Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer (DRWN)

Project overview

Job title - Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Client Location - United Kingdom (remote, nearshore)

Remote work offering - 100%

Client Industry - Public Sector

Contract Length - 6 months

Contract type - Freelance (B2B)

Project focus

You'll join a Ruby on Rails delivery team building and enhancing digital services for a UK public sector client. The focus is core Rails feature delivery: building REST APIs, managing PostgreSQL data changes and migrations, implementing background processing and keeping quality high through well-tested code.

Key skills and Experience required

If this role is of interest, please apply with an updated CV.

Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

• 5+ years' commercial experience with Ruby, primarily on Ruby on Rails applications
• Strong PostgreSQL experience, including writing and managing safe migrations
• Designing and building REST APIs
• Background job processing (e.g. Sidekiq, Active Job or similar)
• Writing thorough automated tests with RSpec
• Comfortable working independently within an agile, remote delivery team
• Experience delivering for UK public sector clients is highly desirable
• Must be based in Portugal, Poland or Romania

Project details

• Start: date 11/2026
• Duration: 6 months
• Remote: remote
• Location: Bournemouth, United Kingdom, GB