Required skills
Job description
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
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