Hybrid Ruby on Rails Developer - Public Sector

Darwin Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Darwin Recruitment is partnering with a UK public sector organisation to hire a Ruby on Rails Developer in London. The role is hybrid, offering 80% remote work with 1 day per week on site in London.

You will develop features on established Rails applications and help modernise services while ensuring accessibility and security in line with the Service Standard. The contract is 12 months (extendable to 36 months) inside IR-35, with UK-based eligibility and BPSS checks.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Ruby on Rails development experience (Rails 7+).
• TDD with RSpec or Minitest; Capybara for feature tests is a plus.
• PostgreSQL, ActiveRecord and data modelling incl. migrations from legacy sources.
• Building and consuming RESTful APIs and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Develop new features on Ruby on Rails applications.
• Migrate data and functionality from legacy systems.
• Deliver accessible, secure services in line with the gov Service Standard.
• Work in an agile, multidisciplinary team and participate in discovery to live phases.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Test-driven development

RESTful APIs

Data modelling

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

AWS

Job description

Darwin Recruitment is partnering with a UK public sector organisation to hire a Ruby on Rails Developer in London. The role is hybrid, offering 80% remote work with 1 day per week on site in London.

You will develop features on established Rails applications and help modernise services while ensuring accessibility and security in line with the Service Standard. The contract is 12 months (extendable to 36 months) inside IR-35, with UK-based eligibility and BPSS checks.