocates such culture.

A great job with great opportunities
Karnov Group takes pride in our friendly, inclusive and supportive environment where we inspire one another to be as good as possible. We consider ourselves to be open and direct. Knowledge sharing and discussion is highly valued and encouraged. Karnov Group values diversity; currently we are more than 14 nationalities in our team, and we would be happy to have even more countries represented.

We offer a position in an ambitious company with great opportunities for professional and personal development with an attractive salary package, great flexibility and also opportunities for further education and courses.

You will have very high skilled colleagues working in a dynamic environment. We believe in close collaboration across the entire business to serve our customers every day. We take pride in acting as role models to always walk the talk and getting things done.

The position can be located in either Stockholm or Copenhagen.

This is how you proceed
If you want to know more about the role or who we are, you are welcome to contact Head of Group Content Development Thomas Amble, +46 70 665 94 15.

We aim to fill the position as soon as possible and will evaluate applications as they arrive. We are looking forward to receiving your CV and cover letter.

About Karnov Group
Karnov Group is a leading provider of mission critical information in the areas of legal, tax and accounting, and environmental, health and safety in Denmark and Sweden. With brands such as Karnov, Norstedts Juridik, VJS, Notisum, Change Board Member, Legal Cross Border, Forlaget Andersen and LexNordics, Karnov Group delivers knowledge and insights, enabling more than 80.000 users to make better decisions, faster - every day. With offices in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Malmö, Karnov Group employs around 280 people.