Hi 👋🏽

We’re Ratio. We make software and websites. Our main thing is building price comparison technology for the personal finance market. We also run a price comparison website called Choose Wisely. And, we’re incubating something new 🚀.

We believe in simplicity, intuitive design, learning new things, bacon, fonts, family, personalisation, leopard print, gaffer tape, ergonomics, new technology, cake, fluorescent colours, functional aesthetics, pink (a lot of pink), sunsets, minimalism, getting messy, beards, new shoes, working hard, messing about, ASOS deliveries, sunday roasts, bright red lipstick, WD40, opening experiences, whiteboards, spinning, Post-it notes, real time dashboards, and acoustic versions of powerful pop songs.

We use some pretty cutting edge technologies and we’re looking for 1 or 2 talented Graduate Software Engineers to train up in them.

Engineering at Ratio

You’ll work from our studio, situated in the heart of Bournemouth’s business district. You’ll be part of our engineering team working as part of the wider product team of engineers, designers and product people. You’ll start by learning the ropes and get to practise your newly developed skills solving support problems within our established softwares. Once you've found your feet, you'll move on to conceiving and building greenfield technical solutions to real life problems experienced by the tens of thousands of consumers who use our products each day. Our engineering principles give a good feel for how we work together and what we value. Your Mondays won’t suck. Your Fridays will feel well-earned.

You’ll fit in really well if you...

🚴🏻‍♂️are an independent self starter, an active learner and capable of driving your own development 👷🏾‍♂️want to build things which are genuinely useful to end users, using contemporary technologies
💁🏻‍♀️ care about the quality of things you build and are meticulous in your attention to detail
🕵🏿‍♀️ are curious about new technologies and pragmatic about getting things done
🎓 want to be part of a team who have a desire to learn and improve
👾 want to contribute to a strong engineering culture

Benefits

• Regular socials
• Your birthday off
• Competitive Salary
• Contributory pension
• 08:00 - 16:00 working day
• Free cake, bacon, beer, gin, wine
• Collaborative working environment
• MacBooks, monitors, quality chairs, and whatever else you need to get your job done

Our stack

Backend: MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Node, Redis, PostgreSQL
Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Linux
Frontend: React, Redux, Laravel
Languages: Go, PHP