Senior Ruby Developer

Company: Opus Recruitment Solutions
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Contract Lead Ruby Developer- (UK Remote)

100% Remote (EU-Based Candidates Only)

⏳ 12-Month Contract

Role Overview

You’ll be a senior member of an engineering squad building, enhancing, and optimizing a modern cloud‑native system used across a major insurance operation. This is a hands‑on development role where you’ll contribute to new features, performance improvements, integrations, and architectural evolution within a high‑performing engineering culture.

What You’ll Be Working On

  • Developing and maintaining backend services using Ruby / Ruby on Rails
  • Building scalable, maintainable components within a cloud‑native architecture
  • Collaborating with product, cloud, and DevOps teams to deliver high‑impact functionality
  • Contributing to technical decisions, best practices, and code quality improvements
  • Integrating third‑party services and APIs within a complex insurance environment
  • Supporting ongoing migration, modernisation, and cloud optimisation initiatives

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong commercial experience as a Senior Ruby or Ruby on Rails Engineer
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud‑based application design
  • Extensive hands‑on experience with AWS
  • Solid background in building scalable APIs, microservices, and backend systems
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps tooling, and modern cloud workflows
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to operate within a cross‑functional, remote team
  • Must be based within the UK for compliance and time zone alignment

Nice to Have

  • Experience in insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries
  • Exposure to containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
  • Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments

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Posted: March 27th, 2026