Job Title: Senior Ruby Developer

Business Area: Induction Switch/Induction Guidance

Reporting to:  Lead Developer

Location: Flexible, high degree of home-working 

 

Purpose

As a Senior Ruby Developer joining our team, you will play a key role in designing and building both existing and new applications. The role requires that you are comfortable assuming responsibility and autonomy to deliver production-ready code on-time.  You will be responsible for improving scalability and functionality of existing systems by identifying areas for improvement and performance bottlenecks. Additionally, you will actively investigate and promote new technologies and practices and show a willingness to voice opinion and learn.

 

Person Specification:

 

Experience / Attributes

– Able to excel in a fast-moving environment; business and technical requirements can and do change rapidly in our industry.

– Able to troubleshoot complex problems efficiently; we often have to investigate complex issues in a live environment where both speed and safety are paramount.

– Possess excellent communication skills and be able to articulate technical issues clearly and accurately to non-technical members of the team.

– Comfortable working across front-end (10-20%) and back end (80-90%) technology stacks to develop business logic and database layers.

– Able to work with cloud technologies and the use of DevOps tools.

– Enjoy a highly collaborative working approach using an agile based methodology. Our team relies on working efficiently and effectively together, as well as the ability to focus on individual tasks and projects.

– Be comfortable with remote working (we are 100% remote) but still being part of a team. Willing and able to occasionally travel for meetings (COVID restrictions permitting) and team collaboration – typically into Central London.

 

Technical Skills

Essential

– Extensive Ruby on Rails experience

– Extensive testing experience and writing testable code

– Experience in application design / application architecture

– Strong relational database experience (we use Postgres)

– JavaScript

 

Advantageous

– Docker (used in all environments including development)

– AWS experience

– ReactJS

– Redis

– NodeJS

 

 

About Induction Healthcare Group plc

 

 

Our Purpose

‘Digital transformation’ – it’s a priority of nearly all healthcare systems worldwide, and Induction, a leading virtual care platform, is the partner to make change happen. We replace outdated modes of communication between providers and their patients with a next generation digital communication toolkit – and we enable a new flexible future for healthcare.

Our mission is to ‘make healthcare better, anywhere’. We alleviate operational burdens on hospital teams while saving them time, frustration and money. We allow clinical teams to share information, collaborate and navigate channels across disciplines. And we put patients in better control of their own healthcare management. With Induction, providers and patients can choose how and when they receive care, be it virtually, in-person or even via asynchronous text. We unchain staff and patients from the limitations of paper-based and desktop systems.

 

 

Our Platforms

We improve care by delivering products that healthcare professionals, patients and institutions choose to use. Our products enable data to flow between stakeholders and legacy IT systems, adding substantial value to pre-existing health IT investment.

They provide our customers with a powerful set of capabilities that touch most aspects of care coordination and delivery. Our product range is exclusively Software as a service (SaaS), targeting monthly recurring revenue (MRR) growth as a key financial metric:

 

• Induction Switch – an iOS and Android app used by most junior doctors in the NHS. It saves healthcare professionals time by allowing them to bypass the hospital’s switchboard, helping them locate extensions and bleeps quickly and chat securely. Additional features enable the creation of admin-controlled membership groups (TeamSpaces), secure instant messaging and a broadcast newsfeed, providing increased opportunities for engagement with our large user base.

 

• Induction Attend Anywhere – helps hospitals, health systems and other customers offer video consultations to patients and service users as a normal part of day-to-day operations, making it simple, safe and secure to say “yes you can attend your appointment via video”.  Since 1998, Attend Anywhere has collaborated with clinicians and patients, medical colleges, universities, healthcare providers, governments, NGAs, and others to bring the benefits of mainstream video call access to health and care systems, with some Attend Anywhere programs now entering their 21st year with coverage in every country in the United Kingdom – and with 85% market share in England alone. The company’s vision is for video consultations to improve lives and help address social, access, equity and sustainability challenges in healthcare and beyond.

 

• Induction Zesty – a market-leading digital platform for patients visiting hospitals. The platform allows patients to book their appointments, read their appointment and clinical letters, store a local copy of their clinical record, and provide data to their care teams remotely. Alongside a compelling patient experience, the Zesty portal delivers significant cost benefits to hospitals.

 

• Induction Booking – offers NHS Trusts and other healthcare organisations an online booking platform for patients, hospital staff and care home staff.

 

• Induction Guidance – hospitals set clinical guidance locally, typically producing guidelines that are rarely efficiently circulated or adhered to as they are not available at the point of care. Local specialists use the Induction Guidance platform to create, edit and publish structured and governance-controlled guidance and policies. Automated distribution of that guidance to mobile users, combined with local intranet availability, results in a significant increase in guidance consumption, and best of all, a material increase in local guidance adherence.

 

 

Our Customers

Our customers are healthcare institutions, primarily hospitals. As the company grows, we intend to expand our customer base into primary care and community and mental

health services. We have commercial relationships with most of the UK National Health Service (NHS) hospitals.

 

 

Where We Operate

Our principal market is the UK and we have a growing user base in Australia, South Africa and Canada. We intend to leverage this user base to extend our commercial operations internationally. We have recently won a national contract in Mexico, demonstrating a clear example of international growth.

 

 

Our Journey

The history of Induction is one of fast growth, fuelled by inventive solutions for the most common problems that clinicians and patients encounter in secondary care. At our creation in 2019, the immediate uptake of our products validated our promise to remove friction from the most basic but essential tasks.

 

By early 2020, Switch and Guidance gained traction and embedded themselves into several NHS Trusts just in time to be mobilised in the fight against COVID-19. The solutions helped hospitals navigate through unknown territory and adjust to a quickly evolving, and often remote, work environment. Induction Switch was used as a primary communication tool at the NHS Nightingale London – the first of the temporary critical care hospitals constructed during the pandemic. MicroGuide was also selected to support Barts Health NHS Trust in the Nightingale London project with antimicrobial and COVID-19 content. As the pandemic evolved, so too did our support of the NHS. Later in the year, as vaccines became available, Induction platforms helped frontline NHS staff book their own vaccinations and also facilitated delivery of lateral flow tests for COVID-19.

 

2021 saw Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, a Global Digital Exemplar, use Induction Zesty as their patient portal. At the same time, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Trust maximised the number of patients accessing their health records with the platform. Working alongside Apple inc. and Cerner, we have helped to create a direct, encrypted connection between medical institutions and patient’s iPhones, empowering patients – and powering efficiency and decision-making at a clinical level.

 

You can read more about the Induction Group on our website and in the press, via the links below:

 

https://inductionhealthcare.com/

 

https://www.attendanywhere.com/

 

Case Studies – Induction Healthcare Group

 

Press and Awards – Induction Healthcare Group