Ruby on Rails Engineer

Location: London, Potters Bar, Bristol or Isle of Man (Hybrid working options available)

Canada Life UK has helped individuals, families and businesses secure their financial futures for over 120 years. We are evolving into a more modern, customer-centric, and engineering-led organisation. As we modernise our IT estate and shifting our focus towards cloud, SaaS/PaaS, and product-centric delivery models, we are creating engineering excellence and empowered teams.

Job Purpose

We are looking for Ruby on Rails Software Engineers to join our Home Finance Product Engineering team, who look after the systems that power our mortgage origination and servicing capabilities.

Why join us?

• Shape the future of Home Finance - Play a pivotal role in evolving our bespoke Ruby on Rails–based mortgage origination and servicing platform, building modern, resilient and scalable solutions critical to our Home Finance business.
• True empowerment and autonomy - You will work in a stream aligned product team with real influence over how we design, build and operate our applications. You’ll collaborate closely with your Engineering Manager, Product Owner and fellow engineers to deliver outcomes that matter.
• Modern engineering focus - Design, build, test, deploy and support software using agile and DevOps practices. You’ll contribute to automation, CI/CD pipelines and continuous improvement of our route to production.

Key Duties/Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy and support features on our Ruby on Rails, MySQL and JavaScript based mortgage platform.
• Participate fully in development activities — writing code, reviewing code and releasing changes into production within your product team.
• Work closely with your Product Owner, Engineering Manager and engineering colleagues to deliver secure, stable and scalable solutions that support Home Finance operations and customer outcomes.
• Apply agile and DevOps practices, balancing build and run responsibilities and improving reliability through automation and better engineering practices.
• Build, configure and support automated CI/CD pipelines across all environments up to and including production.
• Ensure deliverables meet Canada Life engineering standards and best practice, measured through OKRs, KRIs and engineering guardrails.
• Contribute to risk management, security, monitoring and troubleshooting in line with company, regulatory and legal requirements.
• Take ownership of your learning path, continuously building skills that benefit your team and platforms.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Technical

• Ruby on Rails experience building MVC applications and APIs.
• Relational SQL databases (e.g. MySQL), including schema design, performance considerations and effective querying.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including design, analysis, testing, code quality and secure coding.
• Experience designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting software using agile and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
• Understanding of cloud platforms, particularly Azure; experience with GCP is also valuable.
• Awareness of security practices, monitoring and troubleshooting in production environments.

Desirable

• Experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Exposure to containerisation and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in regulated financial services or mortgage origination/administration systems.

How you work

• Strong teamwork, communication and problem solving skills, able to collaborate across cross functional teams.
• Comfortable working within an agile development methodology and contributing to continuous improvement.
• Ability to plan and organise your work, prioritising effectively and taking responsibility for quality and integrity.
• Good judgement in problem solving and decision-making, able to identify root causes and propose pragmatic solutions.
• A mindset of continuous learning and staying up to date with evolving technologies and industry trends.