Senior Ruby Developer - EU Based
Contract Senior Ruby Engineer – (EU Remote) 100% Remote (EU-Based Candidates Only) 12-Month Contract We are supporting a leading organisation in the insurance sector as they scale and modernise their cloud-based core platform. They are looking for an experienced Senior Ruby Engineer to join on a 12-month contract, working fully remotely from anywhere within the EU. Role Overview You’ll be a senior member of an engineering squad building, enhancing, and optimising 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
- 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 EU for compliance and time zone alignment
- Experience in insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries
- Exposure to containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments